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Home for the holidays, sadly All they want for Christmas is a job. 8 UNEMPLOYMENT | David Blanchette December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 1 OPINION It is time to Stocking stuffers show our There’s something for everyone resilience UPON FURTHER REVIEW | Bruce Rushton GUESTWORK | Lee H. Hamilton
It’s Christmas Eve, and I know what you’re thinking. If you pay attention to global affairs, Too late. Santa’s departed, the post you know that increasing numbers of office is closed, Victoria’s Secret has left the people believe U.S. leadership in the building and you’re out of Amazon points. world is coming to an end and the West But always remember: It’s the thought that more broadly is being eclipsed. I think counts. And so here are some gift ideas for these predictions are exaggerated, but those who matter most. they are not without some basis. Our challenges have grown. It is time for us The Springfield Park District: Praise. to re-establish ourselves by showing our More than ever, parks have been sanctuaries, capacity for change and adaptation. and they’ve looked immaculate despite The biggest external challenge everything. we face is the rise of China and the competition it offers to the democratic The Springfield City Council: Ambien. model. It is not just that its wealth, Long meetings were bad enough before military power and leverage around pandemic forced folks to breathe on each the world have all grown. It is also other while listening to the usual. that China has had an astonishing rise, pulling millions of people out City Water, Light and Power: A lump of of poverty, drawing attention for coal to keep lights on. its innovation and infrastructure development, and building one of the Illinois Republicans: Someone better than world’s leading economies. Bruce Rauner in 2022 and straight faces Gov. JB Pritzker: Thirty-six hours to a day. He’ll Restaurants with multiple tickets for This is an important point. You do while they watch Democrats implode. need it during the coming legislative session. coronavirus-related violations: Footage of not build prestige abroad by collapsing hospitalized COVID patients streamed into at home. You cannot separate domestic Bureaucrats: Longer lunch breaks so they’ll Tim Timoney: Decorum. dining rooms. and foreign policy, especially when have something other than coronavirus to you are the U.S. The world pays close blame for stuff not getting done. Justin Fowler: A Pulitzer Prize. Sangamon County Department of Public attention to how we deal with internal Health: Backbone to shut down repeat problems, and our actions within The homeless: Steel Reserve for the thirsty The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library scofflaws and keep ’em shut down until we’ve our borders profoundly affect our and a shot for those ready to move on. and Museum: A director who’ll last longer all been vaccinated. standing and leverage as we assert global than three years and won’t embarrass the leadership. White Oaks Mall: An all-you-can-eat buffet place. Restaurants that followed the rules: More So how do we reenergize our global in a supersized food court for coming hordes business than they can handle when this is role? We begin at home, by bringing the of state employees. Adam Lopez: A solid trial date, because this over. pandemic under control, reinvigorating has gone on long enough. Oh, wait: That’s our own economy and recommitting Economic development efforts: $1 billion, what we got him last year. Ward 2 Ald. Shawn “I Never Said That” to the rule of law, to basic, long- because hundreds of thousands of dollars Gregory: A rifle plus membership to a gun established democratic processes and to hasn’t been enough. Springfield School District 186:A real first club so that he might learn to shoot straight. the core values of justice, fairness and day of school. opportunity for all our citizens. Michael Madigan: A tenured professorship Illinois cannabis industry: Owners who Then we need to return to the at the Harry Houdini College of Impossible St. John’s Hospital and Memorial Medical aren’t white. basics, which have taken a beating in Escapes Center: Less coronavirus. recent years. We built our preeminence Architects of Illinois’ pot legalization law: by using an international approach New jobs. during the post-WWII period, working skillfully with European and other allies Editor’s note Mister Rogers: Reincarnation. The world, to lead the West. If we try to lead by where so many have acted like children, could ourselves, the task is far more difficult than if we join with European allies, Here’s gratitude for Illinois Times making it through another year, and for all who helped IT do so use his wisdom now. 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2 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 OPINION Too late for a tax increase now POLITICS | Rich Miller
“What if” games are never quite accurate, of hand. Bruce Rauner’s attempt to wipe painted the 2020 constitutional amendment but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Gov. AFSCME out of existence backfired so vote as a very real and substantial income JB Pritzker had the opportunity -- and most badly that the union has been strengthened tax cut for 97% of the populace instead of probably, the votes -- to balance the state budget to the point where even asking for minor the few dollars he ended up promising. with an income tax hike during 2019, his concessions is beyond difficult. Also, the governor said that he’ll need honeymoon year with the General Assembly. The governor pointed to the failure the General Assembly’s cooperation to make Instead, the governor came into office of his Fair Tax proposal as a big reason more cuts than the $711 million he outlined. and proposed what was essentially a pension for the need to make cuts, and AFSCME That’s not totally true. Under Rauner, the payment holiday and other magic budgetary countered by saying it was also all-in vast majority of the state’s budget was put on solutions. on the graduated income tax. But while auto-pilot, either by statute or by judges. A I was told in early 2019 by a high-level Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden big chunk of that money falls under various administration figure with influence over lost Sangamon County to President Donald consent decrees entered into by the state. the budget that the Pritzker administration Trump by just 4.3 percentage points (way The administration could attempt to change would not take the easy route of raising taxes down from Trump’s 9-point winning margin those consent decrees without any help from and wanted to instead focus on the hard in 2016), the Fair Fax lost AFSCME’s home- the legislature. But doing so would bring choices. base county by a whopping 26 points. enormous heat on the governor because But hiking the flat tax to balance the Heckuva job. those consent decrees involve things like budget ahead of a hoped-for 2020 change We can’t go back and change history minimum funding and staffing levels for the to the state constitution to allow for a and it’s often maddening to engage in the state’s care of children. graduated income tax would not have been exercise. But, if the governor had just done I’m only writing this now because when the easy route. A pension holiday was the the responsible thing in 2019 and used a I laid out this very scenario in an early 2019 easiest route he could’ve possibly taken. flat tax hike to balance the budget when he meeting with that high-level Pritzker person There was nothing hard about that, except could’ve drawn on an almost infinitely deep who has significant budget influence, I was for convincing legislators that shorting the well of goodwill among his super-majority laughed at and waved off with “We’re not pension funds was the right thing to do. legislature, we wouldn’t be in nearly this taking the easy way out with a tax increase, Pritzker’s budget was eventually saved mess right now. And he could’ve then Rich.” by an unexpected tax receipt boost in the spring which eliminated the immediate need 1240 S. 6th, Springfield, IL 62703 for a pension holiday, budget cuts or a new PO Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705 revenue infusion. 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December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 3 OPINION It is time to show our resilience continued from page 3
opposing corruption and abuse of human rights – to a prominent role in our foreign policy. Effective foreign policy requires a lot of components, but the moral dimension is key to making our leadership more attractive and more potent. Obviously, American military power is part of our strength. People pay attention to us in no small part because of that power. But they also pay attention because of our willingness to work with others. In order to enhance our appeal, we need a well- functioning national security system with expanded arms control agreements. We have to counter Iran wherever and whenever possible – in a manner that does not risk war in the Middle East. And we must identify and oppose the world’s bad actors by exposing their weaknesses, corruption and dictatorial tendencies. We need to lead the fight on climate LETTERS staff members have to live owners downtown. Pandemics change. All the other issues we face are Christmas poem # 15 We welcome letters. Please include in a crowded environment. may become more frequent important, but this one is existential, and we your full name, address and telephone The virus is surging through with climate change, just like do not have much time to get it right. my daughter Damaris wrote this note number. We edit all letters. Send them Finally, to help the U.S. revitalize its to [email protected]. the prisons. So why aren’t other natural disasters. HVAC to her grandparents when she was 25. they next? I can just hear the improvements now can help place in the world, we will need strong, I found it saved in my parents’ papers. “holier than thou” saying mitigate current and future capable, realistic and professional officials Damaris – ever loved as she was loving – they don’t deserve it. After all, disease transmission inside filling the key roles. That is true in the thought of daily but more so holidays – ! PRIORITIZING VACCINES they committed crimes. But crowded shops, restaurants intelligence community – where unbiased left this life by her own hand in 2010. My daughter texted me who among us hasn’t done and bars, and reduce customer and clear-eyed knowledge of events and with the news that people something bad? I recently got resistance to patronage. other leaders is vital if we are to navigate “Happy Yule 1978! over the age of 75 are in the course of events and work with (or Dear Gram and Gramp, a warning for not stopping at John Sanford the next group to receive against) world leaders. And it is true in I want to send my best wishes a stop sign, and while in high Springfield the COVID vaccine, and for the season and tell you again school I stole a pen from the diplomacy, economics, the national security I fall into this category. that I love you both. I’m thinking dime store. BYE BERNIE apparatus and elsewhere, where depth, However, I am in good health, that I’ve seen the farm in a good Give a prisoner my shot. I was a correspondent for the knowledge and expertise are vital. We have thanks to my primary care many seasons and weathers now; Sarah H. Thomas State Journal-Register (“Bye bye become less respected for our competence, physician, my cardiologist the beautiful mountain ash, the hay, Springfield Bernie,” Dec. 10). I remember professionalism and skill over the last four birds on the feeder, alfalfa and corn, and my rheumatologist. My when they rearranged the years and, while experts can sometimes the falling snow, the placid pond. pacemaker is good for seven NEW HVAC NEEDED become too narrowly focused, highly How wonderful to share this place newsroom and put Bernie more years. The last shot I Downtown Springfield (Schoenburg)’s desk away regarded representatives abroad can be and these seasons with you. got in my right knee is still among the biggest assets we deploy. See you soon! has many restaurants, bars from the main hallway. His working. I can tell what day It used to be that, in any international Your granddaughter Demi” and shops located in older desk area was amazing. I it is by checking my pill buildings with HVAC systems would just stop and stare. But forum, it was almost instinctive to turn to 2020 Jacqueline Jackson container with the days of the that are more difficult to his brilliance and dedication the U.S. for leadership: the first question week on it. modernize and implement will be missed, I’m certain. on the minds of allies was what the U.S. I am retired. I don’t to meet national standards, Brenda Protz thought and planned to do. That is less often have to leave my home. So particularly to help prevent Via Facebook.com/illinoistimes the case, and I do not think the world is why should I be in the next transmission of COVID-19. better off as a result. We have a lot of work group to get the vaccine? Customers would be more JUST THE FACTS to do to reassert our leadership, starting with I would like to go back to comfortable if HVAC Another good Bruce Rushton strengthening our own democracy. my “essential” activities like systems were improved with column with which I happen playing tennis and bridge, commercial air filters for to agree (“A-twitter over Lee Hamilton is a senior adviser for the going to meetings and doing virus removal, outside air Twitter,” Dec. 17). Even when Indiana University Center on Representative volunteer work. But I can exchange and effective internal I (frequently) don’t, he writes Government; a Distinguished Scholar at the tough it out. circulation to purify air more like adults did at one time. Or IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and However, there is a group quickly. as he so precisely put it, very International Studies; and a Professor of that desperately needs the This will be expensive, but few adjectives and adverbs. 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4 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 NEWS A shot of hope First vaccines arrive in Springfield HEALTH | Rachel Otwell
Medical professionals on the frontlines were some of the first to get inoculated for COVID-19 in Springfield last week. St. John’s was designated by the state as the regional coordinating center for “Region Three” in west-central Illinois. The first doses were given Dec. 16. St. John’s received a shipment of vaccines to distribute to several hospitals, including ones in Jacksonville and Taylorville. Memorial Medical Center in Springfield was not allotted initial doses of the vaccine, but – according to news reports – St. John’s chose to split its own allotment of 705 doses with Memorial, the capital city’s other major hospital. “The doses were administered to clinical colleagues providing direct patient care, all of whom voluntarily Solving the preschool puzzle consented to receive the vaccine. At this time, Hospital Sisters Health System State commission will recommend funding and other changes (HSHS) is not requiring its colleagues EDUCATION | to receive the vaccination, although they Rachel Otwell are recommending colleagues receive the vaccine when it is available to them,” according to a news release from St. Is a new state agency on the horizon? central theme,” Manar said. of Child and Family Services all play a role John’s. It’s at least a possibility. The Illinois In addition to a needed change in the in child care and preschool funding and According to NPR Illinois, both Commission on Equitable Early Childhood way preschool is funded, making the early oversight. In other states with a standalone St. John’s and Memorial plan to utilize Education and Care Funding is set to childhood system less complex overall has agency dedicated to early childhood, there’s additional doses from the vials of the release its recommendations in March. The been a “central theme” of the commission, “a clear champion, someone whose job is Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, as a result of commission, created by Gov. JB Pritzker in said Manar. An anticipated recommendation relentlessly, tirelessly, to focus on that birth- the Centers for Disease Control and Food December 2019, is charged with establishing of the commission will be to combine to-five piece of the puzzle,” said Steans. and Drug Administration approving a funding plans that would “provide equitable current programs administered by the “The system is horribly complex today,” sixth and even seventh dose out of vials access to high-quality early childhood state “under one umbrella,” he said. The said Manar. It’s a “puzzle” of for-profit originally thought to only contain five. education and care services for all children recommendations will not be binding, and and nonprofit providers and “a patchwork Dr. Prashant Jagtap, St. John’s birth to age five.” whether that umbrella is an existing agency of programs that have, in many respects, Hospital medical director of critical care, One theme has been how best to blend or a new one, and whether it comes to pass different goals and different outcomes.” was one of the first to receive the vaccine funding streams and child care and early at all, remains to be seen. From the commission, he said, “There in Springfield. “We are so grateful to childhood education programs administered What is known is that quality preschool will be some recommendations that have the vaccine available to our frontline by the state. education leads to better lifelong learning can be implemented rather quickly by colleagues,” he said in a news release. “Our system of early childhood education outcomes, and even better health. But rural the administration without a change in “Vaccinations give us an additional tool and care in Illinois has never prioritized and impoverished areas often lack affordable, state law. And then there will be heftier to help our colleagues stay healthy to equity,” said state Sen. Andy Manar, who licensed options. recommendations that undoubtedly will serve our patients as we continue to battle co-chairs the commission. The Democrat Robin Steans is president of Advance spark vigorous debate in front of the this pandemic in our hospital.” from Bunker Hill led an overhaul of the Illinois, a nonpartisan state education legislature – that will require legislative According to St. John’s, it will still state’s funding formula for K-12 education, advocacy organization. She’s a member of action.” be several months before the vaccine is which resulted in the Evidence-Based the state’s early childhood commission, Meanwhile, “It is going to be very accessible more broadly “to all members Funding Formula, signed into law in 2017. which met Dec. 10. Steans echoed that difficult to invest major sums” of new money of our communities.” The hospital and It’s meant to send more state money to while equitable funding is a top priority, in the coming budget year, said Manar. other medical experts stress that the under-resourced school districts, all of which the subsequent question is how it can best Budget cuts loom as a result of the pandemic pandemic is not yet over. People still need largely rely on property taxes. be distributed. She presented the idea of – with additional cuts due to the failure of to be vigilant about social distancing, Is preschool in need of similar treatment? a centralizing efforts into a single early the so-called Fair Tax amendment Pritzker hand washing and wearing masks to help “Yes. Now, we have to recognize up-front childhood agency. spearheaded. stem the spread of infection. that the systems are very, very different. But Currently, the Illinois State Board of the idea that money has to be prioritized Education, the Illinois Department of Contact Rachel Otwell at Contact Rachel Otwell at in communities that need it the most is a Human Services and the Illinois Department [email protected]. [email protected].
December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 5 NEWS City accused of Bailing out Prosecutors making it tougher to get out of jail, lawyers say discrimination CRIMINAL JUSTICE | Bruce Rushton Former Springfield public library employee cites lack of inclusive insurance Sangamon County prosecutors have time, would have one client with a proof of increased the number of petitions filed that funds petition. EQUITY | Rachel Otwell require defendants to prove that sources of “I’ve never seen them invoked with the bail money are legitimate before they can be volume and frequency that we’ve seen in released from jail, courthouse insiders say. 2020,” Wykoff said. “It used to be the rare The city of Springfield is again accused of Times, there is currently a limitation in As of last Friday, 42 of 365 inmates had occurrence. Now it’s becoming the norm – discriminating against LGBTQ employees. coverage “except where required by law” for petitions on sources of bail filed in their it’s the new normal.” Former city library employee Kate Holt, a “sex transformation and hormones related to cases. The petitions mean that inmates Petitions don’t necessarily result in judges transgender woman, claims the city violated such treatment.” must either get approval from judges before getting involved. Wykoff said prosecutors state law by refusing to cover her medical “The Illinois Human Rights Act they can be released on bond or convince recently withdrew a petition when the expenses related to gender transition. prohibits discrimination on the basis of prosecutors to drop petitions by showing that mother of a client demonstrated that she had Transgender people have a variety of gender identity, which would be the most their cash is clean. money in a savings account and the client’s ways to go about transitioning. Some, like relevant statute that this policy contradicts,” Thirty-five of the 42 inmates with father, who got a cash advance on a credit Holt, regularly take hormonal treatments via Pierceson said, noting there are other state petitions are African-Americans. All but card, showed that he was employed. shots or pills. Holt started a job at the city and federal laws that the policy not to cover seven of the petitions were filed against Defendants who’ve had petitions filed library in February 2020. “My prescriptions gender transition treatment also potentially defendants booked this year – the jail on in their cases by county prosecutors include were excluded from insurance,” said Holt violates. Friday held 274 inmates arrested in 2020 defendants charged with gun offenses, drug in a post on the website for the American “There’s a history of the city of and 91 arrested in prior years. The sheriff’s crimes, murder and theft. Former Springfield Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. “They were Springfield discriminating against its office says it doesn’t have records showing School Board President Adam Lopez, arrested excluded not because they were exotic or LGBTQ employees,” Pierceson said, how many inmates had petitions a year ago, in 2018 and accused of bilking people out of unreasonably expensive. My medications referencing how in 2012 the city held that but lawyers and others who make livings in nearly $1 million, has a petition filed in his are common and covered for other medical civil union partners of employees would the courthouse say that prosecutors are filing case – he’s charged with financial exploitation conditions. I had already taken them under not be eligible for insurance benefits. “The more petitions than in the past. of the elderly. a physician’s care for more than two years question is why this continues to happen.” “They only really use it against these Also, there is Derrick Bailey, 19, who without any problem. And the medications In 2015, ACLU of Illinois raised the young Black guys,” says Lindsay Evans, who remained in jail as of Tuesday awaiting are covered for transgender people by other issue over insurance coverage for transgender was a Sangamon County public defender a hearing on whether he can be released insurance plans, including our statewide employees with the city of Chicago, after for 13 years before resigning last spring. after posting $10,000 bond on Dec. 5. Medicaid system.” an employee there was also denied health “If a known gang member is selling drugs, He’s charged with possessing a weapon Holt claims she had sought coverage insurance benefits for transition-related they almost always use it if they think the without having a state Firearms Owner for the medication she took for gender health care. That resulted in a change of person is going to post (bond).” Cautioning Identification card. Arrested on Dec. 1 dysphoria over the course of several policy, and city of Chicago employees that her client pool, being deemed indigent, by Springfield police, Bailey got busted months in 2020. Gender dysphoria is are now covered for gender reassignment may not have been representative of the jail last February by Bloomington police who the clinical designation of the feeling that services, including surgical intervention. population, Evans said that she typically served a search warrant and found cocaine, one’s gender identity does not match the The Human Rights Campaign, a would have one client with a petition out of methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana sex they were assigned at birth. In June, national LGBTQ advocacy group and 60 or so clients in jail. in addition to four guns, one that had been the city’s Joint Labor/Management Health lobbying organization, rates cities across the “It was rare, which was a good thing,” stolen – the drugs, police estimated, were Care Committee denied Holt’s request for country for its Municipal Equality Index. Of said Evans, who criticized the Sangamon worth $25,000. Charged with seven drug prescription coverage and said no change the nine Illinois cities it rated for 2020, only County legal system as skewed against the offenses in McLean County, Bailey was free would be made, according to the ACLU Chicago and Peoria earned points for having disadvantaged when she resigned after being on $10,000 bond when he was arrested in of Illinois, which assisted Holt in filing transgender-inclusive health insurance passed over to become head of the public Springfield. the charge with the Illinois Department benefits. defender’s office. “To hear that there’s 40 Dan Fultz, Bailey’s lawyer, said that his of Human Rights in November. City Holt no longer works for the city, pending, that’s a policy change.” client qualifies for release. “Everybody has spokesperson Julia Frevert said via email having left her position in November. But Not so, says Sangamon County State’s a right to bond as long as they meet the that the city “has not received a copy of the Josh Blecher-Cohen, a legal fellow with Attorney Dan Wright. And race, the county’s statutory requirements,” Fultz said. He complaint” and once it does, it “will review ACLU of Illinois, said Springfield now has top prosecutor said, plays no role. also said that an increase in petition filings and provide a proper legal response.” the opportunity to take a step in a more “There’s been no change in policy – there’s began five or six months ago, but he couldn’t Professor Jason Pierceson teaches political inclusive direction and set a new precedent. been no change in the way we evaluate cases quantify the increase. science at University of Illinois Springfield, “Because the policy in Springfield’s based upon unique facts that never include “I can’t pinpoint it, but I know they’ve with a focus on the intersection of law, insurance plan is so broad and categorically where someone happens to be of a certain been on the rise,” Fultz said. “You used to public policy and the LGBTQ community. denies transition-related health care to any race,” Wright said. “We file source of funds see it just mainly in drug cases, where they In 2012, he advocated that the city expand employee, a victory here would ensure that motions based upon the facts, not upon any may be using the profits of an illegal drug its medical insurance coverage to include all trans employees of the city – present and immutable characteristics of a defendant.” enterprise to post bond. We’re starting to see partners of those in same-sex relationships future – would have access to the health care Mark Wykoff, a defense attorney, says that it more in violent crimes.” in order to comply with state law – a move that they need.” he has six clients with pending proof of funds the city ultimately took. Meanwhile, in a petitions filed in their cases. Prior to this year, Contact Bruce Rushton at city health benefit plan reviewed by Illinois Contact Rachel Otwell at [email protected]. Wykoff said that he typically, at any given [email protected].
6 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 work. “Every month has a holiday,” the doctor said. “I Mayor, county clash on COVID understand the logic of why the mayor picked the number of Jan. 12. But it was a date. We’re going PUBLIC HEALTH | Bruce Rushton to go by the numbers as opposed to the calendar.” On Saturday, Dec. 19, about 100 people Sangamon County Board Chairman Andy phone call seeking clarification on whether he has Sangamon County Department of Public Health gathered outside the governor’s mansion to protest Van Meter says that he doesn’t understand why abandoned the Jan. 12 target date. told Sam Madonia, a local radio host, on Dec. 21. state orders shutting down bars and restaurants. Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder set a Jan. 12 That indoor dining, once restarted, wouldn’t “It just wasn’t possible to stay open because there Several politicians, including Ward 1 Ald. Chuck date to reinstitute indoor dining in restaurants. be shut down again came as news to Van Meter, were cases all over the place.” It was impossible, Redpath and Ward 10 Ald. Ralph Hanauer, state “I know nothing about Jan. 12 – I don’t where who said that decisions on when to allow indoor Graham said, to determine whether indoor dining Rep. Mike Murphy, R-Springfield, and state Sen. the mayor got this Jan. 12 date,” Van Meter said. “I dining and whether to shut down indoor dining, with safeguards would be safe because too many Steve McClure, R-Springfield, spoke in support really have no idea.” once it restarts, will be made based on the number people didn’t follow rules. “There were parameters of reopening bars and restaurants at the rally In setting the Jan. 12 date last week, Langfelder of people who test positive, the availability of to follow that weren’t being followed,” Graham told organized by the Central Illinois Licensed Beverage told reporters that’s when any spike in infections intensive care unit beds and the stability of such Madonia. “One of the key ones was separation of Association. caused by holiday gatherings should subside. He numbers. people when they came into the restaurant, staying Hanauer, who has criticized the city and county also noted that Springfield School District 186 “That’s common sense,” the county board six feet apart.” for acting on anonymous complaints against plans to resume some in-classroom instruction on chairman said. Last week, Dr. Brian Miller, president of the businesses that violate public health directives that date. The mayor’s email and Van Meter’s comments county health board, told Madonia that the health aimed at controlling the pandemic, downplayed In a Dec. 21 email to city council members, came two days after authorities in Great Britain department closed bars and ended indoor dining the seriousness of violations and urged the crowd Langfelder did not state a date when restaurants announced lockdown measures in response to a in November because authorities had no way of not to complain about businesses that break the will be allowed to restart indoor dining, but he new strain of coronavirus said to be 70% more stopping private gatherings and hospital beds were rules. suggested that Jan. 12 may not be firm. contagious than prior strains. filling up. “With the numbers being what they "We're close to getting you guys open," “Once a decision is made by the (Sangamon While there’s no proof that closing down bars were, if we could just decrease that number by 10 Hanauer told the crowd. "We're close, but you've County) Department of Public Health to resume and restaurants in Sangamon County has curbed or 15 percent – we needed to get through that eye got to stay united. There are enough people indoor dining, with restrictions, the city will follow the pandemic, Van Meter noted a correlation: The of the needle, because it was tight,” Miller told working against you that are going around and the same guidelines,” Langfelder wrote. “Since infection rate went down after local authorities, Madonia. “By doing that, we possibly avoided a turning people in for bogus rule violations — most we are in the ninth month of dealing with the after initially resisting a gubernatorial directive, major catastrophe.” of them, they're not even violations, they're turning coronavirus and vaccinations are emerging, we shut down bars and restaurants last month. While it’s possible that indoor dining might you in because they see a couple cars in the will continue to allow indoor dining so there is no “Unfortunately, it was clear that there was a resume shortly after Christmas, Miller told parking lot. But you guys have got to stay united ‘yo-yo’ impact with closing and opening indoor wave that was almost approaching a tidal wave Madonia that numbers, not dates, will dictate and and stop fighting with each other and turning dining.” The mayor did not immediately return a of cases,” Dr. Donald Graham, an adviser to the that pegging reopening dates to holidays won’t people in.” KEEP IT LOCAL. Support local businesses.
December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 7 FEATURE Home for the holidays, sadly All they want for Christmas is a job. UNEMPLOYMENT | David Blanchette
All they want for Christmas is a job. ruining small businesses where all of my jobs As our COVID-19 guest stretches its are. The amount I am going to receive in uninvited stay into the end-of-the-year unemployment barely covers half of my house holidays, continuing pandemic restrictions and payment.” shutdowns have kept many Springfield area Hurst said she received unemployment residents from the paychecks they desperately benefits for the first shutdown period in need. the spring and is receiving payments for the That means Christmas stockings may current shutdown as well, but her benefit is go empty in many households this year, the approximately $100 every two weeks and she unemployment assistance system will remain has yet to receive her COVID stimulus check. overburdened and the perfect winter storm Hurst has left messages with IDES to ask of illness and joblessness is poised to blanket about the low biweekly benefit, but as of press much of the region’s holiday cheer. time had been waiting several weeks for a call It’s a far cry from Christmas 2019, when back. Springfield resident Vincent Reed finally “Now that I am unemployed I don’t qualify received his massage therapist license and for child care assistance so I still have to pay embarked on a new career which was soon cut for my son’s schooling out of pocket,” Hurst short by the pandemic. said. “But I am also in a couple of groups on “I picked the worst time in the world to Facebook that are helping each other out. become a massage therapist,” said the 27-year- “Our food industry jobs were keeping a old Reed. house over our heads. I was living a little more Reed had a full-time vending machine than paycheck to paycheck but I was making job plus two part-time massage therapy jobs ends meet,” Hurst said. “Something needs to and was so busy that he had no days off for happen to help those of us who have worked a month and a half. He made the decision to for years and are now displaced employees.” quit the vending machine job in March and Springfield resident Jeff Sutzer nearly transition into his new full-time career, which died from the Coronavirus and it’s killed his happened to be just a few days before the employment opportunities as well. COVID shutdown. The 45-year-old Sutzer lost his bartending “When the pandemic shutdown happened job at a local food service establishment during I signed up for unemployment but they denied the March COVID shutdown. He returned to me any funds because I had quit my job,” Reed work there in July but soon became seriously said. “I appealed that and had a hearing and ill with COVID, which caused him to suffer a got a letter two weeks later saying that I was debilitating stroke. still denied.” Sutzer spent a month in the hospital and Reed feels he is due unemployment benefits two months recovering from the stroke, because it was the state’s decision, not his, including numerous doctor, physical therapy to shut down his source of income. He’s and speech therapy appointments. He was been back to work on a COVID-restricted finally able to return to work in November, basis since June, but has spent a considerable Breanna Hurst at her Springfield home with her son Nixxon. PHOTO BY DAVID BLANCHETTE only to see his place of employment shut down amount of time attempting to plead his case again due to pandemic restrictions. with the Illinois Department of Employment “I had unemployment for a couple of Security (IDES). for a return call from staff. Meanwhile, Reed “I can’t catch a break” months but in July I was getting a bunch of “There were two weeks during this whole was informed that he might be able to qualify “I am struggling to buy household goods, let error messages from the website that wouldn’t time that I was just calling every day and I for Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic alone a present for my kid,” said 32-year-old allow me to certify any more,” Sutzer said. couldn’t get through, and it was maddening,” Security (CARES) Act funds, so he faxed a Breanna Hurst of Springfield, an unemployed “At the beginning of September I re-filed for Reed said. “I was such an asshole because I letter to the program as directed in June, but food service industry employee who had been unemployment so I started getting it again. was so pissed off. I didn’t make any money at has heard nothing since. working three separate jobs until the second I am in the process of appealing, trying to all during those two and a half months that I “Luckily I got a good tax return so I was round of COVID shutdowns hit in November. get back the payments I should have received couldn’t work. I’m due money from them, but pretty much living just on that,” Reed said. “I can’t catch a break. I am currently when I wasn’t able to certify. it’s impossible to reach them.” “My parents were helping me out too, so I without a single job with no reopening day I need to get back to work soon,” Sutzer Reed said the IDES system has since been haven’t fallen behind on bills. But it’s going to in sight,” Hurst said. “We are approaching said. “I’ve got a daughter and Christmas is changed, and allows people to leave a message be a lean holiday this year, that’s for sure.” the holidays and this second shutdown is going to be slim this year. Luckily I had some
8 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 savings and money that was raised for me to Kristin Richards, the acting director of the help get me through.” state unemployment security department, John Goodman of Springfield finally acknowledged that “this pandemic is inflicting received a call back from IDES about his an unprecedented economic toll on working unemployment benefits, which were approved, families across the state,” and said the agency and is anxiously waiting for the resulting debit handled more unemployment claims during card to arrive in the mail. the first three weeks of the pandemic than it The 54-year-old Goodman is unemployed did for all of 2019. because his chronic obstructive pulmonary “During our peak week in May, IDES disease (COPD), that he contracted while received over 1.8 million incoming calls. That’s working on a previous job, made it too risky three calls every second with less than a two for him to service customers at his most recent percent chance of connecting,” Richards said. job in retail sales. “Claimants would call hundreds of times a day “I let them know when they hired me that to win the lottery and speak with an agent. I had COPD and because of that I couldn’t The system was unfair and unsustainable and be around people, because if I got COVID claimants needed something better.” it might kill me,” Goodman said. “So they Richards said IDES had already been put me in the back to stock things in the “reeling from years of disinvestment” before warehouse away from the customers.” the pandemic that had caused agency “Later they told me they were taking me headcount to decline by half prior to 2020. off the schedule, they just let me go, because Gov. JB Pritzker sought, and the Illinois I couldn’t deal with customers at the register,” General Assembly approved, a fiscal year 2021 Jeff Sutzer’s job was affected by the COVID shutdown, then he contracted the deadly virus and it caused him Goodman said. “I told them they should put IDES budget that allows the agency to add to have a stroke. PHOTO BY DAVID BLANCHETTE me somewhere else, but they said they couldn’t 226 people, but Richards said it has still been because they needed everybody at the register. “an uphill battle” to try to keep pace with new If I couldn’t work directly with customers, they and existing unemployment claims. During the Nov. 23 briefing, which focused a tough position” due to COVID, said South didn’t want me at all.” Richards said the new IDES callback on unemployment issues, Gov. Pritzker Side Pastor Hope Van Ravenswaay. “In prior system, where claimants leave a message rather reiterated that “the financial shockwaves of this years it may have been used for a variety of “Claimants needed something better” than trying repeatedly to reach an agent on virus continue to ripple through the United different things.” The State of Illinois quickly found itself the phone, has resulted in more than one States and here in Illinois, often causing the Pastor Adam Lanter stressed that the in over its head with the COVID-caused million returned calls and that response times most harm to those least able to afford it.” Everyday Hope Project is not a resource unemployment situation that began in are continuing to improve, with calls typically He noted that as of the date of the briefing, for which people can apply, but it allows March. During a Nov. 23 COVID briefing, returned within seven to ten days. IDES had processed more than $17 billion in individual church members to make a benefits to more than 1.3 million individuals, difference. which was more than 16 times the amount of “Anecdotally there is greater awareness, benefits paid during the same period in 2019. people are more attuned to the needs of those All Illinoisans, whether employed or not, around them right now,” Lanter said. “We also face the added risk of unemployment love it as church staff when we can take care fraud. Attorney General Kwame Raoul warned of everyday needs for people. Here we have Illinoisans to watch out for evidence that a chance for our church to have boots on the something isn’t right. ground and actually make a difference.” “If you have received a debit card or a Lanter said that South Side is once again letter approving you to receive unemployment doing their holiday toy drive, but instead of insurance benefits that you did not apply for, randomly passing out the gifts, they will be it likely means that an identity thief applied making the toys available to parents from for benefits using your name or your Social identified neighborhood families in need. Security number,” Raoul said. “Always be Sangamon County Community Resources vigilant and keep a close eye on your financial has seen a “dramatic increase” in requests account statements and credit reports. That is for assistance because of COVID-related extra critical right now.” unemployment, according to Executive Director Dave MacDonna. “We are seeing a lot of people that we “We are seeing a lot of people that we have have never assisted before.” never assisted before. Nobody has experienced Local organizations have stepped up to an event like this before, so we had no idea meet the needs of people who have found what to expect,” MacDonna said. “As the themselves unemployed due to the pandemic. year continues, we know the need is still there The Everyday Hope Project at Springfield’s and we are waiting to see what the federal South Side Christian Church allows its government will do for additional funding.” members to request up to $250 to help MacDonna said the largest increases in people that they know who are facing tough assistance have gone toward making mortgage circumstances. The program has been in and utility payments. The Low Income Home operation for several years, but it’s taken on Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) has more significance in 2020. provided more than $1.8 million in utility “Almost all of the requests that we are assistance since July 27. Since the beginning Vincent Reed has returned to work as a massage therapist but business is much slower than it was before getting now are people requesting to use it for of the year through mid-November, 309 the pandemic. PHOTO BY DAVID BLANCHETTE someone who maybe has lost their job or is in Sangamon County households have received
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more than $360,000 in rent and mortgage assistance compared with 38 families and $38,000 for all of 2019. “We have received a federal grant to offer these payments and one of the requirements was that it had to be COVID-related,” MacDonna said. “I am very much looking forward to going back to work.” Patrick McPartland of Springfield had been working as a bartender but a fire at one place of employment and COVID shutdowns at another means “my holiday spending is cut down quite a bit, and as far as buying gifts, we’ve decided not to do that.” The 62-year-old McPartland tested positive for COVID this summer but was asymptomatic. It meant he was off work during a period of time when bars and restaurants were allowed to operate, but McPartland was fortunate in that his employer secured a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan to make sure even quarantined employees could be paid. McPartland didn’t get unemployment benefits during the first shutdown in March, but has been receiving them for the most recent restrictions that began in November. “I didn’t really have trouble getting benefits. A friend who had applied previously walked me through it and I got my benefits within a few weeks.” McPartland said. “It’s not as much as I’d be making if I was working, not by a longshot, but I’m surviving on it.” “I think things at bars and restaurants will probably be permanently changed, but I think once we are able to go back to work, we’ll probably be able to build it back up to where it was almost a year ago,” McPartland said. “I have a feeling that once the vaccine is out, customers might come back.” Tracy Woodard is another worker whose food service industry job has been affected Tracy Woodard and Patrick McPartland are still waiting to return to their food service industry jobs. by COVID. He was furloughed March 13, PHOTO BY DAVID BLANCHETTE returned to work in July, then tested positive for COVID, which caused Woodard to lose his sense of taste and smell. “Then while I was under quarantine I much looking forward to going back to like her who have been without work for fell and broke my hand and had to go on work.” most of 2020. disability for three months,” said the 57-year- Claire Dowling would like to get back to “The fact that Congress has been unable old Woodard. “Now I’m just waiting for food work, but Dowling’s employer, who received to accomplish anything for struggling and beverage service to start up again so I can a PPP loan to keep employees on the job, has Americans is abhorrent and unspeakable,” get back to work.” not contacted her since she was laid off on Dowling said. “They all should be fired!” “I received unemployment payments March 16. Vincent Reed has returned to work as a in the spring, then I received disability “I saw my job posted on Indeed. They massage therapist but the money isn’t what it payments, and now I have to apply again never closed the business I worked at once was because of clients’ concerns about for unemployment,” Woodard said. “In the and over the summer they opened a new COVID. He looks forward to the day when beginning it was really easy because I filed on business,” the 51-year-old Dowling said. things return to normal and he can fully March 17 and I think I was one of the first “Apparently, they called all their employees resume his chosen profession. ones to apply. I had a little bit of difficulty back to work except me. I never called in and “I wanted to find a job where I could help the second time but I would imagine that’s was a loyal, hard worker. Who does this in people. I’m good with my hands, anatomy because they have been overwhelmed.” the middle of a pandemic?” fascinates me, so when I can help people out The holidays this year “will probably be Dowling also had choice words about the that’s what really makes me happy,” Reed kind of bleak,” Woodard said. “I am very lack of additional stimulus funds for people said. “It’s a good calling for me.”
10 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 FOOD Craving Pop-Tarts: A reminiscence Now you can make your own FOOD | Peter Glatz
We’ve been traveling and living in our ingredients until the largest pieces are pea- converted school bus since the start of the size and the mixture holds together when pandemic, often without Wi-Fi or a decent you clump it. Whisk one egg with the milk cellphone signal. For self-amusement (or in a small bowl and drizzle it into the dough, just wanting to feel I’m doing something mixing just until everything is integrated. purposeful), I’ve probably spent close to If necessary, knead briefly on a well-floured 1,000 hours standing at my bus’s kitchen counter. The dough should be cohesive, but not counter engaged in cooking, baking and food wet or sticky. preservation projects. When I’m not able to Divide the dough in half, shape each half download a Netflix movie on our iPad or into a smooth rectangle, about 6 x 4 inches. tune into NPR on my phone, my mind is left Wrap each half tightly in plastic. Chill for at to wander and reminisce. I’m really craving least an hour before proceeding. (The dough nostalgic dishes from my youth, such as tuna can be prepared ahead and refrigerated for up noodle casserole or beef stroganoff… and lately, to four days or frozen for up to one month.) I’m embarrassed to admit, Pop-Tarts! I can still Remove the dough from the refrigerator sing along with Milton the Toaster: “You can eat and allow it to soften a bit to become workable, ’em in the park, eat ’em in the dark, eat ’em on a about 15 minutes. rollercoaster!” Place one piece of dough on a lightly Back when we were parents of young floured work surface, and roll it into a rectangle children, my late wife and I tried our best about 1/8-inch to ¼-inch thick, large enough to hold our children up to lofty nutritional to be trimmed to 9 inches x 12 inches. Repeat standards. Unfortunately they often felt with the second piece of dough. Using a bench embarrassed and deprived being sent to scraper or pizza roller, section each piece of school with “healthy” sack lunches while their dough into nine 4-inch x 3-inch rectangles. classmates enjoyed Lunchables and Twinkies. To make the jam filling: Combine the jam Being the children of a dentist, they knew soda with the cornstarch/water in a small saucepan. and sugary beverages were strictly banned. Bring the mixture to a boil, and simmer, Deprivation often creates desire, and stirring, for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat, banned junk food becomes the forbidden and set aside to cool. If using Nutella, omit the fruit. When my late wife and I once traveled cornstarch/water step. to Europe for a week, our friends Bill and Judy Beat the additional egg and brush it over the stayed with the kids and chauffeured them Homemade Pop-Tarts PHOTO BY ANN SHAFFER GLATZ entire surface of half of the dough rectangles. to and from school. Bill was a young dentist Place a heaping tablespoon of filling into the and Judy was a physician doing a residency in center of each rectangle, keeping clear a 1/2- pathology. Because we were totally comfortable inch border. Place a second rectangle of dough entrusting them with the well-being of our markets to support its expanded infrastructure. 1 T. sugar atop the first, using your fingertips to press three children, it was a shock to find out that The same technology that was used to create 1 t. salt firmly around the pocket of filling, sealing the they were feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and Hi-C Gaines Burgers, a semi-moist dog food that 2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into 12 pieces and dough well on all sides. Press the tines of a fork for breakfast. Their virgin palates had been didn’t need to be refrigerated, led to the chilled all around the edge of each packet. corrupted! When I expressed my indignation, development of Pop-Tarts. 1 large egg Gently place the tarts on a parchment- my daughter countered: “This is what Judy eats With apologies, I present my homemade 2 T. milk lined baking sheet. Prick the top of each tart for breakfast and she’s a doctor!” Nonplussed, I version. multiple times with a fork to allow steam to responded: “She’s a pathologist! She works on 1 additional large egg (to brush on pastry) escape. Refrigerate the tarts for 30 minutes, and dead people!” Homemade toaster pastries (aka Pop-Tarts) preheat the oven to 350°. Bake until the crust is Pop-Tarts turned 50 last September with Pop-Tarts are considered a “toaster pastry,” and For the jam filling: golden brown, about 20-25 minutes. Transfer annual sales reaching $845 million, and I’m this recipe, though containing white flour and 2/3 cup homemade or store-bought jam to a wire rack and allow to cool before serving. still preaching: “Just Say No!” According to sugar, is a less-unhealthy version. Can they be 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 1 The baked pastries can be stored in an healthline.com, Pop-Tarts rank #1 on its list of baked in the toaster? Perhaps, if you’ve sealed the tablespoon cold water airtight container at room temperature for up “The 15 Unhealthiest Junk Foods in America,” edges well, but don’t toast for too long, because the to two days. because they contain “highly processed tarts might leak. Alternate filling: ⅔ cup Nutella If you’d like to make them further in ingredients, including soybean oil and refined advance, freeze the unbaked tarts between flour, refined white sugar, corn syrup and Makes 9 tarts Preparation layers of plastic wrap, and bake as needed. high-fructose corn syrup.” The processed Ingredients Make the pâte brisée: food industry, which amped up production For the pâte brisée (tart pastry): In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, Peter, Ann and Bertha Bus send greetings from a capabilities to provide non-perishable meals 1 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour sugar and salt. With your fingers or a pastry nearly empty RV park in Steinhatchee, Florida, for the troops in World War II, needed new ½ cup white whole wheat flour blender, work the butter cubes into the dry where they are enjoying the solitude.
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Caoilinn Springall as Iris and George Clooney as Dr. Augustine Lofthouse in The Midnight Sky. PHOTO CREDIT MIKE ZERKLE Movies for holidays at home FILM | Chuck Koplinski
While change has occurred in almost every Eerily quiet, the film’s opening introduces a contemplative tone throughout, the entire facet of our lives this year, Hollywood still us to Barbeau Observatory in the Arctic Circle. movie suffers for it. Though the focus is on looks at Christmas Day as a big day for big It’s 2049 and a catastrophe has occurred that the theme of redemption, a degree of tension releases. And while we won’t be able to take will eventually wipe out all human life on or excitement should be present as well, what them in on the big screen – though Universal Earth. In flashback, we witness the station with the dire circumstances that take place. Pictures is hoping some will flock to see their being evacuated by all except Dr. Augustine Three crew members are pelted with debris western News of the World on any screens Lofthouse (Clooney) who’s suffering from a while repairing the ship, while Lofthouse and that might be open – this year they will be terminal illness. Having no home to return Iris have to contend with raging storms, a wolf available in the comfort of your own home. to, he’s decided to spend the rest of his days pack and a melting ice floe. Yet, most of these We’ll miss the movie theater, but there’s alone…that is until he finds Iris (Caoilinn moments are rendered in a flat, pedestrian something to be said about taking in George Springall), a seven-year-old girl who’s been left manner, a sense of excitement missing. Equally Clooney’s latest in your PJs. behind. And while this knocks the good doctor troubling is that the majority of these scenes are back on his heels, discovering there’s a spaceship unnecessary, many of them failing to advance headed back to Earth after a three-year journey, the plot or offer any insights into the characters. Subdued tone makes unaware that it’s now uninhabitable, puts Sky has the best of intentions and couldn’t for cloudy Sky him in a panic. Unable to warn them via the be more timely in regards to its scenario and If you’re expecting high adventure from George antenna at his disposal, Lofthouse and his message of hope. Yet, in the end, this is a dour Clooney’s The Midnight Sky, you’re likely to young charge set off on a treacherous journey to exercise, one that flirts with tedium throughout, be disappointed. Though an end-of-the-world another outpost with a more powerful signal. instead of providing inspiration. And while the scenario is its basis and an outer-space tragedy Clooney cuts back and forth between film’s final revelation is a genuine stunner, its akin to the disaster that occurred in Gravity the pair dealing with brutal weather, vicious impact is dulled. Midnight Sky longs to move takes place, the film is far more contemplative predators and unexpected setbacks and the five- us, but Clooney never truly earns the tears he in nature, a character study about a haunted person crew of the Aether, who are concerned wants us to shed. man striving for redemption while facing his that none of their transmissions to Earth are The Midnight Sky is streaming on Netflix. own mortality. Grandly produced and replete being returned. Gordon (David Oyelowo), with timely themes, this adaptation of Lili who commands the ship, is having a child Hanks nearly saves Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning Midnight with the science officer Sully (Felicity Jones), is a film that features a veteran cast delivering while Maya (Tiffany Boone), Sanchez (Demian muddled News solid performances, the highest of production Bichir) and Mitchell (Kyle Chandler) are all Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is an empty values and a premise with many potentially experts in their respective fields. man. A Civil War veteran without a family, dramatic moments. And yet, far too often, The film is never less than visually he wanders the Western Plains, reading it just sits there. For a race-against-the-clock captivating, the special effects of the highest stories from the many newspapers he has in movie, there’s a curious lack of urgency. Its quality, while the Icelandic locations prove tow, bringing them to audiences hungry for languid pace, coupled with a bloated screenplay, both beautiful and threatening. And while diversion. He ekes out a living on the meager ultimately makes for a frustrating experience. Clooney must be commended for adhering to donations he collects, just enough to get him to
12 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 the next town. He has no true direction, every who’ve raped the land, ridding it of all minority day much like the last. So, when his path crosses groups while slaughtering hundreds of buffalo that of a young white girl who’s been kidnapped for just their hides. The intent of their leader, by natives, he’s unsure how to proceed. His Farley (Thomas Francis Murphy), is never really confusion mounts when he’s charged with explained and Kidd and Johanna’s encounter returning her to her family, a journey through with them begins and ends so suddenly, the violent, treacherous territory that will test them whole episode comes off as a fever dream. both while leading them to their true purpose. Its disjointed nature mirrors the entire film, There’s a timely, vital message in Paul a ragged construct that never lets the viewer Greengrass’ News of the World, an adaptation completely in. of the novel by Paulette Jiles. A western in Be that as it may, the movie ends on a high appearance, it speaks to the power of not note and speaks to what News might have been. simply a well-told tale but the truth behind Kidd, with assistance from Johanna, delivers it. At its core, it examines the consequences a stirring reading of a variety of stories from of disinformation and the value of facts, even around the country to an appreciative crowd. if they may be a tad unpopular. Ironically, They are transported by whimsical tales, shocked for a film that deals with the power of a clear by violent stories and contemplative over narrative, it comes off as a bit murky at times, social issues. And despite the listeners’ various with incidents and characters not fully explained backgrounds, they take in Kidd’s wares together, or fleshed out. This prevents it from having the unified by his telling, though they may perceive narrative through-line it needs to keep the viewer them in different ways. It is a triumphant engaged. That the pacing moves in fits and starts moment that speaks to all we have lost in this shows that key elements are missing, age of disinformation. Had News concentrated Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd in News of the World. As Kidd, Tom Hanks’ austere persona holds more on scenes such as this, it too would be a him in good stead. With stars of his stature, we story worth remembering. have the convenience of shorthand, knowing This film is available through video-on-demand with a glance what the character is all about, services. thanks to the actor’s familiar bearing. Much like Chuck Noland from Cast Away, Kidd is adrift, Hanks employing his trademark faraway, sad- Mulligan impressive in eyed gaze to convey the veteran’s loneliness. But Promising Young Woman there’s an anger here as well, which comes to the Sometimes the sheer force of a single fore when bandits pursue him and his charge, performance can elevate a film, taking what young Johanna Leonberger (Helena Zengel), a would be a run-of-the-mill project and turning daughter of German immigrants, adrift between it into something truly special. Such is the a culture she’s nearly forgotten and one she’s case with Carey Mulligan and Promising Young been torn away from. Having abandoned her Woman, a social diatribe disguised as a pitch- native tongue, communication between the odd black comedy, a film that takes no prisoners as travelers is limited, yet they learn how to “speak” it examines sexual abuse and its far-reaching to one another when forced to deal with the consequences. Its basis has been used in more outlaws and zealots that cross their path. than its fair share of exploitation flicks, the Curiously constructed, News keeps the viewer movie resembling a female-driven Death Wish at arm’s length throughout, never revealing with a wicked sense of humor. But it winds up enough about Kidd to make him a charismatic being more than that, thanks to the sharp-edged character, while the various troubles he and writing from director Emerald Fennell and a Johanna encounter begin and end abruptly. The fierce performance from Mulligan, who grounds biggest misstep occurs midway through, when her character’s sense of guilt and vengeance in Carey Mulligan as Cassandra Thomas in Promising Young Woman. the pair encounter a large group of renegades sincerity and remorse.
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Cassandra Thomas (Mulligan) was once a woman of great promise. However, she dropped out of medical school soon after her best friend, also a pre-med student, was brutally raped by multiple men at the college they attended, and ultimately committed suicide. Living at home and languishing in a dead-end job at a local coffee shop, Cassie is seemingly adrift… that is until nightfall, when she goes out to bars, pretends to be drunk and allows herself to be picked up by a “Good Samaritan.” He invariably reveals his true colors when he tries to take advantage of her. Our heroine, who soon reveals herself to be stone sober, turns the tables on her assailant. We see her putting hashmarks in a well-worn notebook replete with them each morning after, a signifier of her campaign of revenge against men like those who had assaulted her friend. Jamie Foxx as Joe Gardner in Soul. It seems like a dead-end path with no good end, until she reunites with Ryan (Bo Burnham), an old classmate who belatedly acts Soul a testament to the it out of there and finds himself in The Great on his attraction to her. They go out a few times. Before, a serene locale populated by new souls, Cassandra finds she can stomach him and even beauty of life who are not fully formed. Desperate to return toys with the notion that while 99.9% of men Joe Gardner has always had modest ambitions. to Earth, a bargain is struck and our hero is are scumbags, Ryan may be a keeper. Could love Passionate about music, his primary goal has assigned Soul 22 (Tina Fey), a belligerent sprite and a healthy relationship be in her future? Of been to play in a band, not so much for fame who has yet to find her spark, the thing that course, that would be too easy and run counter and fortune, but just to do what he loves. As will develop into her passion in life. It’s Joe’s job to Fennell’s intentions. There are no happy long as he could make enough to survive, he’d to help her find it. He has his work cut out for endings to be had here. This is a world of victims be happy. But like so many of us, he’s made him. and abusers and very little in between. compromises and concessions, at times justified The wealth of imagination in the script Like any well-done revenge tale, the story pushing his dreams to the side for more practical by Mike Jones, Docter and Powers is proves engaging, as it speaks to us on a primal reasons, always intending to focus on it again overwhelming, one clever concept tripping on level, appealing to our sense of right and when the time was right. However, time has the heels of the next, uproarious jokes flying left wrong. The vengeful hero is a worthy cathartic passed, opportunities have become rare and, and right, genuine sentiment underpinning it figure whose only intention is to balance the before you know it, his passion has faded and all. Much like Docter’s Inside/Out, the film does scales. Run-of-the-mill entries are satisfied with threatens to become something that gnaws and a masterful job of personifying emotions and providing simple vicarious thrills and little festers. Joe has settled in as a music teacher at a behaviors in striking visual and behavioral terms, else. However, Promising is one of the few that public school. However an opportunity pops up the most memorable being the Lost Souls who digs deeper, revealing exactly what is driving from out of the blue, to play at a renowned New are doomed to wander in limbo. Hulking black, Cassie, not simply looking at the violence York City club with a respected quartet. Too bad shapeless figures, they aimlessly drudge through she commits but the pain she’s incapable of Joe dies before he can give his dream one final a grim landscape, their single eye searching for relieving. Mulligan, one of the great actresses shot. purpose, which is constantly elusive. of her generation, wears a wide variety of That’s the set-up for Pete Docter and Kemp It’s a haunting image that serves as a stark masks here and is convincing in each. Whether Powers’ Soul, a beautiful meditation on life counterpoint for the sights that put everything a “drunken” temptress, a sharp-edged coquette, and all that makes it worth living. It’s a simple in perspective for Joe. Rivaling the heartbreaking avenging angel or wounded child, her sincerity enough theme, yet what with the scattered opening of Docter’s Up, he witnesses a series of validates every facet of Cassie’s personality, in lives we lead and the vagaries of 2020 weighing seemingly mundane events from his life as well the end creating a flawed woman we can easily on most of our shoulders, the special kind of as a litany of everyday treasures, all of which he’s relate to. While we may be put off by some of inspiration Pixar Films supplies when firing taken for granted. In realizing the beauty in all her actions, in the end we long to comfort her, on all cylinders is much needed. While this these things, Joe rediscovers his spark. Our world as futile as that would be. Mulligan delivers simple tale threatens to jump the tracks with and so much of what it contains makes life worth a complex portrait of madness that can’t help a silly subplot, it soon rights itself and proves living. It’s a simple notion, but Soul drives home but affect the viewer. to be one of the studio’s best and most moving this message with subtle grace, making it one of Fennell’s one misstep is in the way productions. the most moving films of the year. she portrays men. Every one of them is After a former student calls Joe (voice by Soul is streaming on Disney Plus. reprehensible in one way or another. This Jamie Foxx) telling him he’s set up an audition broad-stroke approach runs counter to the for him with the great jazz artist Dorothea Chuck Koplinski has had the great pleasure of complex examination of her heroine, a narrative Williams (Angela Bassett), he’s over the moon, reviewing movies for Illinois Times since 1998. flaw that’s hard to excuse. Still, Mulligan is a even more so when he lands the job to play A member of the Critics Choice Association and sight to behold, and while Promising might not piano in her quartet. Unfortunately, his zeal to the Chicago Film Critics Association, he’ll go to be one of the year’s best films, her performance rush home to tell his mother causes him to make his grave contending the Will Ferrell Sherlock certainly is. a misstep into an open manhole cover. Before Holmes parody Holmes and Watson is a Promising Young Woman is available you know it, he’s riding a massive escalator to criminally overlooked through Video-on-Demand services. heaven. Sensing it’s not his time, Joe hightails comedy classic.
14 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 MUSIC Two Christmas songs NOW PLAYING | Tom Irwin
Happy holidays to everyone, and here’s to having a very Merry Christmas, too. Since there’s not much going on in the live music world, nor in the virtual one either, how about a ramble on two popular Christmas songs that just happen to be favorites of mine? I’ve always appreciated the song Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for challenging the listener to think about actually doing something positive for the event celebrating the birth of Jesus and also for the interesting chordal structure that feels rewarding and surprising to me every time I play it. Here’s to John for not just mouthing good cheer nonsense while filling a silly holiday song with sentimental goop, as a seasonal number by another former Beatle sounds like to me, but for going after the nitty gritty with gusto. After the commercial success of Imagine, a timeless and beautiful song that, though credited to Lennon, contains much of Ono’s philosophy, John is quoted as saying, “Now I understand what you have to do: Put your political message across with a little honey,” and Happy Xmas is indeed a sweet song. Produced by the great Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composed the (though extremely weird, to say the least) poem that became the carol, I Heard the Bells Phil Spector and featuring the Harlem on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day in 1893. Community Choir, it was originally put out as a 45-rpm single on green vinyl. Due to the many covers of the song since then, it’s with the recurring phrase, “of peace on now considered a standard, still asking the Earth, good-will to men,” to take the reader listener every time it’s played to do better, from the depths of despair to a smashing be better and live for and in peace. victory for goodness, all told while listening And in case you’re wondering, like I to – in campanology speak – the pealing of always did, why he called it Happy Xmas said bells. instead of Merry Christmas, it’s reported Music first made the words into lyrics in that the British generally care to use 1872, but for my taste, I will pass on that “Happy,” rather than “Merry.” It’s not a melody and go directly to the one initially hard-and-fast rule, as proven by the old recorded by Bing Crosby in 1956 and by English carol, We Wish You A Merry many others since, including Johnny Cash, Christmas, which dates back the 1800s, but Burl Ives, Harry Belafonte, the Carpenters from what I can tell, the phrase is much and Casting Crowns. The uplifting and more common across the pond than here in oh-so-fitting music for this version was the States. composed by none other than Johnny Now my all-time, blue-ribbon special Marks, the same songwriter responsible is hands down, I Heard the Bells on for Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Christmas Day, and not just because it’s along with Rockin’ Around the Christmas a cool yule carol, but for its compelling Tree, plus A Holly Jolly Christmas, Silver backstory, including a hip twist at the end and Gold and the rest of the songs from that comes along with the song. The lyrics that famously camp, 1964 TV show about come from a powerful poem written on Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys. Christmas Day in 1863 by none other than How’s that for a little whoop-de-do the eminent Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. finale? See you next week for our New Year’s Worried about losing his son in Civil War edition of Now Playing with no one playing combat, the august poet composed this anywhere. I’m fairly certain we will find seven stanza poem called Christmas Bells, something to go on about anyway.
December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 15 THE CALENDAR
Pet adoptions BULLETIN BOARD | Animal Protective League Sat., Dec. 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun., Dec. 27, 12-3 p.m. No matter the season, the Animal Protective League (APL) is always at work caring for ill, injured, PetSmart abused and abandoned cats and dogs, and coordinating their adoptions by responsible pet owners. 3183 S. Veterans Pkwy. For over 60 years, the APL has been the voice for animals in Springfield and Sangamon County. It 217-698-3091 operates a limited-admission animal shelter and a high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter clinic, along with comprehensive animal-welfare programs. It is a private, nonprofit organization and operates primarily by donations. All animals available for adoption are spayed or neutered, microchipped and will have received all age-appropriate vaccinations by the time of their adoption. Pets are available for viewing and adoption daily from 12-5 p.m. at the APL shelter at 1001 Taintor Road, Springfield. This week PetSmart is hosting APL pet adoption events on Saturday and Sunday. For additional information, call 217-544-7387 or visit their website at apl-shelter.org.
Route 66 Film Festival White Stone Ceremony donations of canned and boxed THE CALENDAR Through Dec. 28, 12am. Independent Sun., Jan. 3, 10-11am. A White Stone Send us your events! Deadline: 5pm Fri. nonperishable food items. For more Submit online at: www.illinoistimes.com. films from around the world. Nine Ceremony represents the clean information, call 217-494-4142, 217- Email: [email protected] Dates, times sessions, $7.50 each or $50 for all. slate we have been given to create 741-4603 or 217-993-1317. Hosted and locations are subject to last-minute changes, route66filmfestival.net. 217-494- something new. Join in this special by the Coalition of Rainbow Alliances. so we suggest calling before attending events. 1279. service to start the new year. Call First Church of the Brethren, 2115 or visit the Facebook event page for Yale Boulevard, 217-523-5212. more information. Love offering. 217- 523-5897. MLK Day of Service winter wear Faith & Philosophy drive Through Jan. 12, 2021, 8am-5pm. Christmas Eve with Hope Holiday Happenings Live Music Thu., Dec. 24, 4pm online only Donate new and unused winter service and 6pm Cars and Candles outerwear for local organizations Light up the Park that serve those in need. Call for Jack and Morgan service at the church. Bring a Through Dec. 27. Drive through over Sat., Dec. 26, 7:30pm. Boar's Nest, candle and tune your radios to more information. Senior Services a mile of 100,000+ brilliant holiday of Central Illinois, 701 W. Mason St., 1007 N. State Route 29, Athens. 95.5 FM to listen. The candlelight lights, sculptures, arches and more. services will end with singing Silent 217-528-4035. Jambalaya Jazz with Frank Parker See the Light Up the Park Facebook Night safely and socially distanced. event. $5 donation suggested. Sat., Dec. 26, 6-9pm. Buzz Bomb Hope Church, 3000 Lenhart Road, Brewing Co. Chatham Community Park, Chatham, Bulletin Board 787-1446. 731 S. Main St. Tom's Turtle Tank Tuesdays APL pet adoptions Guided healing meditation Saturdays, 11am-4pm and Sundays, Tue., Dec. 29, 8:30pm. On Facebook Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30pm. A spiritual with Tom Irwin. Fundraisers 12-3pm. apl-shelter.org. PetSmart, adventure using visualization and 3183 S. Veterans Pkwy., 217-544- energy tools for healing. Email Coalition of Rainbow Alliances 7387. Dance [email protected] for food collection information. Love offering. 217-523- Saturdays, 10am-12pm. Coalition of Through Clara’s Eyes 5897. Rainbow Alliances is taking donations Sports & Fitness Every Friday-Sunday through Jan. 3. to help stock the micro pantries It’s an exciting behind-the-scenes Releasing Service at the Boys and Girls Clubs and Let’s Get Fit journey of more than forty years of the Sun., Dec. 27, 10-11am. Join the Fifth Street Renaissance. Visit their Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Springfield Ballet Company’s annual Releasing Service to release 2020 Facebook page for more info. First 9-10am. Online exercise classes for production of The Nutcracker. $30- and all that no longer serve you. Church of the Brethren, 2115 Yale individuals 50+ hosted by Senior $48. 217-544-1967. Via Zoom. Love offerings accepted. Boulevard, 217-523-5212. Services of Central Illinois. Via Zoom. Email [email protected] Contact Justin Yuroff at 217-528- for details. Unity of Springfield, 417 Compass for Kids food drive 4035 for more information and to Film & Television Cordelia, 523-5897. Sat., Dec. 26, 10am-1pm. Accepting register for the Zoom link.
16 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 MARKETPLACE
For information call Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 20-021394. Michael A. Phelps MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6297416 Email: [email protected] 20CH187
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS ARENA LIMITED SPV, LLC, Plaintiff, -v.- VCHP SPRINGFIELD, LLC, PACKARD HOSPI- TALITY MANAGEMENT, LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendant 2019 CH 177 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 25, 2020 (the “Judgment Order”), an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 12, 2021, at the Sangamon County Court- house, 200 S. Ninth Street, SPRINGFIELD, Real Estate Foreclosure IL, 62701, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the fol- lowing described real estate and personal IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTH property associated therewith described JUDICIAL CIRCUIT more fully in the Judgment Order: SANGAMON COUNTY - SPRINGFIELD Commonly known as 101 E. ADAMS ST. ILLINOIS AND 125 E. ADAMS ST., SPRINGFIELD, Oceanside Mortgage Company, Plaintiff, IL 62701 vs. Property Index No. 14-33-22-7-032, 14- Jennifer M. Roe; Unknown Owners and 33-228-011, 14-34-101-007 Non-Record Claimants, Defendants. The real estate is improved with a hotel. Case No. 2019CH000187 The judgment amount was 2 Interlacken Road, Springfield, IL 62704 $18,622,614.64 as of September 30, Judge Adam Giganti 2020. NOTICE OF SALE Sale terms:10% down of the highest bid PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that by certified funds at the close of the sale pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. and Sale entered in the above entitled No third party checks will be accepted. cause on August 2, 2019, Jack Campbell The balance in certified funds/or wire will on January 12, 2021, at the hour of transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) 9:00AM at the Sangamon County Sheriff’s hours. No fee shall be paid by the mort- Office, Sangamon County Courthouse, 200 gagee acquiring the residential real estate South 9th Street, Second Floor, Springfield, pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by IL 62703, sell to the highest bidder for any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other cash, the following described mortgaged lienor acquiring the residential real estate real estate: whose rights in and to the residential real Situated in Sangamon County, Illinois. estate arose prior to the sale. The subject Commonly known as 2 Interlacken Road, property is subject to general real estate Springfield, IL 62704 taxes, special assessments, or special Parcel Number(s): 22-06.0-127-002 taxes levied against said real estate and is The real estate is improved with a Single offered for sale without any representa- Family Residence. tion as to quality or quantity of title and Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” time of sale, a cashier’s or certified check condition. The sale is further subject to for 10% of the successful bid amount. confirmation by the court. The balance of the successful bid shall Upon payment in full of the amount bid, be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. the purchaser will receive a Certificate The subject property is offered for sale of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to without any representation as to quality a deed to the real estate and associated or quantity of title and without recourse personal property identified in the Judg- to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The ment Order after confirmation of the sale. sale is further subject to confirmation by The property will NOT be open for inspec- the Court. The property will NOT be open tion and plaintiff makes no representation for inspection. as to the condition of the property. Pro- If this property is a condominium unit, the spective bidders are admonished to check purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure the court file to verify all information. sale, other than the mortgagee shall If this property is a condominium unit, the pay the assessments and the legal fees purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure required by the Condominium Property sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). the assessments and the legal fees
December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 17 required by The Condominium Property tion and plaintiff makes no representation estate taxes which have not yet become Upon payment in full of the amount bid, CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST 605/18.5 (g-1). Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If as to the condition of the property. Pro- due and payable, with special assess- the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, this property is a condominium unit spective bidders are admonished to check ments, if any, and easements and restric- Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, THERESA M. the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled which is part of a common interest com- the court file to verify all information. tions of record, and existing leases, if any, Deed to the real estate after confirmation FAHEY, LINDSAY MICHELLE FAHEY SMITH only to a return of the purchase price munity, the purchaser of the unit at the If this property is a condominium unit, the applicable zoning laws; property is sold of the sale. and JOEL MARTIN FAHEY, Defendants. paid. The Purchaser shall have no further foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure “AS IS, WHERE IS, and with no warran- The property will NOT be open for inspec- CASE NO. 20-CH-124 recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- shall pay the assessments required by sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay ties”, and without any representation as to tion. Prospective bidders are admonished PROPERTY ADDRESS: gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS the assessments and the legal fees quality or quantity of the title and without to check the Court file to verify all 2022 S. 4TH ST. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- 605/18.5(g-1). required by The Condominium Property recourse to Plaintiff. The sale is further information. SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If subject to confirmation by the Court. For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO this property is a condominium unit IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East pursuant to a Judgment of the above AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS which is part of a common interest com- OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) Court entered in the above entitled cause SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- munity, the purchaser of the unit at the REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS 422-1719 on November 24, 2020, the following 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- The purchaser of a condominium unit described real estate, to-wit: FORECLOSURE LAW. 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE shall pay the assessments required by SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than Permanent Index Number: 22-04.0-430- Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection FORECLOSURE LAW. The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE a mortgagee, who takes possession of 006 fka 22-04-430-006 Practices Act you are advised that the Law For information, Ann E. Pille, REED SMITH 605/18.5(g-1). FORECLOSURE LAW. a condominium unit pursuant to a court Commonly known as: 2022 S. 4th St., Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 10 SOUTH IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, Plaintiff order or a purchaser who acquires title Springfield, IL 62703 deemed to be a debt collector attempting WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR, Chicago, IL, OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO By: /s/ Brian D. Jones from a mortgagee shall have the duty will be offered for sale and sold at public to collect a debt, and any information 60606 (312) 207-1000. REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS One of Its Attorneys to pay the proportionate share, if any, of vendue on January 5, 2021, at 9:00 AM, obtained will be used for that purpose. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- Sorling Northrup the common expenses for the unit which in the Sangamon County Complex, County HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION Stephen A. Tagge, of Counsel – Reg. would have become due in the absence of Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE #2793369 any assessment acceleration during the 6 Illinois. Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC You can also visit The Judicial Sales FORECLOSURE LAW. Brian D. Jones, of Counsel – Reg. months immediately preceding institution The Judgment amount is $43,054.63. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day For information, contact Plaintiff’s attor- #6286510 of an action to enforce the collection of The real estate is improved with a single HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC status report of pending sales. ney: RANDALL S. MILLER & ASSOCIATES, Attorneys for Plaintiff assessments, and which remain unpaid by family residence. Attorneys at Law REED SMITH LLP 120 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 1140, Chi- One North Old State Capitol Plaza, Suite the owner during whose possession the Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid P.O. Box 740 10 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR cago, IL, 60602, (312) 239-3432. Please 200 assessments accrued. If the outstanding by certified funds at the close of the sale Decatur, IL 62525 Chicago IL, 60606 refer to file number 19IL00316-1. E-Mail: P. O. Box 5131 assessments are paid at any time during payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- Send Notice/Pleadings to: 312-207-1000 [email protected] Springfield, IL 62705 any action to enforce the collection of ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Case Number: 2019 CH 177 case # 2020 CH 000004 Telephone: (217) 544‑1144 assessments, the purchaser shall have no The balance, including the Judicial sale Email: [email protected] TJSC#: 40-2453 E-Mail: [email protected] obligation to pay any assessments which fee for Abandoned Residential Property Telephone: (217) 422-1719 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collec- accrued before he or she acquired title. Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 tion Practices Act, you are advised that IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH If this property is a condominium unit lated on residential real estate at the rate R20CH124 Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NOTICE OF SALE which is part of a common interest com- of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof collector attempting to collect a debt and SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS STATE OF ILLINOIS munity, the purchaser of the unit at the of the amount paid by the purchaser any information obtained will be used for BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, an Illinois banking IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or NOTICE OF SALE that purpose. corporation, Plaintiff, JUDICIAL CIRCUIT shall pay the assessments required by wire transfer, is due within twenty-four STATE OF ILLINOIS 19CH117 v. COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JEFFREY JOSEPH LANGBEHN, UNKNOWN SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS 605/18.5 (g-1). mortgagee acquiring the residential real JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OWNERS, and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH Defendants. vs. the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN CHANCERY JOHN POTTORF AKA JOHN L. POTTORF only to a return of the purchase price or other lienor acquiring the residential CHARLES E. LEE AND LINDA G. LEE, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Case No. 2020CH000164 AKA JOHN LEE POTTORF, Defendant. paid. The Purchaser shall have no further real estate whose rights in and to the Plaintiff, UMB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT NOTICE OF SALE CASE NO. 20-CH-79 recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- mortgaged real estate arose prior to the vs. IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that PROPERTY ADDRESS: gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. sale. The subject property is subject to LEE EDWARD WILLIAMS, JR., Defendant. AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR LVS TITLE pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure 212 S. 8TH STREET IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- general real estate taxes, special assess- CASE NO. 20-CH-103 TRUST 2018-3, Plaintiff, entered by the court in the above‑entitled RIVERTON, IL 62561 OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ments or special taxes levied against PROPERTY ADDRESS: -v.- cause the property hereinafter described PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS said real estate, and is offered for sale 1205 CONVERSE AVE. ANTHONY L. CATENCAMP, Defendant or so much thereof as shall be sufficient pursuant to a Judgment of the above AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- without any representation as to quality SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 2020 CH 000004 to satisfy said judgment, will be sold to Court entered in the above entitled cause SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION or quantity of title and without recourse to PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pur- NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE the highest bidder. on November 24, 2020, the following 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The suant to a Judgment of the above Court PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that (A) The name, address and telephone described real estate, to-wit: FORECLOSURE LAW. Sale is further subject to confirmation by entered in the above entitled cause on pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure number of the person to contact for infor- Permanent Index Number: 15-15.0- Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection the Court. October 14, 2020, the following described and Sale entered in the above cause on mation regarding the real estate is: 105-040 Practices Act you are advised that the Law Upon payment in full of the amount bid, real estate, to-wit: August 19, 2020, the Sheriff of Sangamon Suzanna Scherf Commonly known as: 212 S. 8th Street, Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Permanent Index Number: 14-22.0- County will at 9:00 AM on January 12, BANK OF SPRINGFIELD Riverton, IL 62561 deemed to be a debt collector attempting Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a 477-013 2021, at the Sangamon County Court- 3400 West Wabash Avenue will be offered for sale and sold at public to collect a debt, and any information Deed to the real estate after confirmation Commonly known as: 1205 Converse house, 200 S. Ninth Street, SPRINGFIELD, Springfield, IL 62711 vendue on January 5, 2021, at 9:00 AM, obtained will be used for that purpose. of the sale. Ave., Springfield, IL 62702 IL, 62701, sell at public auction to the (217) 529-5555 in the Sangamon County Complex, County HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, The property will NOT be open for inspec- will be offered for sale and sold at public highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, (B) The common address and other Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney tion. Prospective bidders are admonished vendue on January 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM, the following described real estate: common descriptions, if any, of the real Illinois. Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC to check the Court file to verify all in the Sangamon County Complex, County Commonly known as 2013 STOCKTON estate is: The Judgment amount is $181,684.25. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) information. Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, DR., SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 2224 South College Street The real estate is improved with a single HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Illinois. Property Index No. 22-23.0-129-028 Springfield, IL 62704 family residence. Attorneys at Law Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East The Judgment amount is $54,056.46. The real estate is improved with a single (C) The legal description of the real estate Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid P.O. Box 740 Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) The real estate is improved with a single family residence. is as follows: by certified funds at the close of the sale Decatur, IL 62525 422-1719 family residence. The judgment amount was $203,281.70. The South 5 feet of Lot 53 and the North payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- Send Notice/Pleadings to: The purchaser of a condominium unit Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid 35 feet of Lot 52 in Charles S. Wanless’ ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than by certified funds at the close of the sale by certified funds at the close of the auc- South First Street Subdivision. Except all The balance, including the Judicial sale Email: [email protected] a mortgagee, who takes possession of payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- tion; the balance, including the Judicial coal and other minerals underlying said fee for Abandoned Residential Property Telephone: (217) 422-1719 a condominium unit pursuant to a court ty. No third party checks will be accepted. sale fee for Abandoned Residential lands, together with the right to mine and Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 order or a purchaser who acquires title The balance, including the Judicial sale Property Municipality Relief Fund, which remove same. Situated in Sangamon lated on residential real estate at the rate 20CH79 from a mortgagee shall have the duty fee for Abandoned Residential Property is calculated on residential real estate County, Illinois. Commonly known as: of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof to pay the proportionate share, if any, of Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or 2224 South College Street, Springfield, of the amount paid by the purchaser the common expenses for the unit which lated on residential real estate at the rate fraction thereof of the amount paid by IL 62704 not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or NOTICE OF SALE would have become due in the absence of of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof the purchaser not to exceed $300, in Parcel Number: 22-04-407-007 wire transfer, is due within twenty-four STATE OF ILLINOIS any assessment acceleration during the 6 of the amount paid by the purchaser certified funds, is due within twenty-four (D) Description of the improvement on the (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH months immediately preceding institution not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or (24) hours. The subject property is subject real estate is as follows: mortgagee acquiring the residential real JUDICIAL CIRCUIT of an action to enforce the collection of wire transfer, is due within twenty-four to general real estate taxes, special as- Single-Family Residence estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, assessments, and which remain unpaid by (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the sessments, or special taxes levied against (E) The real estate will not be open for or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS the owner during whose possession the mortgagee acquiring the residential real said real estate and is offered for sale inspection prior to sale. or other lienor acquiring the residential HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, assessments accrued. If the outstanding estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale without any representation as to quality (F) The time and place of the sale are: real estate whose rights in and to the vs. assessments are paid at any time during or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or quantity of title and without recourse 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, mortgaged real estate arose prior to the LINDSAY MICHELLE FAHEY SMITH, AS IN- any action to enforce the collection of or other lienor acquiring the residential to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The in the Sangamon County Board Chambers sale. The subject property is subject to DEPENDENT CO-ADMINISTRATOR OF THE assessments, the purchaser shall have no real estate whose rights in and to the sale is further subject to confirmation by (2nd Floor) of the Sangamon County general real estate taxes, special assess- ESTATE OF MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, obligation to pay any assessments which mortgaged real estate arose prior to the the court. Courthouse, 200 South Ninth Street, ments or special taxes levied against JOEL MARTIN FAHEY, AS INDEPENDENT accrued before he or she acquired title. sale. The subject property is subject to Upon payment in full of the amount bid, Springfield, Illinois. said real estate, and is offered for sale CO-ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF If this property is a condominium unit general real estate taxes, special assess- the purchaser will receive a Certificate of (G) The terms of the sale are cash or certi- without any representation as to quality MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, UNKNOWN which is part of a common interest com- ments or special taxes levied against Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a fied funds at time of sale. or quantity of title and without recourse to HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF MARTIN T. FAHEY, munity, the purchaser of the unit at the said real estate, and is offered for sale deed to the real estate after confirmation (H) The subject property is sold subject to the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee without any representation as to quality of the sale all general real estate taxes which are a Sale is further subject to confirmation by LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF shall pay the assessments required by or quantity of title and without recourse to The property will NOT be open for inspec- lien upon the real estate, all general real the Court. MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, UNKNOWN the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The
18 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 Sale is further subject to confirmation by SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO mortgaged real estate arose prior to the the Court. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS sale. The subject property is subject to Upon payment in full of the amount bid, pursuant to a Judgment of the above AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- general real estate taxes, special assess- the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Court entered in the above entitled cause SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION ments or special taxes levied against Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a on November 24, 2020, the following 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE said real estate, and is offered for sale PUBLIC NOTICES Deed to the real estate after confirmation described real estate, to-wit: FORECLOSURE LAW. without any representation as to quality of the sale. Permanent Index Number: 22-10.0-203- Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection or quantity of title and without recourse to The property will NOT be open for inspec- 010 fka 22-10-203-010 Practices Act you are advised that the Law the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDI- Claims against the Estate may be filed in tion. Prospective bidders are admonished Commonly known as: 2522 South 13th Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is Sale is further subject to confirmation by CIAL CIRCUIT the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, to check the Court file to verify all St., Springfield, IL 62703 deemed to be a debt collector attempting the Court. SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Sangamon County Complex, 200 South information. will be offered for sale and sold at public to collect a debt, and any information Upon payment in full of the amount bid, ESTATE OF 9th Street, Springfield, Illinois 62701, or For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: vendue on January 5, 2021, at 9:00 AM, obtained will be used for that purpose. the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of David Roth, Deceased. with the representative, or both, on or Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East in the Sangamon County Complex, County TOWN AND COUNTRY BANC MORTGAGE Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Case No. 2020 P 663 before June 17, 2021, and any claim not Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, Deed to the real estate after confirmation NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION OF ESTATE filed on or before that date is barred. Cop- 422-1719 Illinois. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney of the sale. AND CLAIMS ies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be The purchaser of a condominium unit The Judgment amount is $33,161.48. Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC The property will NOT be open for inspec- INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVE mailed or delivered to the representative at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than The real estate is improved with a single Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) tion. Prospective bidders are admonished Notice is given of the death of David Roth. and to the attorney within ten (10) days a mortgagee, who takes possession of family residence. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC to check the Court file to verify all Letters of office were issued on December after it has been filed. a condominium unit pursuant to a court Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid Attorneys at Law information. 9, 2020 to Benjamin Roth as independent Dated this 2nd day of December, 2020. order or a purchaser who acquires title by certified funds at the close of the sale P.O. Box 740 For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Executor/Representative, whose attorney Robert Bradford Smith from a mortgagee shall have the duty payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- Decatur, IL 62525 Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East is Gary E. Kerr, 1020 S. 7th Street, Spring- Independent Executor to pay the proportionate share, if any, of ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Send Notice/Pleadings to: Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) field, Illinois 62703. Barry O. Hines - 01220918 the common expenses for the unit which The balance, including the Judicial sale Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) 422-1719 Notice is given to heirs of the decedent Attorney at Law would have become due in the absence of fee for Abandoned Residential Property Email: [email protected] The purchaser of a condominium unit whose names or addresses were not 1224 Centre West Drive, Suite 200A any assessment acceleration during the 6 Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Telephone: (217) 422-1719 at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than stated in the petition that an order was Springfield, IL 62704 months immediately preceding institution lated on residential real estate at the rate Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 a mortgagee, who takes possession of entered by the court on December 9, Telephone: (217) 698-8444 of an action to enforce the collection of of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof 20CH157 a condominium unit pursuant to a court 2020 admitting the will to probate. Within Email: [email protected] assessments, and which remain unpaid by of the amount paid by the purchaser order or a purchaser who acquires title 42 days after the effective date of the the owner during whose possession the not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or from a mortgagee shall have the duty original order of admission you may file a IN THE CIRCUIT COURT assessments accrued. If the outstanding wire transfer, is due within twenty-four NOTICE OF SALE to pay the proportionate share, if any, of petition with the court to require proof of OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT assessments are paid at any time during (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT the common expenses for the unit which the will by testimony of the witnesses to SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS any action to enforce the collection of mortgagee acquiring the residential real OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT would have become due in the absence of the will in open court or other evidence, In the Matter of the Estate of: assessments, the purchaser shall have no estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, any assessment acceleration during the 6 as provided in Section 6-21 of the Probate JoAnn Bokamp, Deceased. obligation to pay any assessments which or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS months immediately preceding institution Act (755 ILCS 5/6-21). You also have the No. 2020-P-503 accrued before he or she acquired title. or other lienor acquiring the residential PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, of an action to enforce the collection of right under Section 8-1 of the Probate Act NOTICE TO HEIRS AND If this property is a condominium unit real estate whose rights in and to the Plaintiff, assessments, and which remain unpaid by (755 ILCS 5/8-1) to contest the validity of NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF CLAIM DATE which is part of a common interest com- mortgaged real estate arose prior to the vs. the owner during whose possession the the will by filing a petition with the court Notice is given of the death of JoAnn munity, the purchaser of the unit at the sale. The subject property is subject to UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF assessments accrued. If the outstanding within 6 months after admission of the will Bokamp, of Springfield, Illinois. Letters foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee general real estate taxes, special assess- THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, assessments are paid at any time during to probate. Testamentary were issued on November shall pay the assessments required by ments or special taxes levied against UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLD- any action to enforce the collection of The estate will be administered without 30, 2020, to JR Evans, 2325 Eastview the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS said real estate, and is offered for sale ERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF THOMAS assessments, the purchaser shall have no court supervision, unless under Section Drive, Springfield, Illinois, 62702 as In- 605/18.5 (g-1). without any representation as to quality J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, UNKNOWN obligation to pay any assessments which 28-4 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) of the Probate Act dependent Administrator, whose attorney If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, or quantity of title and without recourse to CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST accrued before he or she acquired title. any interested person terminates indepen- of record is DELANO LAW OFFICES, LLC, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF If this property is a condominium unit dent administration at any time by mailing One Southeast Old State Capitol Plaza, only to a return of the purchase price Sale is further subject to confirmation by THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, which is part of a common interest com- or delivering a petition to terminate to Springfield, Illinois, 62701. paid. The Purchaser shall have no further the Court. TRISTIE ANN SIDENER and WILLIAM P. munity, the purchaser of the unit at the the clerk. Notice is given to all known and unknown recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- Upon payment in full of the amount bid, BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee Claims against the estate may be filed heirs of JoAnn Bokamp of the entry of the gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of OF THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, shall pay the assessments required by within six months from the date of first Order as set forth above and of the entry IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Defendants. the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS publication. Any claim not filed within six of an Order declaring JR Evans and Jim OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO Deed to the real estate after confirmation CASE NO. 19-CH-386 PROPERTY AD- 605/18.5 (g-1). months from the date of first publication Evans as the only heirs of JoAnn Bokamp. REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS of the sale. DRESS: If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, or claims not filed within three months The estate will be administered without AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- The property will NOT be open for inspec- 1813 E. KEYS AVE. the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled from the date of mailing or delivery of court supervision, unless under 28-4 of SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION tion. Prospective bidders are admonished SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 only to a return of the purchase price Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall the Probate Act, 755 ILCS 5/28-4, any 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE to check the Court file to verify all PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that paid. The Purchaser shall have no further be barred. interested person terminates independent FORECLOSURE LAW. information. pursuant to a Judgment of the above recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- Claims may be filed in the office of the administration at any time by mailing or Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Court entered in the above entitled cause gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Clerk of the Circuit Court at the Sangamon delivering a petition to terminate to the Practices Act you are advised that the Law Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East on December 16, 2020, the following IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- County Complex, 200 S. 9th St, Illinois, Clerk. Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) described real estate, to-wit: OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO 62701 or with the representative, or both. Claims against the estate may be filed in deemed to be a debt collector attempting 422-1719 ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, to collect a debt, and any information The purchaser of a condominium unit SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- be mailed or delivered to the representa- Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. 9th obtained will be used for that purpose. at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than COUNTY OF SANGAMON, STATE OF IL- SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION tive and to his attorney within ten days Street, Springfield, Illinois, or with the CHARLES E. LEE AND LINDA G. LEE, a mortgagee, who takes possession of LINOIS, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE after it has been filed. representative, or both, within 6 months of Plaintiff, a condominium unit pursuant to a court AS FOLLOWS: FORECLOSURE LAW. Dated: December 14, 2020 the first day that this Notice is published, Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney order or a purchaser who acquires title Permanent Index Number: 14-23.0- Law Office of Gary E. Kerr Ltd., Attorney and any claim not so filed within that Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC from a mortgagee shall have the duty 332-026 Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection for the Estate period is barred. Copies of a claim filed Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) to pay the proportionate share, if any, of Commonly known as: 1813 E. Keys Ave., Practices Act you are advised that the Law 1020 South Seventh Street with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC the common expenses for the unit which Springfield, IL 62702 Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is Springfield, Illinois 62703 to the representative and to the attorney Attorneys at Law would have become due in the absence of will be offered for sale and sold at public deemed to be a debt collector attempting 217/522-2244 within 10 days after it has been filed. P.O. Box 740 any assessment acceleration during the 6 vendue on January 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM, to collect a debt, and any information Paul Palazzolo Decatur, IL 62525 months immediately preceding institution in the Sangamon County Complex, County obtained will be used for that purpose. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Clerk of the Circuit Court Send Notice/Pleadings to: of an action to enforce the collection of Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, FOR THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Sarah Delano Pavlik – 6269250 Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) assessments, and which remain unpaid by Illinois. Plaintiff, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS DELANO LAW OFFICES, LLC Email: [email protected] the owner during whose possession the The Judgment amount is $52,854.86. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney In Re the Estate of: Attorneys for Administrator Telephone: (217) 422-1719 assessments accrued. If the outstanding The real estate is improved with a single Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC MARTHA ROSE SMITH, Deceased. One Southeast Old State Capitol Plaza Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 assessments are paid at any time during family residence. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Case No.: 2020-P-638 Springfield, Illinois 62701 20CH103 any action to enforce the collection of Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC CLAIM NOTICE Telephone: 217-544-2703 assessments, the purchaser shall have no by certified funds at the close of the sale Attorneys at Law NOTICE IS GIVEN of the death of Martha Fax: 217-544-4664 obligation to pay any assessments which payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- P.O. Box 740 Rose Smith, of Sangamon County, Illinois. [email protected] NOTICE OF SALE accrued before he or she acquired title. ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Decatur, IL 62525 Letters of Office were issued on December STATE OF ILLINOIS If this property is a condominium unit The balance, including the Judicial sale Send Notice/Pleadings to: 1, 2020, to Robert Bradford Smith, as IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH which is part of a common interest com- fee for Abandoned Residential Property Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Independent Executor, whose address IN THE CIRCUIT COURT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT munity, the purchaser of the unit at the Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Email: [email protected] is 6767 Tipple Road, Rockford, Illinois OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee lated on residential real estate at the rate Telephone: (217) 422-1719 61102, and whose attorney is Barry O. SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS shall pay the assessments required by of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 Hines, 1224 Centre West Drive, Suite In the matter of the estate of: TOWN AND COUNTRY BANC MORTGAGE the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS of the amount paid by the purchaser 19CH386 200A, Springfield, Illinois 62704. Jean Ann Orr Carlson, Deceased SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, 605/18.5 (g-1). not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or The Estate will be administered without Case No. 2020-P-661 vs. If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, wire transfer, is due within twenty-four Court supervision, unless under Section Claim Notice RANDY SHAW AKA RANDALL P. SHAW the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28- Notice is given of the death of Jean Ann JR. and BANK & TRUST COMPANY, only to a return of the purchase price mortgagee acquiring the residential real 4) any interested person terminates Orr Carlson. Letters Testamentary were Defendants. paid. The Purchaser shall have no further estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale independent administration, at any time, issued to Richard W. Carlson, as Executor, CASE NO. 20-CH-157 recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, by mailing or delivering a petition to whose attorney is Mark Cullen. Claims PROPERTY ADDRESS: gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. or other lienor acquiring the residential terminate to the Clerk. against the Estate may be filed in the Of- 2522 SOUTH 13TH ST. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- real estate whose rights in and to the
December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 19 fice of the Circuit Court at the Sangamon ADAM-ALBARRACIN estate of said coal, oil, gas and other ning. create an account with an e-filing service FEET RIGHT OF WAY FOR ADAMS STREET; County Courthouse, 200 South 9th Street, pursuant to the statute in such case made minerals, if any. PIN: 22-08.0-253-040 provider. Visit http://efile.illinoiscourts.gov/ THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 59 MINUTES Springfield, Illinois 62702, with the Execu- and provided. Situated in Sangamon County, Illinois. The address of the Special Representa- service-providers.htm to learn more and 13 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID SOUTH tor, or with the attorney, on or before, June Dated: December 10, 2020 Commonly known as 2 Interlacken Road, tive is: Harvatin Law Offices, P.C., 1100 to select a service provider. LINE A DISTANCE OF 200.81 FEET TO 17, 2021. Any claim not filed on or before Springfield, IL 62704 So. Fifth If you need additional help or have trouble THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SITUATED IN that date is barred. Copies of the claim Parcel Number(s): 22-06.0-127-002 Street, Springfield, IL 62703. You may e-filing, visit http://www.illinoiscourts. SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. filed with the clerk must be mailed or IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH The real estate is improved with a Single direct any questions you have to him, or gov/faq/gethelp.asp or talk with your local PARCEL 2: delivered to the Executor within 10 days JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Family Residence. you may circuit clerk’s office. If you cannot e-file, LOTS. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 AND 26 OF after it has been filed. SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the retain counsel of your own choosing, or you may be able to get an exemption that BULLOCKS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF Paul Palazzolo In the matter of the Petition of time of sale, a cashier’s or certified check represent yourself, or do nothing. allows you to file in-person or by mail. Ask SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS AS RECORDED IN Clerk of the Circuit Court CARLY MARIE SPURLOCK for 10% of the successful bid amount. E-filing is now mandatory for documents your circuit clerk for more information or PLAT BOOK 7 AT PAGE 53 IN THE OFFICE Attorney for Estate: For change of name to The balance of the successful bid shall in civil cases with limited exemptions. visit www.illinoislegalaid.org. OF SANGAMON COUNTY RECORDER Mark K. Cullen SAI MARIE SPURLOCK be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. To e-file, If you are unable to pay your court fees, OF DEEDS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY 3022 Panther Creek Drive Case NO.: 2020-MR-981 The subject property is offered for sale you must first create an account with you can apply for a fee waiver. For infor- DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: Springfield, IL 62711 PUBLIC NOTICE without any representation as to quality an e-filing service provider. Visit e-file. mation about defending yourself in a court BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER Public Notice is hereby given that on or quantity of title and without recourse illinoiscourts.gov/ case (including filing an appearance or fee OF LOT 26 IN SAID BULLOCKS ADDI- February 2, 2021 I will petition in said to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The service-providers.htm to learn more and waiver), or to apply for free legal help, go TION, THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 59 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Court praying for the change of name sale is further subject to confirmation by to select a service provider. If you need to www.illinoislegalaid.org. You can also MINUTES 13 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY, from CARLY MARIE SPURLOCK to SAI the Court. The property will NOT be open additional help or have trouble e-filing, ask your local circuit clerk’s office for a NORTH LINE OF AN 80.00 FEET RIGHT OF ILLINOIS MARIE SPURLOCK for inspection. visit www.illinoiscourts.gov/FAQ/gethelp. fee waiver application. WAY FOR ADAMS STREET, A DISTANCE In the Matter of the Estate of pursuant to the statute in such case made If this property is a condominium unit, the asp. PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLEC- OF 240.74 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST ANNA MARIE GRAVES, Deceased. and provided. purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure /S/ THEODORE J. HARVATIN TION PRACTICES ACT, THE PLAINTIFF’S CORNER OF LOT 21 IN SAID BULLOCKS IN PROBATE Dated: December 17, 2020 sale, other than the mortgagee shall As Special Representative for Kenneth E. ATTORNEY IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT ADDITION; THENCE NORTH 0 DEGREES 11 NO. 2020-P- 642 pay the assessments and the legal fees Stinnett, Deceased. COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT MINUTES 52 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE DEATH AND CLAIM NOTICE required by the Condominium Property THEODORE J. HARVATIN A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WILL BE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 21, A DISTANCE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Notice is given to claimants of the Estate Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). Attorney Reg. #06180268 USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. OF 158.30 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT of ANNA MARIE GRAVES, deceased. For information call Plaintiff’s Attorney, Harvatin Law Offices, P.C. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC CORNER OF SAID LOT 21, SAID CORNER SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Letters of Office were issued on Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East 1100 So. Fifth Street Attorney for Plaintiff ALSO BEING ON THE SOUTH LINE OF In the matter of the Petition of November 25, 2020, to Jacqulyn Graves, Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Springfield, IL 62703 1 N. Dearborn St. Suite 1200 A 16 FOOT ALLEY; THENCE SOUTH 89 EMMA RAE SMITH Administrator, whose attorney is Dwight Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney Tel. 217-525-0520 Chicago, IL 60602 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 03 SECONDS For change of name to O’Keefe, Brown, Hay & Stephens, 1000 US file number: 20-021394. Fax. 217-525-0901 Ph. (312) 346-9088 EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID MILES AARON SMITH Bank Building, P.O. Box 2459, Springfield, Michael A. Phelps [email protected] File No. 20-02422IL ALLEY, A DISTANCE OF 240.58 FEET Case NO.: 2020-MR-1142 IL 62705. MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC 20CH188 I3161460 TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT PUBLIC NOTICE Claims against the estate may be filed in Attorneys for Plaintiff 26 IN SAID BULLOCKS ADDITION, SAID Public Notice is hereby given that on the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, One East Wacker, Suite 1250 CORNER BEING ON THE WEST LINE OF February 16, 2021 I will petition in said Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth Chicago, IL 60601 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH AN 80.00 FEET RIGHT OF WAY FOR FIRST Court praying for the change of name Street, Springfield, IL 62701, or with the Telephone: 312-651-6700 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT STREET; THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES, 08 from EMMA RAE SMITH to MILES AARON representative, or both, on or before June Fax: 614-220-5613 COUNTY OF SANGAMON - SPRINGFIELD, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS MINUTES 24 SMITH pursuant to the statute in such 1, 2021, or three months from the date Attorney. No.: 6297416 ILLINOIS ARENA LIMITED SPV, LLC, Plaintiff, SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE case made and provided. the representative mailed or delivered a Email: [email protected] NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORT- -v.- OF SAID LOT 26, A DISTANCE OF 158.22 Dated: December 24, 2020 Notice to Creditor, whichever is later. Any 20CH187 GAGE SERVICING, VCHP SPRINGFIELD, LLC, PACKARD HOS- FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SITU- claim not filed within that period is barred. PLAINTIFF, PITALITY MANAGEMENT, LLC, UNKNOWN ATED IN THE COUNTY OF SANGAMON, IN Dated this 25th day of November, 2020. VS. OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Dwight H. O’Keefe IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTH TED HARVATIN, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE Defendant JUDICIAL CIRCUIT PARCEL 3: Brown, Hay & Stephens JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, MI- 2019 CH 177 SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE EAST 150 FEET OF THE SOUTH 1000 US Bank Building SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS CHAEL ECKHOFF; MARY ROSE; UNKNOWN NOTICE OF SALE In the matter of the Petition of 157.8 FEET OF BLOCK 17 OF THE OLD P.O. Box 2459 UNITED COMMUNITY BANK, an Illinois HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MICHAEL PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LANDEN SCOTT JACOBS TOWN PLAT OF THE TOWN, NOW CITY OF Springfield, IL 62701 banking corporation, Plaintiff, ECKHOFF, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure For change of name to SPRINGFIELD SANGAMON COUNTY ILLI- (217) 544-8491 -vs- AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, and Sale entered in the above cause LANDON SCOTT CORBRIDGE NOIS ALSO DESCRIBED AS LOT 8 AND THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF KEN- DEFENDANTS. on November 25, 2020 (the “Judgment Case NO.: 2020-MR-1199 EAST 62.2 FEET OF LOT 7, BLOCK 17 OF NETH E. STINNETT, deceased, JASON NO. 20 CH 000118 Order”), an agent for The Judicial Sales THE OLD TOWN PLAT OF THE TOWN, NOW STATE OF ILLINOIS PUBLIC NOTICE K. STINNETT, WILLIAM R. STINNETT, 1517 NORTH 5TH STREET Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, SITUATED IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Public Notice is hereby given that on UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 12, 2021, at the Sangamon County Court- IN SANGAMON COUNTY ILLINOIS. JUDICIAL CIRCUIT February 16, 2021 I will petition in said CLAIMANTS and THEODORE J. HARVATIN, JUDGE house, 200 S. Ninth Street, SPRINGFIELD, Commonly known as 101 E. ADAMS ST. SANGAMON COUNTY Court praying for the change of name As Special Representative for KENNETH E. PRESIDING JUDGE IL, 62701, sell at a public sale to the AND 125 E. ADAMS ST., SPRINGFIELD, Re: the marriage of from LANDEN SCOTT JACOBS to LANDON STINNETT, Deceased. Defendants. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION highest bidder, as set forth below, the fol- IL 62701 Dwayne Lewis Hunter. Petitioner SCOTT CORBRIDGE pursuant to the stat- No. 2020CH000188 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO YOU, lowing described real estate and personal Property Index No. 14-33-22-7-032, and ute in such case made and provided. 3021 S. Park Avenue UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF property associated therewith described 14-33-228-011, 14-34-101-007 Kala Angela Hunter, Respondent Dated: December 24, 2020 Springfield, IL 62704 MICHAEL ECKHOFF, IF ANY more fully in the Judgment Order: The real estate is improved with a hotel. Case No. 2020-D-330 TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF Unknown Owners and Non-Record PARCEL 1: The judgment amount was NOTICE BY PUBLICATION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTH KENNETH E. STINNETT, Deceased: Claimants THE SOUTH HALF OF BLOCK 17, EXCEPT $18,622,614.64 as of September 30, Notice is given you Kala Angela Hunter, JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Notice is given of the death of Kenneth E. defendants, that this case has been THE NORTH 8.00 FEET AND EXCEPT THE 2020. Respondent herein, that this cause has SANGAMON COUNTY - SPRINGFIELD Stinnett. The Court has appointed commenced in this Court against you and EAST 150.00 FEET THEREOF, OF THE OLD Sale terms:10% down of the highest been commenced against you in this court ILLINOIS Theodore J. Harvatin as Special other defendants, asking for the foreclo- TOWN PLAT OF THE TOWN, NOW CITY, OF bid by certified funds at the close of asking for a dissolution of marriage and Oceanside Mortgage Company, Plaintiff, Representative for Kenneth E. Stinnett, sure of a certain Mortgage conveying the SPRINGFIELD, the sale payable to The Judicial Sales other relief. vs. deceased, premises described as follows, to wit: ILLINOIS, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 7 Corporation. No third party checks will be Unless you file your response or otherwise Jennifer M. Roe; Unknown Owners and in the above entitled cause seeking a THE EAST 180.7 FEET OF THE SOUTH 45 AT PAGE 10 IN THE OFFICE OF THE SAN- accepted. The balance in certified funds/ file your appearance in this cause in the Non-Record Claimants, Defendants. Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale on FEET OF LOT 5 IN BEVERLY ALLEN’S SUB- GAMON COUNTY RECORDER OF DEEDS, or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four office of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon Case No. 2019CH000187 property DIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the County, in Springfield, Illinois on or before 2 Interlacken Road, Springfield, IL 62704 located at 3021 S. Park Avenue, Spring- THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION AS FOLLOWS: mortgagee acquiring the residential real the Judge Adam Giganti field, Illinois and legally described as: 22, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 5 WEST BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale 17th day of January, 2021 a judgment of NOTICE OF SALE The North 70 feet of the East 5 feet of Lot OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, SITU- OF SAID BLOCK 17, THENCE NORTH 0 or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, dissolution of marriage and other relief PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pur- 12 in Call and Landgrebe Subdivision ATED IN SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. DEGREES 08 MINUTES 24 SECONDS EAST or other lienor acquiring the residential may be granted as prayed for in the suant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and also part of Lot 37 in West Grand Place in Commonly known as: 1517 North 5th ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID BLOCK real estate whose rights in and to the resi- Petition. Sale entered in the above entitled cause the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Street 17, SAID WEST LINE ALSO BEING THE dential real estate arose prior to the sale. Paul Palazzolo on August 2, 2019, Jack Campbell will on Quarter of Section 8, Township 15 North, Springfield, IL 62702 EAST LINE OF AN 80.00 FEET RIGHT OF The subject property is subject to general Circuit Clerk January 12, 2021, at the hour of 9:00AM Range 5 West of the Third Principal and which said Mortgage was made by, WAY FOR FIRST STREET, A DISTANCE OF real estate taxes, special assessments, at the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, Meridian, the boundary of said part being Michael Eckhoff a/k/a Michael R Eckhoff 158.28 FEET TO A POINT ON A LINE 8.00 or special taxes levied against said real further described as follows: Mortgagor(s), to FEET SOUTH OF AND RUNNING PARALLEL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Sangamon County Courthouse, 200 South estate and is offered for sale without any Beginning at an iron pin, 105.0 feet North First Nationwide Mortgage Corporation WITH THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 9th Street, Second Floor, Springfield, IL representation as to quality or quantity of of a concrete monument on the East line Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office HALF OF SAID BLOCK 17; THENCE NORTH SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS 62703, sell to the highest bidder for cash, title and without recourse to Plaintiff and of Lot 37, said concrete monument being of the Recorder of Deeds of Sangamon 89 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 35 SECONDS In the matter of the Petition of the following described mortgaged real in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further 175.0 feet South of the Northeast Corner County, Illinois, as Document No. EAST ALONG SAID PARALLEL LINE A DIS- CATHERINE ADAM estate: subject to confirmation by the court. of Lot 37, thence Westerly 143.80 feet 2001R38769; and for other relief. TANCE OF 200.15 FEET TO A POINT ON A For change of name to Lot Ninety-five (95), Except the North 20 Upon payment in full of the amount bid, parallel to and 70.0 feet Southerly from UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise LINE 150.00 FEET WEST OF AND RUNNING CATHERINE ADAM-ALBARRACIN feet, in Charles S. Wanless’ Country Club the purchaser will receive a Certificate the file your appearance in this case, on or PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID Case NO.: 2020-MR-458 Acres. of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to North line of Lot 37, thence Easterly before January 25, 2021, A JUDGMENT BLOCK 17, THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES 05 PUBLIC NOTICE Except any interest in the coal, oil, gas a deed to the real estate and associated 143.70 feet along said North line of Lot OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN MINUTES 49 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID Public Notice is hereby given that on and other minerals underlying the land personal property identified in the Judg- 37 to AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN PARALLEL LINE, A DISTANCE OF 158.36 February 2, 2021 I will petition in said which have been heretofore conveyed ment Order after confirmation of the sale. an iron pin at the Northeast Corner of Lot THE COMPLAINT. FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF Court praying for the change of name or reserved in prior conveyances, and The property will NOT be open for inspec- 37, thence Southerly 70.0 feet along the E-filing is now mandatory with limited SAID BLOCK 17, SAID SOUTH LINE ALSO from CATHERINE ADAM to CATHERINE all rights and easements in favor of the tion and plaintiff makes no representation East line of Lot 37 to the Point of Begin- exemptions. To e-file, you must first BEING THE NORTH LINE OF AN 80.00
20 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 as to the condition of the property. Pro- sessments, or special taxes levied against Single-Family Residence THIS COMMUNICATION IS AN ATTEMPT TO real estate whose rights in and to the TOWN AND COUNTRY BANC MORTGAGE spective bidders are admonished to check said real estate and is offered for sale (E) The real estate will not be open for COLLECT A DEBT, mortgaged real estate arose prior to the SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, the court file to verify all information. without any representation as to quality inspection prior to sale. AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL sale. The subject property is subject to vs. If this property is a condominium unit, the or quantity of title and without recourse (F) The time and place of the sale are: BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. general real estate taxes, special assess- RANDY SHAW AKA RANDALL P. SHAW purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, Julie Beyers (#6217185) ments or special taxes levied against JR. and BANK & TRUST COMPANY, sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay sale is further subject to confirmation by in the Sangamon County Board Chambers HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC said real estate, and is offered for sale Defendants. the assessments and the legal fees the court. (2nd Floor) of the Sangamon County Attorneys at Law without any representation as to quality CASE NO. 20-CH-157 required by The Condominium Property Upon payment in full of the amount bid, Courthouse, 200 South Ninth Street, P.O. Box 740 or quantity of title and without recourse to PROPERTY ADDRESS: Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Springfield, Illinois. Decatur, IL 62525 the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The 2522 SOUTH 13TH ST. this property is a condominium unit Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a (G) The terms of the sale are cash or certi- Send Notice/Pleadings to: Sale is further subject to confirmation by SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 which is part of a common interest com- deed to the real estate after confirmation fied funds at time of sale. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) the Court. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that munity, the purchaser of the unit at the of the sale (H) The subject property is sold subject to Email: [email protected] Upon payment in full of the amount bid, pursuant to a Judgment of the above foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee The property will NOT be open for inspec- all general real estate taxes which are a Telephone: (217) 422-1719 the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Court entered in the above entitled cause shall pay the assessments required by tion and plaintiff makes no representation lien upon the real estate, all general real Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a on November 24, 2020, the following The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS as to the condition of the property. Pro- estate taxes which have not yet become 20CH151 Deed to the real estate after confirmation described real estate, to-wit: 605/18.5(g-1). spective bidders are admonished to check due and payable, with special assess- of the sale. LOT 47 OF MILDRED PARK SUBDIVISION IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- the court file to verify all information. ments, if any, and easements and restric- The property will NOT be open for inspec- OF THE NORTH 396 FEET OF THE WEST OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO If this property is a condominium unit, the tions of record, and existing leases, if any, NOTICE OF SALE tion. Prospective bidders are admonished HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure applicable zoning laws; property is sold STATE OF ILLINOIS to check the Court file to verify all OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay “AS IS, WHERE IS, and with no warran- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH information. RANGE 5 WEST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION the assessments and the legal fees ties”, and without any representation as to JUDICIAL CIRCUIT For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: MERIDIAN. 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE required by The Condominium Property quality or quantity of the title and without COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East EXCEPT THE COAL AND OTHER MINERALS FORECLOSURE LAW. Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If recourse to Plaintiff. The sale is further SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) UNDERLYING THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND For information, Ann E. Pille, REED SMITH this property is a condominium unit subject to confirmation by the Court. HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, 422-1719 HERETOFORE CONVEYED OR RESERVED LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 10 SOUTH which is part of a common interest com- IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- vs. The purchaser of a condominium unit OF RECORD. WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR, Chicago, IL, munity, the purchaser of the unit at the OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO JOHN POTTORF AKA JOHN L. POTTORF at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than SITUATED IN SANGAMON COUNTY, 60606 (312) 207-1000. foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AKA JOHN LEE POTTORF, Defendant. a mortgagee, who takes possession of ILLINOIS. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION shall pay the assessments required by AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- CASE NO. 20-CH-79 a condominium unit pursuant to a court Permanent Index Number: 22-10.0-203- One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION PROPERTY ADDRESS: order or a purchaser who acquires title 010 fka 22-10-203-010 Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE 605/18.5(g-1). 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE 212 S. 8TH STREET from a mortgagee shall have the duty Commonly known as: 2522 South 13th You can also visit The Judicial Sales IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- FORECLOSURE LAW. RIVERTON, IL 62561 to pay the proportionate share, if any, of St., Springfield, IL 62703 Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, Plaintiff PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the common expenses for the unit which will be offered for sale and sold at public status report of pending sales. REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS By: /s/ Brian D. Jones pursuant to a Judgment of the above would have become due in the absence of vendue on January 5, 2021, at 9:00 AM, REED SMITH LLP AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- One of Its Attorneys Court entered in the above entitled cause any assessment acceleration during the 6 in the Sangamon County Complex, County 10 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION Sorling Northrup on November 24, 2020, the following months immediately preceding institution Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, Chicago IL, 60606 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE Stephen A. Tagge, of Counsel – Reg. described real estate, to-wit: of an action to enforce the collection of Illinois. 312-207-1000 FORECLOSURE LAW. #2793369 Part of the West Half of the Northwest assessments, and which remain unpaid by The Judgment amount is $33,161.48. Case Number: 2019 CH 177 For information, contact Plaintiff’s attor- Brian D. Jones, of Counsel – Reg. Quarter of Section 15, Township 16 the owner during whose possession the The real estate is improved with a single TJSC#: 40-2453 ney: RANDALL S. MILLER & ASSOCIATES, #6286510 North, Range 4 West of the Third Principal assessments accrued. If the outstanding family residence. NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collec- 120 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 1140, Chi- Attorneys for Plaintiff Meridian, more particularly described as assessments are paid at any time during Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid tion Practices Act, you are advised that cago, IL, 60602, (312) 239-3432. Please One North Old State Capitol Plaza, Suite follows: any action to enforce the collection of by certified funds at the close of the sale Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt refer to file number 19IL00316-1. E-Mail: 200 Beginning at a point on the East street assessments, the purchaser shall have no payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- collector attempting to collect a debt and [email protected] P. O. Box 5131 line of Eighth Street in Riverton, Illinois, obligation to pay any assessments which ty. No third party checks will be accepted. any information obtained will be used for case # 2020 CH 000004 Springfield, IL 62705 130.00 feet South of the North line of accrued before he or she acquired title. The balance, including the Judicial sale that purpose. Telephone: (217) 544‑1144 the aforesaid South half of the North half If this property is a condominium unit fee for Abandoned Residential Property 19CH117 E-Mail: [email protected] of the East half of the West half of the which is part of a common interest com- Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH West half of the Northwest Quarter of munity, the purchaser of the unit at the lated on residential real estate at the rate JUDICIAL CIRCUIT said Section 15; thence East parallel to foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH the North line 200.00 feet; thence North shall pay the assessments required by of the amount paid by the purchaser JUDICIAL CIRCUIT BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, an Illinois banking JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 32.54 feet; thence East parallel to the the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS corporation, Plaintiff, SPRINGFIELD, SANGAMON COUNTY, South line of the said Lot 24.4 feet; thence 605/18.5 (g-1). wire transfer, is due within twenty-four UMB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT v. ILLINOIS South parallel with the West line of said If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY JEFFREY JOSEPH LANGBEHN, UNKNOWN CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC., Plaintiff, Lot 184.54 feet to a point 222.00 feet East the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled mortgagee acquiring the residential real AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR LVS TITLE OWNERS, and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, vs. of aforesaid East street line; thence West only to a return of the purchase price estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale TRUST 2018-3, Plaintiff, Defendants. THOMAS A. KOCIS AKA THOMAS KOCIS, 72.00 feet parallel to aforesaid North line; paid. The Purchaser shall have no further or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, -v.- IN CHANCERY Defendant. thence North 60.00 feet parallel to afore- recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- or other lienor acquiring the residential ANTHONY L. CATENCAMP, Defendant Case No. 2020CH000164 CASE NO. 20-CH-151 said East street line; thence West 150.00 gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. real estate whose rights in and to the 2020 CH 000004 NOTICE OF SALE PROPERTY ADDRESS: feet parallel to aforesaid North line; thence IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- mortgaged real estate arose prior to the NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that 401 CARROLL ST North on the East street line 92.00 feet to OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO sale. The subject property is subject to PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure PAWNEE, IL 62558 the point of beginning. REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS general real estate taxes, special assess- pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the court in the above‑entitled NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Except all coal, minerals and mining rights AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- ments or special taxes levied against and Sale entered in the above cause on cause the property hereinafter described NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Thomas A. Kocis heretofore conveyed of record. SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION said real estate, and is offered for sale August 19, 2020, the Sheriff of Sangamon or so much thereof as shall be sufficient aka Thomas Kocis, Defendant, this case Situated in Sangamon County, Illinois. 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE without any representation as to quality County will at 9:00 AM on January 12, to satisfy said judgment, will be sold to has been commenced in this Court Permanent Index Number: 15-15.0- FORECLOSURE LAW. or quantity of title and without recourse to 2021, at the Sangamon County Court- the highest bidder. against you and others, asking for foreclo- 105-040 Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The house, 200 S. Ninth Street, SPRINGFIELD, (A) The name, address and telephone sure of the Mortgage held by the Plaintiff Commonly known as: 212 S. 8th Street, Practices Act you are advised that the Law Sale is further subject to confirmation by IL, 62701, sell at public auction to the number of the person to contact for infor- on the property located at 401 Carroll Riverton, IL 62561 Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is the Court. highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, mation regarding the real estate is: St, Pawnee, IL 62558, more particularly will be offered for sale and sold at public deemed to be a debt collector attempting Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the following described real estate: Suzanna Scherf described as: vendue on January 5, 2021, at 9:00 AM, to collect a debt, and any information the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Lot 265 Franklin Park Estates, Eighton Ad- BANK OF SPRINGFIELD Lot 10 and the East 87 feet, except the in the Sangamon County Complex, County obtained will be used for that purpose. Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a dition. Except all coal and other minerals 3400 West Wabash Avenue North 67 feet thereof, of Lot 1 in W.R. Lo- Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, Deed to the real estate after confirmation underlying said lands, together with the Springfield, IL 62711 chridge’s Second Addition to Subdivision Illinois. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney of the sale. right to mine and remove same. Situated (217) 529-5555 of part of the South Half of the Northeast The Judgment amount is $181,684.25. Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC The property will NOT be open for inspec- in Sangamon County, Illinois. (B) The common address and other Quarter of Section 7, Township 13 North, The real estate is improved with a single Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) tion. Prospective bidders are admonished Commonly known as 2013 STOCKTON common descriptions, if any, of the real Range 4 West of the Third Principal family residence. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC to check the Court file to verify all DR., SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 estate is: Meridian. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid Attorneys at Law information. Property Index No. 22-23.0-129-028 2224 South College Street Situated in Sangamon County, Illinois. by certified funds at the close of the sale P.O. Box 740 For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: The real estate is improved with a single Springfield, IL 62704 Permanent Index Number: 36-07.0-253- payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- Decatur, IL 62525 Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East family residence. (C) The legal description of the real estate 012 fka 36-07-253-012 ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Send Notice/Pleadings to: Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) The judgment amount was $203,281.70. is as follows: Commonly known as: 401 Carroll St, The balance, including the Judicial sale Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) 422-1719 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid The South 5 feet of Lot 53 and the North Pawnee, IL 62558 fee for Abandoned Residential Property Email: [email protected] The purchaser of a condominium unit by certified funds at the close of the auc- 35 feet of Lot 52 in Charles S. Wanless’ UNLESS YOU FILE your answer or other- Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Telephone: (217) 422-1719 at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than tion; the balance, including the Judicial South First Street Subdivision. Except all wise file your appearance in this cause lated on residential real estate at the rate Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 a mortgagee, who takes possession of sale fee for Abandoned Residential coal and other minerals underlying said in the Office of the Clerk of this Court at of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof 20CH79 a condominium unit pursuant to a court Property Municipality Relief Fund, which lands, together with the right to mine and the Sangamon County Courthouse, 200 of the amount paid by the purchaser order or a purchaser who acquires title is calculated on residential real estate remove same. Situated in Sangamon South 9th Street, Room 405, Springfield, not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or from a mortgagee shall have the duty at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or County, Illinois. Commonly known as: IL 62701-1299 on or before January wire transfer, is due within twenty-four NOTICE OF SALE to pay the proportionate share, if any, of fraction thereof of the amount paid by 2224 South College Street, Springfield, 11, 2021, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the STATE OF ILLINOIS the common expenses for the unit which the purchaser not to exceed $300, in IL 62704 DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU mortgagee acquiring the residential real IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH would have become due in the absence of certified funds, is due within twenty-four Parcel Number: 22-04-407-007 FOR RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale JUDICIAL CIRCUIT any assessment acceleration during the 6 (24) hours. The subject property is subject (D) Description of the improvement on the FOR FORECLOSURE. or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, months immediately preceding institution to general real estate taxes, special as- real estate is as follows: CLERK OF THE COURT or other lienor acquiring the residential SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
December 24-30, 2020 | Illinois Times | 21 of an action to enforce the collection of Commonly known as: 2022 S. 4th St., Practices Act you are advised that the Law The property will NOT be open for inspec- dissolution of marriage and other relief IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH assessments, and which remain unpaid by Springfield, IL 62703 Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is tion. Prospective bidders are admonished may be granted as prayed for in the JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SANGAMON COUNTY, the owner during whose possession the will be offered for sale and sold at public deemed to be a debt collector attempting to check the Court file to verify all Petition. ILLINOIS assessments accrued. If the outstanding vendue on January 5, 2021, at 9:00 AM, to collect a debt, and any information information. Paul Palazzolo In the interest of I’YONNA HARRIS, a minor assessments are paid at any time during in the Sangamon County Complex, County obtained will be used for that purpose. For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Circuit Clerk Case No: 15-JA-130 any action to enforce the collection of Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East NOTICE BY PUBLICATION assessments, the purchaser shall have no Illinois. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) NOTICE IS GIVEN CHRISTYEN BARNER obligation to pay any assessments which The Judgment amount is $43,054.63. Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC 422-1719 STATE OF ILLINOIS AND UNKNOWN FATHERS, respondents, accrued before he or she acquired title. The real estate is improved with a single Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) The purchaser of a condominium unit IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH and to all whom it may concern, that on If this property is a condominium unit family residence. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF SAN- September 10, 2019 a petition was filed which is part of a common interest com- Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid Attorneys at Law a mortgagee, who takes possession of GAMON under the Juvenile Court Act by State’s munity, the purchaser of the unit at the by certified funds at the close of the sale P.O. Box 740 a condominium unit pursuant to a court MORGAN N. FOSDICK, Plaintiff, Attorney’s Office in this court and that in foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- Decatur, IL 62525 order or a purchaser who acquires title vs. courtroom of Judge Karen Tharp or any shall pay the assessments required by ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Send Notice/Pleadings to: from a mortgagee shall have the duty ANNA L. VASCONCELLES, Defendant. judge sitting in her stead in Room 7A of the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS The balance, including the Judicial sale Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) to pay the proportionate share, if any, of Case No. 2020 L 141 Sangamon County Complex, 200 South 605/18.5 (g-1). fee for Abandoned Residential Property Email: [email protected] the common expenses for the unit which ANNA L. VASCONCELLES, Counter-Plaintiff, Ninth Street, Springfield, Illinois, on JANU- If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Telephone: (217) 422-1719 would have become due in the absence of vs. ARY 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM hearing will be the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled lated on residential real estate at the rate Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 any assessment acceleration during the 6 MORGAN N. FOSDICK and KELLY FOSDICK, held upon the petition to have the minor only to a return of the purchase price of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof 20CH124 months immediately preceding institution Counter-Defendants. declared to be a ward of the court and paid. The Purchaser shall have no further of the amount paid by the purchaser of an action to enforce the collection of Case No. 2020 L 141 for other relief under the Act. THE COURT recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or assessments, and which remain unpaid by NOTICE BY PUBLICATION HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS CASE TO TAKE gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. wire transfer, is due within twenty-four NOTICE OF SALE the owner during whose possession the NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Counter-Defendant FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIAN- IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the STATE OF ILLINOIS assessments accrued. If the outstanding KELLY FOSDICK, that you are hereby SHIP OF THE MINOR. IF THE PETITION OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO mortgagee acquiring the residential real IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH assessments are paid at any time during served by publication pursuant to order REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale JUDICIAL CIRCUIT any action to enforce the collection of entered by the Honorable Gail Noll entered PARENTAL RIGHTS AND THE APPOINT- AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, assessments, the purchaser shall have no November 16, 2020 in a pending cause MENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION or other lienor acquiring the residential SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS obligation to pay any assessments which of action captioned Morgan N. Fosdick, CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE real estate whose rights in and to the CHARLES E. LEE AND LINDA G. LEE, accrued before he or she acquired title. Plaintiff, v. Anna L. Vasconcelles, Defen- ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. FORECLOSURE LAW. mortgaged real estate arose prior to the Plaintiff, If this property is a condominium unit dant, Case No 2020 L 141 wherein Kelly UNLESS YOU appear at the hearing and Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection sale. The subject property is subject to vs. which is part of a common interest com- Fosdick is a named Counter- Plaintiff. show cause to the contrary, AN ORDER OR Practices Act you are advised that the Law general real estate taxes, special assess- LEE EDWARD WILLIAMS, JR., Defendant. munity, the purchaser of the unit at the Unless you file your Answer to the JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is ments or special taxes levied against CASE NO. 20-CH-103 foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee Counter-Claim or you otherwise file you AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED deemed to be a debt collector attempting said real estate, and is offered for sale PROPERTY ADDRESS: shall pay the assessments required by Appearance in this case in the Office of IN THE PETITION. UNLESS YOU APPEAR to collect a debt, and any information without any representation as to quality 1205 CONVERSE AVE. the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Sangamon AT THE HEARING, YOU WILL NOT BE obtained will be used for that purpose. or quantity of title and without recourse to SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 605/18.5 (g-1). County Building, 200 S. Ninth Street, ENTITLED TO FURTHER WRITTEN NOTICE TOWN AND COUNTRY BANC MORTGAGE the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pur- If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, Room 405, Springfield, Illinois, 62701 on OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THIS CASE, SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, Sale is further subject to confirmation by suant to a Judgment of the above Court the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled or before January 4, 2021, A JUDGMENT INCLUDING THE FILING OF AN AMENDED Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney the Court. entered in the above entitled cause on only to a return of the purchase price OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN PETITION OR MOTION TO TERMINATE Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC Upon payment in full of the amount bid, October 14, 2020, the following described paid. The Purchaser shall have no further AGAISNT YOU FOR THE PARENTAL RIGHTS. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of real estate, to-wit: recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a LOT 49 OF RESERVOIR PARK PLACE, AN gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. December 10, 2020 Attorneys at Law Deed to the real estate after confirmation ADDITION TO THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- Paul Palazzolo STATE OF ILLINOIS P.O. Box 740 of the sale. Except all coal, oil, gas and other minerals OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO Clerk of the Circuit Court IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Decatur, IL 62525 The property will NOT be open for inspec- underlying said land, together with the REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS August M. Appleton JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Send Notice/Pleadings to: tion. Prospective bidders are admonished right to mine and remove same, hereto- AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- Attorney for Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff SANGAMON COUNTY Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) to check the Court file to verify all fore conveyed or reserved of record. SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION ARDC No.: 6304584 Sara Gillmore, Petitioner Email: [email protected] information. Situated in Sangamon County, Illinois. 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE Stratton, Moran, Reichert, Sronce And vs. Telephone: (217) 422-1719 For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Permanent Index Number: 14-22.0- FORECLOSURE LAW. Appleton Pete Robinson, Respondent Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East 477-013 Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection 725 South Fourth Street Springfield, IL Case No: 2020-OP-1879 20CH157 Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) Commonly known as: 1205 Converse Practices Act you are advised that the Law 62703 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION 422-1719 Ave., Springfield, IL 62702 Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is (217) 528-2183 Pete Robinson, this cause has been The purchaser of a condominium unit will be offered for sale and sold at public deemed to be a debt collector attempting [email protected] commenced against you in this Court NOTICE OF SALE at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than vendue on January 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM, to collect a debt, and any information asking for an Order of Protection. Unless STATE OF ILLINOIS a mortgagee, who takes possession of in the Sangamon County Complex, County obtained will be used for that purpose. you file your Answer or otherwise file your IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH a condominium unit pursuant to a court Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, CHARLES E. LEE AND LINDA G. LEE, Appearance in this cause in the Office JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SANGAMON COUNTY, JUDICIAL CIRCUIT order or a purchaser who acquires title Illinois. Plaintiff, of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon County, ILLINOIS COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, from a mortgagee shall have the duty The Judgment amount is $54,056.46. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth In the interest of MI’ONEST ROSS, a minor SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS to pay the proportionate share, if any, of The real estate is improved with a single Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC St., Room 405, Springfield, Illinois, on or Case No: 19-JA-175 HEARTLAND CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, the common expenses for the unit which family residence. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) before January 14, 2021, a judgment or NOTICE BY PUBLICATION vs. would have become due in the absence of Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC decree by default may be taken against NOTICE IS GIVEN UNKNOWN FATHERS, LINDSAY MICHELLE FAHEY SMITH, AS IN- any assessment acceleration during the 6 by certified funds at the close of the sale Attorneys at Law you for the relief asked in the complaint. respondents, and to all whom it may DEPENDENT CO-ADMINISTRATOR OF THE months immediately preceding institution payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- P.O. Box 740 Paul Palazzolo concern, that on November 17, 2020 ESTATE OF MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, of an action to enforce the collection of ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Decatur, IL 62525 Clerk of the Court a petition was filed under the Juvenile JOEL MARTIN FAHEY, AS INDEPENDENT assessments, and which remain unpaid by The balance, including the Judicial sale Send Notice/Pleadings to: Date: December 10, 2020 Court Act by State’s Attorney’s Office in CO-ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF the owner during whose possession the fee for Abandoned Residential Property Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) this court and that in courtroom of Judge MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, UNKNOWN assessments accrued. If the outstanding Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Email: [email protected] Karen Tharp or any judge sitting in her NOTICE OF SALE HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF MARTIN T. FAHEY, assessments are paid at any time during lated on residential real estate at the rate Telephone: (217) 422-1719 stead in Room 7A of Sangamon County STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND any action to enforce the collection of of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 Complex, 200 South Ninth Street, Spring- OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF assessments, the purchaser shall have no of the amount paid by the purchaser 20CH103 field, Illinois, on FEBRUARY 10, 2021 at COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, UNKNOWN obligation to pay any assessments which not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or 10:00 AM hearing will be held upon the SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST accrued before he or she acquired title. wire transfer, is due within twenty-four petition to have the minor declared to be PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF If this property is a condominium unit (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the STATE OF ILLINOIS a ward of the court and for other relief Plaintiff, MARTIN T. FAHEY, DECEASED, THERESA M. which is part of a common interest com- mortgagee acquiring the residential real IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH under the Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHOR- vs. FAHEY, LINDSAY MICHELLE FAHEY SMITH munity, the purchaser of the unit at the estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ITY IN THIS CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF and JOEL MARTIN FAHEY, Defendants. foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, SANGAMON COUNTY CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, CASE NO. 20-CH-124 shall pay the assessments required by or other lienor acquiring the residential Re: the marriage of MINOR. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLD- PROPERTY ADDRESS: the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS real estate whose rights in and to the Amanda Behymer. Petitioner TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS ERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF THOMAS 2022 S. 4TH ST. 605/18.5 (g-1). mortgaged real estate arose prior to the and AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, UNKNOWN SPRINGFIELD, IL 62703 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, sale. The subject property is subject to Jesse Behymer, Respondent WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled general real estate taxes, special assess- Case No. 2020-D-326 YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF pursuant to a Judgment of the above only to a return of the purchase price ments or special taxes levied against NOTICE BY PUBLICATION THE CHILD. UNLESS YOU appear at the THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, Court entered in the above entitled cause paid. The Purchaser shall have no further said real estate, and is offered for sale Notice is given you Jesse Behymer, hearing and show cause to the contrary, TRISTIE ANN SIDENER and WILLIAM P. on November 24, 2020, the following recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- without any representation as to quality Respondent herein, that this cause has AN ORDER OR JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE described real estate, to-wit: gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. or quantity of title and without recourse to been commenced against you in this court MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR OF THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, Lot 55 in Block 22 of PAYNE’S SOUTH IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The asking for a dissolution of marriage and THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE PETITION. Defendants. SIDE ADDITION, SECOND PLAT, to the City OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO Sale is further subject to confirmation by other relief. UNLESS YOU APPEAR AT THE HEARING, CASE NO. 19-CH-386 PROPERTY AD- of Springfield, Illinois. Except all coal, REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS the Court. Unless you file your response or otherwise YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO FURTHER DRESS: minerals and mining rights heretofore AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- Upon payment in full of the amount bid, file your appearance in this cause in the WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDINGS 1813 E. KEYS AVE. conveyed or reserved of record. Situated SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of office of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon IN THIS CASE, INCLUDING THE FILING OF SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 in SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a County, in Springfield, Illinois on or before AN AMENDED PETITION OR MOTION TO PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that Permanent Index Number: 22-04.0-430- FORECLOSURE LAW. Deed to the real estate after confirmation the TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS. pursuant to a Judgment of the above 006 fka 22-04-430-006 Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection of the sale. 17th day of January, 2021 a judgment of
22 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 24-30, 2020 Court entered in the above entitled cause gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Unwanted pressure Edited by J. Reynolds - No. 668 Puzzle answers on December 16, 2020, the following IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- described real estate, to-wit: OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN from this week ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN will appear here COUNTY OF SANGAMON, STATE OF IL- ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (c) LINOIS, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLO- next week AS FOLLOWS: SURE LAW. LOT FIFTY-FIVE (55) IN SPAULDING’S SEC- Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection OND ILLINOIS WATCH FACTORY ADDITION. Practices Act you are advised that the Law Permanent Index Number: 14-23.0-332- Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is 026 deemed to be a debt collector attempting Commonly known as: 1813 E. Keys Ave., to collect a debt, and any information Springfield, IL 62702 obtained will be used for that purpose. will be offered for sale and sold at public PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, vendue on January 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM, Plaintiff, in the Sangamon County Complex, County Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfield, Illinois. Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC The Judgment amount is $52,854.86. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) The real estate is improved with a single HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC family residence. Attorneys at Law Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid P.O. Box 740 by certified funds at the close of the sale Decatur, IL 62525 Crossword answers from #667 payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- Send Notice/Pleadings to: ty. No third party checks will be accepted. Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) The balance, including the Judicial sale Email: [email protected] fee for Abandoned Residential Property Telephone: (217) 422-1719 Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 lated on residential real estate at the rate 19CH386 of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire STATE OF ILLINOIS transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH hours. No fee shall be paid by the mort- JUDICIAL CIRCUIT gagee acquiring the residential real estate SANGAMON COUNTY pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by Michael Emerson Petitioner any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other vs. lienor acquiring the residential real estate Steven Behl, Jr., Respondent whose rights in and to the mortgaged real Case No: 2020-OP-1423 Sudoku answers from #667 estate arose prior to the sale. The subject NOTICE BY PUBLICATION property is subject to general real estate Steven Behl, Jr. , this cause has been taxes, special assessments or special commenced against you in this Court taxes levied against said real estate, and is asking for an Order of Protection. Unless offered for sale without any representation you file your Answer or otherwise file your as to quality or quantity of title and without Appearance in this cause in the Office recourse to the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon County, condition. The Sale is further subject to Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth confirmation by the Court. St., Room 405, Springfield, Illinois, on or Upon payment in full of the amount bid, before January 28, 2021, a judgment or the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of decree by default may be taken against Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a you for the relief asked in the complaint. Deed to the real estate after confirmation Paul Palazzolo of the sale. Clerk of the Court The property will NOT be open for inspec- Date: December 24, 2020 tion. Prospective bidders are admonished JoshJosh answers from #667 to check the Court file to verify all informa- tion. For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East JoshJosh by J. Reynolds - No. 668 Sudoku No. 668 Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) Fill the grid with digits so as not to repeat a digit in any row or column, Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains 422-1719 and so that the digits within each heavily outlined box will produce the every digit from 1 to 9 inclusive. The purchaser of a condominium unit target number shown, by using addition, subtraction, multiplication or at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, who takes possession of division, as indicated in the box. A 6x6 grid will use 1-6. a condominium unit pursuant to a court order or a purchaser who acquires title from a mortgagee shall have the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration during the 6 months immediately preceding institution of an action to enforce the collection of assessments, and which remain unpaid by the owner during whose possession the assessments accrued. If the outstanding assessments are paid at any time during any action to enforce the collection of assessments, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by the Condomini- um Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5 (g-1). If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price Difficulty medium Difficulty medium paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort-
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