Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign

June 2, 2011

Chicago–Cook County’s Anti-Eviction Campaign activities include rallies, meetings with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, door-to-door canvassing in Chicago neighborhoods where there are many foreclosures and talking to people who come to foreclosure court.

On March 24 we rallied at Bank of America with a pink pig made of wire and tape that was filled with gold [=>]

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‘No foreclosures! I’m not leaving my house!’

March 2, 2011

On Jan. 13 Silvia Baca appeared in Housing Court and found that the loan company had sold her house on Nov. 4–for one-fourth what she and her husband had paid. Below is the history of her ongoing struggle against eviction.

Chicago–My husband and I bought a house in 2006. A year later, we wanted to refinance. [=>]

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Sheriff Dart on notice

November 17, 2010

From the Nov.-Dec. 2010 issue of News & Letters:

Sheriff Dart on notice

Chicago–In Illinois, a five-day notice is supposed to be given before you are evicted. (It doesn’t always happen.) On Oct. 14, we gave Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart his own five-day notice demanding a moratorium on all economically based evictions. This is the latest [=>]

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