Sheriff plans to halt foreclosure evictions -- again

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October 19, 2010 12:21 PM | 7 Comments | UPDATED STORY

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he won't carry out evictions by banks who have admitted "questionable" foreclosure practices until they can provide "complete assurance that the foreclosure was done properly and legally."

Dart says he plans to halt about 1,300 evictions -- starting Monday -- unless the lenders can provide an affidavit that "everything was done properly."

Dart, mulling a run for mayor, insisted at a news conference this morning that the move is not political grandstanding. "This issue has been near and dear to our hearts for years," he said.

Dart did the same two years ago after finding out many of the people his deputies were forcing from their homes had paid their rent faithfully and didn't know their landlords were having financial problems.

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[Bonhomme Richard]

1. 1300 evictions. Think about that number and that's 1 sheriff. n/t

[happyslug]

2. It is also Cook County, whose county seat is CHICAGO.

Sheriff's sale varies from county to county. In my home state of Pennsylvania, some counties hold them every month (Allegheny County, county seat, the City of Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia County are two such countries). My County, Cambria, County Seat Ebensburg but main city in Johnstown, holds them once every three months. To hold them more often can lead to months without a sale. Other Counties only hold them "as needed" or "as requested". These tend to be the rural counties. Execution sales (The proper name for what people call "Sheriff's sales") can be held once a year in some counties (and I suspect even less often in some of the mountain counties given the total lack of population in those counties).

Just a comment that 1300 sales in the Cook County Illinois is so large to the large population in Cook County do to it also being the City of Chicago. The rest of the Country will have a lot less Execution sales at any one time AND over the year.

[Radical Activist]

3. From the leading contender to defeat Rahm for mayor of Chicago.

FYI.