DON’T: Ignore a court summons!
DO: Go to court on your court date and file an owner’s answer!
DON’T: Throw away any papers from your mortgage lender!
DO: Keep and organize all your papers!
DON’T: Give up and start packing!
DO: Stay in your home!
Where am I in the foreclosure process?
Here is a very simplified timeline of the foreclosure process in Illinois.
If you just started court proceedings…
Get a lawyer. You can file motions to challenge your eviction and at least buy more time. If you can’t afford a lawyer, these groups may also be able to help:
- Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (312) 341-1070 (Cook County/Chicago)
- Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (312) 347-8390 or (312) 347-7600 (Chicago)
- Cabrini Green Legal Aid (312) 738-2452 (Chicago)
- Cook County Foreclosure Mediation (877) 895-2444 (Cook County)
- Legal Aid Bureau (312) 986-4200 (Chicago)
- Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Services (CARPLS) 312-378-9200 (Cook County/Chicago)
- Prairie State Legal Services (800) 531-7057 (Northern Illinois)
- Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation (877) 342-7891 (Southern Illinois)
If you want to file “pro se” (without a lawyer), this website can guide you through filing some common motions: www.illinoislegalaid.org.
If you’re about to be put out and want to fight it…
Find a chapter of Communities United or Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign closest to where you live and come to the next meeting. Or, email us about how you can organize and enforce the human right to housing in your own community!
Hi! Heard about ur group from a good friend & co-worker. There was a meeting at 1 south Wacker last night? How did that go?
I am really thankful that u have listed numbers for homeowners to get help
thank u for helping us to make a difference!
It’s too easy to just give up fighting, I can’t even tell from living in a condominium & getting Kass management that is where I pay for on my association fee are feeling so freely to jump up my amount of 171.00 to 300.00! In less than 6 years, I am married but my spouse is unemployed. He thinks we can just move into a friends & rent out a house :-/