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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said he’s ordered his deputies to stop taking part in evictions of properties that have been foreclosed upon.
Dart said the change goes into effect Thursday, and he said the decision comes because many of those being evicted are people who’ve been faithfully paying rent and didn’t even know about the foreclosures.
Dart said he thinks he’s the first sheriff in a major metropolitan area to stop such evictions during what’s become a major foreclosure crisis around the nation.
He said the number of mortgage foreclosures in Cook County has skyrocketed this year and that he expects that number to climb much higher.
County Board president Todd Stroger applauded the decision.
“This effort will ensure that County residents are afforded every right and courtesy under the law when the building they live in has been foreclosed by a bank,” Stroger said in a statement. “Sheriff Dart recognizes that Cook County is in the business of preventing homelessness, not exacerbating it, and this move ensures that literally hundreds of families each month are saved the heartbreak of being evicted from their homes.”
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