know your legal rights!
Borrowers have rights when they are going through the foreclosure process. The state of Illinois just filed a lawsuit against one the nation’s largest firms that maintains foreclosed homes for lenders. The suit alleges that the firm broke into the homes of families that were behind in their mortgage or in foreclosure, locked them out and removed their belongings.
Under Illinois law, homeowners who have missed mortgage payments and are in foreclosure can remain in their homes until the court-supervised foreclosure process is completed and a judge has entered an order of possession against them. Also, tenants living in rental buildings in foreclosure can stay until the lease expires, even if the foreclosure process has been completed and the building has been repossessed.
If you believe you were discriminated in the work place against becasue of your race, sex, religion and/or national origin and you worked in the City of Chicago, you can file a claim, free of charge and without the need of an attorney with four governmental agencies: the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations; the Cook County Human Rights Commission; the Illinois Department of Human Rights; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
