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In the final chapter of the ongoing Tom Dart Eviction Saga, Sheriff Dart has said that with the new court procedures in place, he will resume evictions on Monday. Dart hopes the new orders will ensure that the banks will properly notify rent-paying tenants of foreclosures on the buildings they live in.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that he would stop enforcing evictions of rent-paying tenants when the order is actually aimed at a landlord who are being foreclosed on for not paying their mortgage. In a column published in the Sun-Times, Dart wrote:

What isn't part of our job, however, is to carry out work on behalf of the multi-billion-dollar banks and mortgage industries.

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