PUBLICATION NOTICE

PUBLICATION NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF KNOX CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF YATES CITY, an Illinois banking corporation, Plaintiff v. William B. Bean, Non-record Claimants, Unknown Owners, and Unknown Tenants, Defendants. Case No. 2025FC72 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Nonrecord Claimants, Unknown Owners, and Unknown Tenants, Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Knox County, Illinois, by the Plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: All that part of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 13, in ELBA TOWNSHIP, Township 10 North, Range 4 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian, lying South of the Right-of-way of Interstate Route 74, described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest Corner of said East Half of said Northeast Quarter of Section 13, running thence East along a Section line to the Southeast corner of said East Half of said Northeast Quarter of Section 13, thence North 49.56 feet, thence Northwesterly on the South line of the Right-of-way of said Interstate Route 74 to a point on the West line of said East Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 13, thence South to the Point of Beginning, situated in the County of Knox and the State of Illinois. PIN: 16-13-200-004 Property address: 950 E. Knox Road, Elmwood, Illinois 61529 And which said mortgage was made by William B. Bean, as Mortgagor, to Bank of Yates City, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Knox County, Illinois, as Document Number 1075604 on November 2, 2021, And for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the said Circuit Court of Knox County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendants, file your answer to the complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance in the Office of the Knox County Circuit Clerk, at the Courthouse in the City of Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, on or before thirty (30) days from the date of this publication, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a decree entered in accordance with the prayer of the complaint. Dated: December 23, 2025, at Galesburg, Illinois. /Mary Ostrander/ Mary Ostrander, Clerk of the Circuit Court Knox County, Illinois NANCY A. SCHELL Froehling, Weber & Schell, LLP, 167 West Elm Street, Canton IL 61520 309/647-6317, Attorneys for Plaintiff, nschell@fwslawyers.com January 27, February 3, 10 2026 LILS0445991