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Continuing a sheriff sale does not violate the automatic stay

Representing a lender in a long drawn out battle with a borrower over a nonpayment on a balloon mortgage.  The note was secured by a vacate 3 story industrial property.  Foreclosure was strenuously contested.  Twice the borrower filed for Chapter 11 protection on the eve of the sheriff’s sale.  In Illinois a sheriff’s sale terminates…