Who Filed Bankruptcy

Did Blackrock Medical Corporation file for bankruptcy?

Yes. A bankruptcy case naming Blackrock Medical Corporation is on the docket of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under Chapter 7.

CompanyBlackrock Medical Corporation
Case number17-33459
CourtNorthern District of Illinois (IL)
Chapter7
Activity we recorded1 docket entry, 2026-07-28

What Chapter 7 — liquidation means

The business stops operating. A trustee is appointed to sell whatever assets exist and distribute the proceeds in an order set by statute.

If you are owed money. Secured creditors and priority claims are paid first. Unsecured trade creditors sit near the back of that queue, and in many chapter 7 business cases there is nothing left by the time the queue reaches them.

Docket activity we recorded

DateEntry
2026-07-28 Trustee: Desmond, Michael K [Hearing Concluded (Other)] 32

We hold more case records than docket histories, and the difference matters. Case records — who filed, which court, which chapter, what date — come from the public historical court record and reach back years. Docket entries come from the courts' live filing feeds, which carry only about 24 hours at a time, and we began archiving those on 28 July 2026.

So a case may show a full record and no entries, or three entries when the real docket has three hundred. An empty or short list of entries is a gap in our collection, never a statement that nothing happened.

For the complete and authoritative docket, use PACER or the court directly.

Checking this yourself

Everything above comes from the public federal court record: the courts' own CM/ECF filing feeds, and CourtListener RECAP archive maintained by the Free Law Project. The authoritative source is the court: search case 17-33459 in the Northern District of Illinois on PACER, which is the official system and charges per page.

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