Foreclosure filings in Cook County dropped 9.5 percent in August from a year ago and plummeted 32 percent from July, according to a report from Realty...
ABC7 Chicago | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown says her office has found more than $18 million in mortgage surplus money that belongs to people who los...
AP | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago-Naperville-Joliet metropolitan area had the highest home foreclosure rate in Illinois for the first half of the year. A r...
The Atlantic | James Warren | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
Amid the more academic debate over President Obama's Supreme Court nomination, there's a melancholy reality check, and street-level window onto harsh ...
Associated Press | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
The number of Illinois households threatened with losing their homes rose 62% percent in February from last year's levels, more than twice the nationa...
Medill Reports | Malia Spencer | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
From her Bronzeville branch office on South King Drive, Michelle Collins strives to solve the community's foreclosure problem one loan at a time. Col...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago
Warning that the foreclosure crisis puts Chicago's tax base and "entire blocks" at risk, Mayor Daley on Thursday outlined plans to use $55 million in ...
Daily Herald | Joseph Ryan | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Senate Democrat, is pushing for the federal government to share losses on mortgage defaults to prod ...
Chicago Tribune | Becky Yerak | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago
The number of foreclosures in the Chicago area in 2008 is expected to rise nearly 40 percent to more than 53,000, a housing industry research group sa...
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago
Sometimes one person's misfortune can become another's opportunity. That's what's happened in a foreclosed building in Chicago. The owner abandoned th...
Chicago Public Radio | Tasha Flournoy | Posted 12.13.2008 | Chicago
Citigroup announced today a moratorium on some home foreclosures. The news comes as foreclosures in the Chicago region continue to skyrocket. Over th...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago
One in 510 homes in Illinois were in some stage of foreclosure in September, a slight improvement from August but almost 24 percent higher than in a y...
Chicago Tribune | Azam Ahmed | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
Just off the elevators on the 28th floor of the Daley Center, a scene of arresting beauty unfolds. Sunlight glints off Lake Michigan, high-definition ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago
(Crain's) -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced it's giving $68 million to Chicago-area organizations to help battle the home...
Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE The Cook County Sheriff's office will resume mortgage foreclosure evictions Monday, October 20th. Sheriff Dart agreed to end his brief morator...
Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is helping to uphold state law with his eviction moratorium: People...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRANCINE KNOWLES | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago