Friday Dec 25 | via News-Sun
It has been a year of living by faith for Bonny Goldberg, a Park City woman who has beat back cancer and the threat of foreclosure with a faith and a resolve as steely as the rod that now attaches her spinal cord to her head. Comment?
Saturday Dec 12 | via News-Sun
Two men are spearheading a concerted effort to improve the quality of rental property in North Chicago, especially for low-income tenants. Comment?
Friday Dec 11 | via News Sun
NEW VEEP: Matthew Saleski has been named vice president of marketing for Sun-Times Media. Comment?
IDOT auctioning Lake County home
Sunday Dec 6 | via Daily Herald
Chris Mueller, property manager with the Illinois Department of Transportation, checks out the kitchen of a Hawthorn Woods home that originally was in one of the alternate paths for the Route 53 extension. Comment?
Lake County foreclosures jump 82 pct.
Nov 14, 2009 | via 301 Moved Permanently
Home foreclosures rose drastically this summer in some Lake County communities, but maybe not the ones you would expect. Comment?
Ill. to use mortgage database licensing system
13 hrs ago | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Illinois is embracing a licensing database that officials say will help ensure the competency of mortgage loan professionals. Comment?
Market MoverA Financial Prescription for the Globe
Yesterday | via American Reporter
Until yesterday your choices for depositing safe money around the globe were basically Ireland, Germany or the Mafia. Comment?
Illinois AG to Fed: End Incentives for High-Risk Mor...
Tuesday | via Housing Wire
Illinoisa attorney general Lisa Madigan urged the Federal Reserve to end financial incentives for loan officers and mortgage brokers for the types of loans written for borrowers. Comment?
This Will Help You Avoid Investment Disaster
Tuesday | via The Motley Fool
With all the financial innovation that has occurred in the past decade, it's easy to lull yourself into a false sense of security by relying on your gut impression of a particular investment. Comment?
Monday Dec 28 | via The Capitol Fax Blog
4 Story of the Decade: Economic downturn hits central Illinois Thanks to early retirement incentives, agency consolidation and layoffs, state employment of 19,600 in Springfield at the beginning of the decade is down to approximately 17,200 by decadea s end. Comment?
Fannie, Freddie thrown a lifeline
3 min ago | via CapeCodOnline.com
The government's Christmas Eve pledge of unlimited financial aid to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is aimed at making sure the housing market doesn't take another turn for the worse and cause the economic recovery to unravel. Comment?
3 min ago | via CapeCodOnline.com
The government yesterday provided a fresh $3.8 billion cash infusion to stabilize GMAC Financial Services as the financing company struggles with hefty losses in its home mortgage unit. Comment?
Anxiety produced a Christmas classic
3 min ago | via Herald-Mail
With no question to answer for December, and with thoughts on the holiday season, it should be appropriate to remember something about the second greatest Christmas story ever told. Comment?
Details of one Goldman deal reveal lopsided conflicts
5 min ago | via Blackstone Valley Tribune
Some banks were only too happy to take big bets from Goldman against the housing market. Comment?
Facing foreclosure, Sagamore Hotel seeks salvation w...
44 min ago | via MiamiHerald.com - Miami & Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Dolphins & More
A lender is trying to foreclose on the Sagamore Hotel, which claims to have a solution to its money woes: a Playboy Club. Comment?