A paperwork mistake and a tug-of-war between Cook County and his bank now threaten to take away the home one veteran fought ...

Embattled New York-based attorney Mark Nussbaum and his deal partner, Eli Tauber, are now the subject of a combined 29 foreclosure lawsuits for real estate across the South and West sides of Chicago ...

Under Cook County’s rules, veterans with service-connected disabilities certified by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ...

The number of Chicago-area homes in foreclosure was lower in 2018 than anytime since at least 2006, before the dawn of the nation's foreclosure crisis, and an analyst suggests it's a sign that a ...

Chicago-area fair housing groups will get a $4 million share of a settlement with a national mortgage finance agency over alleged discriminatory handling of foreclosed homes in Black and Latino ...

That’s how many housing units faced foreclosure in the Chicago area during the first quarter of 2012, according to RealtyTrac. Among the 212 U.S. metro areas evaluated by the company, Chicago had the ...

As some pandemic protections for homeowners come to an end, Chicago housing advocates say communities, especially in the city’s pandemic-hit south and west, are at risk. Almost 160,000 Illinois ...

Homeowners behind in their mortgage payments because of a mountain of medical debt may be among those eligible for some relief under a new Cook County program. A 2008 Harvard Law School study of ...

The numbers tell the sad and scary story. Thousands of Chicago-area families are facing the loss of their homes. In DuPage County, foreclosure filings climbed from 1,886 in 2006 to 4,470 in 2008, a ...

Christian Chase knows foreclosures. He should—his past seven homes have all been foreclosures that he bought, cleaned up and (except for the one he lives in now) put back on the market. “To me, it ...

CHICAGO - The Federal Housing Finance Agency, as conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, filed a federal complaint against Chicago, accusing the city of unlawfully imposing excise taxes on its sale ...