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Homes in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood are seen in 2012.
Over the last year, Bridgeport/Brighton Park was among the areas with the largest percentage increases in home values, according to data from the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University.

Some Chicago neighborhoods, suburbs lag in housing recovery, study says

June 10, 2018 at 12:45 p.m.

Home values in hot areas of Chicago's North Side have fully recovered from the housing crash, but homeowners in other city neighborhoods and Cook County's suburbs continue to hold homes...

A <a href="../edit/87190786"><span class="s2">University of Michigan</span></a> economics professor Susan Dynarski is challenging the argument that millennials are unable to buy homes due to college debt.

Research debunks notion that debt-laden grads won’t be buying homes

May 28, 2019 at 4:37 p.m.

Is college debt truly keeping a generation of young adults from buying homes? That's been the popular storyline as people in their 20s have shunned the housing market since the...

TransUnion CEO Jim Peck is seen May 4, 2016, in his West Loop office. Peck, who arrived at TransUnion in 2012, has been transforming it into a complex analytics company, mining the data it collects.

Credit bureau TransUnion moving into data analytics

June 11, 2018 at 10:56 p.m.

You may not have heard of TransUnion, but it knows you. Buried within the company's massive computer database in Chicago's West Loop is a long trail of your financial past,...

Left to right, designer Jessica Lagrange, architect Marc Trudeau and builder Matthew Ehrard, speaking and answering questions for real estate professionals at 189 E. Lake Shore Dr., in Chicago, on Wednesday May 11, 2016. The owners, John Kern and his wife Anne, have been trying to sell the condo.

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Chicago-area luxury home sales slowing down

June 11, 2018 at 10:35 p.m.

Homebuyers are racing each other to make offers on lower-priced homes and condos in many parts of the Chicago area, but the luxury housing market is seeing just the opposite....

Furnished apartments with a rental twist going up in the South Loop

June 11, 2018 at 11:05 p.m.

In the latest twist in the "sharing economy," an apartment building under construction in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood will lease beds in fully furnished apartments to a mixture of college...

Are you financially smarter than a sixth-grader?

May 23, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

Remember the hit book, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"? Well, I met the sixth-graders who could write "All I Really Need to Know About Money...

South Side houses and Lake Michigan on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015.

Program to help strapped homeowners will aid only tiny percentage in Chicago: study

June 10, 2018 at 3:32 p.m.

A new national program aimed at helping people with overwhelming mortgage debt is only going to give relief to 1.1 percent of those borrowers in the Chicago area, according to...

Prince’s death illustrates importance of having a will

June 10, 2018 at 3:41 p.m.

Pop music star Prince apparently died without writing a will, and it's likely that his relatives and business contacts will be fighting in a Minnesota court for years over his...

Illinois' Secure Choice program would allow small businesses to create IRAs for their employees. But the program is getting push back from critics.

Illinois small-business retirement plan faces resistance

June 10, 2018 at 2:04 p.m.

As Illinois moves toward becoming a national model in retirement savings for small-business workers, the designers of the state's new Secure Choice IRA plan were warned this week that if...

Chicago home prices among slowest-rising in the U.S.

June 10, 2018 at 9:07 p.m.

Prices of homes in 20 major cities climbed 5.4 percent over the previous year, but Chicago is among the two cities with the smallest gains, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home...

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