Mary Ellen Podmolik – Page 24

North Shore housing efforts still have miles to go

May 20, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

Back in November, Open Communities, a Winnetka-based nonprofit advocacy group, started a Tumblr page called wearethenorthshore. People were, and still are, invited to take pictures of themselves holding a sign...

Illinois will receive $300 million in Bank of America settlement

June 17, 2018 at 10:17 a.m.

Bank of America and the Justice Department have reached a record settlement of almost $17 billion to end a long-running probe into the marketing and sale of toxic mortgage securities...

Chicago-area home sales drop but prices up from year ago

June 17, 2018 at 10:49 a.m.

July sales of existing homes in the Chicago area dropped 8 percent but median prices continued to beat their year-ago comparisons. The report Thursday from the Illinois Association of Realtors...

Quinn kills bill to cap assessments tied to foreclosed condo sales

June 18, 2018 at 8:36 a.m.

Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday killed a bill that would have limited the amount of money due to a condominium association when a foreclosed unit is sold.The governor, who had...

The New York Life Building in Chicago's Loop is slated to become a Kimpton hotel.

Kimpton buys landmark Loop building for new hotel

June 17, 2018 at 10:32 a.m.

Kimpton Hotel & Restaurants announced plans Tuesday to convert a historic LaSalle Street office building into a four-star hotel in what would be its fifth adaptive reuse project in Chicago....

Contractors place insulation into the walls on a home under renovation in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.

Institutional investors losing interest in Chicago-area housing

June 18, 2018 at 9:01 a.m.

Investors that bought at least 10 single-family homes and condominiums in a year -- a measure designed to exclude activity by mom-and-pop rehabbers and flippers -- accounted for only 4.9...

Mortgage rates tick downward

June 17, 2018 at 11:04 a.m.

A week of few economic reports helped nudge down mortgage interest rates this week. The average rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage this week was back at its 2014 low...

Foreclosure activity continues to fall in Chicago area, U.S.

June 17, 2018 at 10:57 a.m.

Foreclosure activity in the Chicago area decreased in July but the state continues to have one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, according to data released Thursday. In...

Apartment repossession law has offered no bite

June 18, 2018 at 8:55 a.m.

Almost 11 months after an ordinance took effect to protect tenants in foreclosed, repossessed rental buildings within Chicago, no enforcement tickets have been issued or fines assessed against building owners....

Rainbow flags are on display as two men watch this year's Chicago Pride Fest from a window in the Lakeview neighborhood.

‘Gayborhoods’ are changing, researcher finds

June 17, 2018 at 11:37 a.m.

The number of gay enclaves in Chicago and other large cities is on the increase but a deconcentrated population, while good from a societal standpoint, could lead to a more...

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