Home loan interest rates have dipped for five straight weeks, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage now at 6.67 percent.

Landlords and managers say that the ordinance was rushed through the City Council with virtually no input from apartment owners and the real estate industry. The ordinance purports to “preserve ...

Who’s big and who’s small? It’s all in your perception with the Beuchet Chair illusion at Museum of Illusions. Photos provided by Museum of Illusions except where noted. (Click on images to view ...

By Don DeBat Sep. 10, 2023 – Chicago apartment dwellers likely will see hefty rent increases in early 2024, according to a new national forecast. For the first time in 20 years, Chicago’s apartment ...

(Above) Looking south down south branch of Chicago River in 2018. Wolf Point West at right. Photo by Sean Pavone. By Don DeBat Apr. 3, 2025 – Apartment hunters on the North Side of Chicago this spring ...

By Steven Dahlman Nov. 30, 2021 – A ransomware attack on a property management company in Chicago did not get ransom but exposed personal information about unit owners and prospective unit owners at ...

By Don DeBat Nov. 19, 2024 – Tens of thousands of home and small apartment owners in Chicago likely breathed a sigh of relief when Mayor Brandon Johnson dropped his proposal for a $300 million ...

By Steven Dahlman May 1, 2025 – Jewelry and designer leather goods valued at $40,300 were taken from a condominium unit at John Hancock Center in March, according to a police report, but the thief may ...

Attached home sales up for year and 4Q Inventory was less of a concern in the condo market although the inventory of attached homes for sale at the end of the year was down 40.6 percent from its level ...

(Above) “5,000 bucks. It’s all there, pal,” says John Belushi (left) as Joliet Jake Blues to Steven Spielberg, as a clerk in the Cook County Assessor’s office, in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.

His legacy? What Falls considers his legacy are the long-term relationships he formed with the community, as well as supporters of the arts and political leaders such as Mayor Richard M. Daley. “Being ...

(Above) View of North Side of Chicago from John Hancock Center. By Don DeBat Jul. 24, 2023 – Squeezed by sharply higher mortgage interest rates and a shortage of home listings, Chicago’s North Side ...