This year, more than 11,000 loans have already been insured, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.Source: Chicago Tribune, Mary Ellen Podmolik (08/14/2009)

My bank's trust department held my exchange funds for my last four exchanges and deposited the funds in an interest bearing account.

Isn't this surprising out of a Chicago politician?

According to the May 2009 Case Shiller data: San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Detriot, Minneapolis, Charlotte, New York, Cleveland, Portland, and Dallas show increases from April.

This is just going to boil down to what the market will bear, how your property shows, and how competent your manager is.

The local media called them protest pits.City code enforcers attempted to strong arm local businesses near the convention to install wrought-iron fences, despite the fact that no such City of Chicago ordinances required such fences.

On the microlevel, I am finding Chinese people in the Chicago real estate market as conventional and foreclosure buyers, and most of the time they come with cash.

Not to mention my family is all HUGE packer fans and Im from chicago... so its natural to hate him even though I am a rams fan.

I'm actually in the process of closing on a home that was a real bear to get to underwriting.Mortgage companies are very strict right now.

Well Jason's reply that it is not a unlawful thing to do when placing a for sale sign in front of a property may apply in Chicago I don't know.But in the states I've done business it is.