The Home Front

(Above) Driver Shane van Gisbergen competes in a NASCAR Cup Series race at Grant Park on July 6 (AP Photo/Erin Hooley). Residents and...

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

The Chicago North Side home resale market has transformed into a tense battleground, with buyers scrambling to secure properties as...

(Above) Google Street View of 200 West Monroe Street in the Loop. Valued at $100 million when purchased in 2014, the 23-story building...

(Above) Buildings in the Old Town Historic District. Photo by Don DeBat. With a 36-story apartment tower set to rise in Old Town, and the...

(Above) Row of older brick homes in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, where property taxes increased an average of $2,508 from last...

(Above) American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France, on July 11, 1944. Photo obtained from National Archives....

March 2025 saw surprising resilience in North Side home sales, with existing sales up 8.4 percent from the previous year, as buyers...

Appeals increased by 11 percent over 2023 as property owners in Chicago and surrounding suburbs turned to the Cook County Board of Review...