The Home Front

Second of two articles on community-association living. Imagine you are British seaman Fletcher Christian serving under the lash of the...

Chicago has spent big bucks on elite Loop and near-downtown neighborhood projects to maintain its “world-class city” status, but its...

Prospective home and condominium buyers may have been shocked by the sharp downturn in the stock market last week, but as a result they...

Are you a senior-citizen homeowner who recently received the second installment of your 2014 property tax bill in the mail from the Cook...

While members of the embattled Illinois Legislature are fighting with Gov. Bruce Rauner over the state’s pension problems and inflated...

It’s property-tax time again in Chicago and Cook County, and like death, higher real estate taxes are inevitable in the Windy City. Tens...

Like stock-market investors sitting on the sidelines, major downtown Chicago condominium developers are scratching their heads and...

Now that the once sprawling and infamous Cabrini Green public housing project has vanished into the sands of time, developers are busy...

With residential resale prices in Chicago rising at a double-digit clip, experts say it won’t be long before the Millennial generation...

With Chicago’s bond rating down to junk levels and the city going broke, is a downtown casino a gamble? Or is it a sure way to raise the...

Million-dollar-plus homes and condominiums sold at a fast clip in Chicago in early 2015, but the threat of higher mortgage interest rates...

Are Chicago condominium buyers and sellers being gouged by greedy management firms who jack up the price of mandatory documents and...