The Home Front

Runaway real estate tax hikes have been a major problem in Chicago and Cook County for decades, especially in tony North Side city...

For property owners in Chicago’s wealthy neighborhoods—from the Gold Coast and Old Town to Lincoln Park and Lakeview—the outlook for...

Pandemic-weary Americans are huddling around hearth and home for the holidays, trying desperately to muster some Christmas cheer....

While COVID-19 virus cases and deaths continue to soar, the city’s endless big-party nightlife scene still is rocking and rolling....

Despite the novel virus plague, racial protests, downtown looting and general political unrest, Chicago’s North Side housing market not...

Borrowing money to fund the purchase or refinance of a home this autumn may never again be this affordable, experts say. On October 22nd,...

Voting in the 2020 Presidential election celebrates the 100th-year anniversary of the passage of the landmark voting rights amendment in...

Chicago property owners are financially battered from years of being slapped with higher real estate taxes and municipal fees, so it’s...

Chicago, the city of big shoulders, has done a remarkable job of preserving many of its vintage buildings and utilizing a concept called...

Will thousands of North Side and Northwest Side property owners continue to be haunted in 2020 and 2021 by the ghost of former Cook...

The Indian-loving Lane Tech tribe is on the warpath. Potential removal of an iconic Native American statue—as the focal point of Lane...

The Windy City’s real estate market in the summer of 2020 was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, protests, marches for black lives, riots and...

Now that the Windy City’s budget deficit has hit $1.2 billion, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is spinning the roulette wheel and pushing for the...

Any elderly American who is alive today and lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s would blink their wrinkled, cataract-filled...