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

By Don DeBat May 22, 2017 – Softball team managers might tell you losing a good sponsor is worse than losing a wife. And while that’s probably not true, thousands of teams go courting sponsors every ...

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 ...

The writer’s newspaper The Chicago Daily News was founded in 1875 and folded in 1978. For 103 years it was known as “the writer’s newspaper” – a “daily novel of life” in the Windy City. It also was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Riverwalk, new security people, right? Not so. The company that keeps the Riverwalk safe has worked for the city since 2006 and has earned a fortune off us. By Steven Dahlman Jun. 7, 2015 – It may ...

(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 ...