Foreclosure Crisis Hitting Affluent Suburbs

Carol Jones never thought it could happen to her. She had a great job working as a nurse at an Evanston hospital. She had a Glencoe condo in a near-perfect location–close to public transportation, close to her kids. But in May of 2009, she became ill.  Her doctor informed her that she had Guillain-Barré, a […]

Foreclosures Are Far Fewer On The North Shore Than Thought

The high-profile auction of convicted political fixer Anton “Tony” Rezko’s Wilmette mansion last week drew new attention to the issue of foreclosures on the North Shore.   While almost 3,000 properties in North Shore communities are in some stage of foreclosure or bankruptcy, only one tenth of the properties are actually in the foreclosure process- […]