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- Nearly 1 in 5 Illinois homeowners underwater on mortgage
- Almost 410,000 Illinois mortgages, or 18.4 percent of home loans, were underwater in September, meaning homeowners owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth. A report issued Tuesday by data provider First American CoreLogic…
- Chicago Tribune
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- 4 hours ago
- Illinois briefs
- CHICAGO -- Ten people, including at least five current or former Cook County traffic court employees, have been charged with taking part in a sham marriage scheme. The scheme produced 15 bogus marriages designed to evade the immigration…
- Dubuque Telegraph Herald
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- 21 hours ago
- RE/MAX Agents Report Hope for the Holidays When it Comes to…
- The holiday season in the Illinois and Chicago real estate markets can be considered one of the most difficult times to sell a home. But, those with homes for sale should take heart because there is hope during the holidays, according to…
- PRWeb
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- 7 hours ago
PRWeb- Business Briefs
- Playboy to cut 25 jobs, outsource Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises announced Tuesday it will outsource all Playboy magazine functions except the editorial product and cut about 25 jobs, moves it hopes restore the magazine -- expected to…
- Chicago Sun-Times
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- 3 hours ago
- Gitmo detainees face Illinois move
- ... fears as “sheer demagoguery,” pointing to the fact that the state already houses inmates linked to international terrorism in a facility in Marion, Ill., approximately 340 miles south of Evanston. “In Illinois, we know how to run a…
- Daily Northwestern
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- 1 day ago
- More than 18 percent of Illinois mortgages are underwater
- Almost 410,000 Illinois mortgages, or 18.4 percent of home loans, were underwater in September, meaning homeowners owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth. A report issued Tuesday by data provider First American CoreLogic…
- Chicago Tribune
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- 20 hours ago
- Weird but true
- Some people will be forgiven for complaining about getting s- - - for Christmas. An Illinois zoo has added sparkling reindeer-dung necklaces to its gift shop for the holiday season. The $15 pendants contain dried, sterilized deer droppings…
- New York Post
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- 1 hour ago
- Local business owner honored for volunteer spirit
- ... the Western Illinois Youth Camp and serving on the board of The Salvation Army. His painting company, J.B. Large & Sons, has done charity work remodeling rooms in the Governor Duncan Mansion and painting several Habitat for Humanity…
- Jacksonville Journal Courier
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- 1 hour ago
- Me-OW! Cat survives Illinois outage-causing run-in
- CARROLLTON, Ill. (AP) â A cat went from meow to ow when officials say it accidentally made contact with a substation's fuse, causing an outage to about 1,500 homes and businesses in southwestern Illinois. The feline apparently survived the…
- The Guardian
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- 18 hours ago
- Holding Gitmo inmates would be economic boost, Illinois…
- Proposal calls for using maximum-security prison in struggling northern Illinois On Monday, federal officials to visit facility in Thomson, about 150 miles west of Chicago "It's good for our economy, it's good for public safety," Illinois…
- CNN
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- 11/15/2009