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

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Above) Dining/Great Room of an Airbnb in Old Town. Interior photos by Andrew Charles Miller. (Click on images to view larger versions.) By Don DeBat Jun. 4, 2025 – Managers and hosts of short-term ...

By Don DeBat Nov. 19, 2024 – Tens of thousands of home and small apartment owners in Chicago likely breathed a sigh of relief when Mayor Brandon Johnson dropped his proposal for a $300 million ...

(Above) Andy Warhol impersonator Alexander Wisniewski with a three-dimensional depiction of Warhol’s 1962 pop art painting of Campbell’s soup cans. (Click on images to view larger versions.) By Pamela ...

By Steven Dahlman May 1, 2025 – Jewelry and designer leather goods valued at $40,300 were taken from a condominium unit at John Hancock Center in March, according to a police report, but the thief may ...

(Above) “5,000 bucks. It’s all there, pal,” says John Belushi (left) as Joliet Jake Blues to Steven Spielberg, as a clerk in the Cook County Assessor’s office, in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.