Illinois's housing market experienced significant swings from 2018 through 2023. After steady but modest growth in the late ...

Mortgage rates didn’t move much last week, but demand from homebuyers for loans rose to the highest level in nearly two ...

Rate, a leader in fintech mortgage solutions, announced today the addition of Adrian Hall as Branch Manager to lead its ...

Lori Rinaldi, Residential Mortgage Loan Officer at Associated Bank, joins Steve Grzanich on this week’s Thought Leader ...

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it will leave interest rates unchanged as President Donald Trump's tariff policies ...

Once the federal funds rate comes down, consumers may see their borrowing costs decrease across a variety of consumer debt such as auto loans, credit cards and mortgages, making it cheaper to ...

Last year alone, there were 2,300 nonfatal shootings in Chicago. The police made arrests in just 141 of them — a “clearance” rate of about 6%, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.

Mortgage rates went up for the first time in a month ... Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told an audience at the University of Chicago on March 7 that "we're still very uncertain about what ...

Rates are an important factor in securing a mortgage, but other considerations should be made to ensure that your loan meets your long-term needs. The posted rate is the rate that a lender openly ...

What does Wednesday's news mean for mortgage rates, though? While inflation does have an impact on the overall rate environment, the answer may not be as simple as you think. Inflation is just one ...

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To make this more concrete: higher interest rates mean a higher cost of borrowing for consumers and businesses. For example, the 30-year mortgage rate stood at 6.6% as of March 2025 (and averaged ...