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Wednesday Oct 1 | via The SouthtownStar
Lifelink, a century-old human services provider based in Bensenville, and officials from Cook County at 10 a.m. today will mark the completion of $1 million in energy-efficiency upgrades and renovations at ...
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Monster mortgages crush households
Tuesday Sep 23 | via Planning
When Claudia Woods-Branch refinanced the mortgage on her Roseland home about five years ago, she worked as a corporate operations manager and could easily afford her $800-a-month payments.
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Tuesday Sep 23 | via Chicago Sun-Times
Barack Obama, who portrays himself on the campaign trail as a crusading reformer -- underscoring the theme in a speech Monday in Green Bay -- rarely used his considerable bully pulpit to clean up Springfield, ...
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Mortgage workshops set for at-risk homeowners
Saturday Sep 13 | via Chicago Sun-Times
Workshops designed to help homeowners at risk of losing their homes or already in foreclosure restructure their mortgages into affordable home loans will kick off in Cook County this weekend.
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Hints of more activity in U.S. housing sales
Aug 26, 2008 | via Chicago Tribune
Home buyers took advantage of sharply falling prices to snap up bargains last month in some parts of the country, though not necessarily in the Chicago region.
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Regional Headlines
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31 min ago | via The Boston Globe
THE TOWN HALL format of last night's debate in Nashville did not keep Senators John McCain and Barack Obama from repeating points they had made in their first go-round in Mississippi, but it did bring out ...
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Candidates' tax plans will be affected by economy
35 min ago | via The Standard-Times
Hovering over proposals to lower taxes from the two presidential campaigns this year is the faltering economy.
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Stephen Henderson: Fixing America won't be cheap, an...
2 hrs ago | via Freep.com - RSS - Opinion
If the United States finds its way out of the current financial morass - away from record mortgage defaults, bank failures, widespread instability - both presidential candidates seemed to acknowledge during the ...
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First Take: McCain's bold new mortgage plan isn't new
3 hrs ago | via MarketWatch
John McCain proposed a bold new idea to save America from the worst financial crisis in 70 years: Have the federal government buy bad mortgages and modify them to keep people in their homes.
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Round Two: Shadow Boxing with an Empty Feeling
3 hrs ago | via Air America Radio
By Beau Friedlander Flickr: Creative Commons by spcoon and by springhill2008 Now that Sarah Palin has been certified clueless and ideologically dangerous, the McCain camp has someone to race bait and fear ...
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National Headlines
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Britain bolsters banks; IMF calls for action
1 min ago | via The Globe and Mail
Stocks in Canada, the United States and much of the rest of the world spiralled downward again yesterday, highlighted by a 508-point, or 5.1 per cent, drop in the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, to ...
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Lucky or prescient? Chretien takes credit for strong...
1 min ago | via The Globe and Mail
Ten years ago this fall, after his government rejected a pair of proposed bank mergers, the financial community was awash in dire prophesy: Canadian banks were too small to compete with their bulked-up ...
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Analysis: Obama gains, McCain seeks game-changer
2 min ago | via Ann Arbor News
Barack Obama made strides toward easing voters' concerns about his candidacy in Tuesday night's debate.
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McCain, Obama clash over economic crisis
3 min ago | via Columbus Telegram
Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for sweeping action by the ...
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Lawsuits allege Nevadans hurt by predatory lending p...
4 min ago | via KRNV-TV Reno
A Reno lawyer is seeking class-action status for several U.S. District Court lawsuits alleging predatory practices by major lenders that have left his clients facing foreclosures and threatened sales of their ...
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