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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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Local Headlines

• Don't let college cost numbers crunch you

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Thecalifornian.com 

  Crunching the numbers on college costs has been a particularly grim task for parents of incoming freshmen this year.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Bloomington, IL, Bloomington Metro

• Students can find aid, even at last minute

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Seattle Times 

  How to pursue financial help on the eve of college: Contact the college's financial-aid office to seek general assistance, ask about a monthly payment plan or learn of any money that may have become available ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Bloomington, IL, Bloomington Metro, Federal Prisons, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago

• Group tries to prevent loan foreclosures

  Friday Jun 20 | via WHOI 

  The Central Illinois Organizing Project is trying to keep a mortgage company from foreclosing on a Bloomington couple's home loan.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Bloomington, IL

• Illinois Style: House restoration hindered by vandals

  Jun 16, 2008 | via Chicago Tribune 

  Diane Sullivan is looking forward to drinking her morning cup of coffee on the second-floor balcony of the home she and her husband recently purchased in rural Towanda.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Remodeling, Towanda, IL, Bloomington, IL, Real Estate, Normal, IL

• Area income among state's highest, but growth is not good

  Apr 24, 2008 | via State Journal-Register 

  Personal income in Springfield remains among the highest in the state, but the rate of growth remains among the slowest.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Springfield, IL, Springfield Metro

Regional Headlines

• Hording chocolate and airing the pork

  12 hrs ago | via ScrippsNews 

  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the government-chartered mortgage giants tumbling toward a taxpayer bailout -- have not been penurious about making campaign contributions and engaging top lobbyists to grease ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Illinois, Illinois Government

• Governor Blagojevich urges Congressional Delegation to support additional LIHEAP funding

  Thursday | via Illinois Government News Network 

  ' Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today sent a letter to members of Illinois' Congressional Delegation urging them to support legislation that would increase funding to the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance ...

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  Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Illinois, Illinois Government, Cook County, IL

• Finally, some good news - fewer fatalities

  18 hrs ago | via The Daily Gazette 

  The daily news hasn't been all that rosy lately. Rising gasoline prices, higher unemployment, floods, wildfires and home loan foreclosures have led the parade of doom and gloom across the land.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Illinois, Illinois Government, Opinion

• Obama's trip: 1st high-profile step on world stage

  Thursday | via Earthlink 

  More Obama's trip: 1st high-profile step on world stage July 17, 2008 6:04 PM EDT WASHINGTON - Sen.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, John McCain, Travel, Middle East, Israel Travel, Israel Travel

• Analysis: GOP, Dems using wars to define Obama

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Earthlink 

  Republican John McCain hopes to sell the idea that his rival is not. The return of Iraq and Afghanistan to the forefront of the presidential campaign illustrates how both sides increasingly seem to view the ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, US Military, US Navy, George Bush, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  4 min ago | via The Leaf Chronicle 

  I'm responding to the article dated June 29, 2008, "Local industry a big deal to Little." First of all, I would like to say in the rise of the real estate market there was one good thing I found when moving to ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clarksville, TN, Opinion

• Letter: Council decisions

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Welcoming foreclosure

  1 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  6 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  25 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Construction