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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• For families, 'worst factors coming together at once'

  Monday Jun 23 | via PeoriaTimes-Observer 

  When a local business adds staff, services and hours to keep up with demand, it's celebrated as a success.

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

• Zoning May Change for Failed Winnebago County Ethanol Plant Site

  May 21, 2008 | via WIFR 

  The plot of land just west of Rockford that would have been home to an ethanol plant may be changed back to agricultural zoning.

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  Related Topix: Rockford Metro, Rockford, IL, Foreclosures, Winnebago County, IL

• Home Foreclosure Help

  Apr 3, 2008 | via WIFR 

  Watching three of her kids ages 4 and under, Rebecca Gibson has her hands full. But an even bigger load was piled on over the past year when she and husband Robert almost lost their Belvidere home in what ...

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  Related Topix: Belvidere, IL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Winnebago County, IL, Rockford, IL

• Alpine Bank opens Roscoe branch

  Feb 5, 2008 | via Beloit Daily News 

  As Alpine Bank celebrates its 100 year anniversary this year, it's also opening its ninth branch in Roscoe at 5023 Rockrose Court.

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  Related Topix: Winnebago County, IL, Rockton, IL, Roscoe, IL, Machesney Park, IL, Home, Mortgage

• Ice jams cause flooding, threaten homes on 2 rivers

  Jan 24, 2008 | via Quad-City Times 

  Flooding caused by ice jams on two rivers is threatening homes in northern Illinois.

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  Related Topix: Winnebago County, IL, Machesney Park, IL, Weather, Mortgage, Home

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

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  5 min ago | via The Herald 

  Economy needs stability before regulation By David Ignatius WASHINGTON -- Henry Paulson was in shirt sleeves Thursday afternoon in his office at the Treasury Department, tie loose at the collar, feet propped up ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Freddie Mac files with Us Sec, first step to capital

  8 min ago | via ABS-CBN News 

  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Freddie Mac won approval from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage finance company may seek $10 billion.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae

• Earnings Outlook: Bank of America heads parade firms aiming to show turnaround

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Is it turnaround time for banks? Bank of America Corp. BAC , , ) tops the list of major U.S. financial firms reporting earnings next week, and investors will be looking to see if the nation's second-largest ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Welcoming foreclosure

  9 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