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

Local Headlines

• 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

• Buy a home in Palatine Illinois

  Wednesday | via WebWire 

  Palatine Illinois http://www.realestateinpalatineil.com is a small village located in Cook County and is mainly a residential suburb of Chicago.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Cook County, IL, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Chicago State University, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago

• Housing Helpers to teach foreclosure prevention

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Marywood Herald 

  A foreclosure prevention seminar for Maywood residents has been scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon July 19 in the community room of the Maywood Recreation Building, 200 S. Fifth Ave.

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

• Headaches could await Countrywide loan holders

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Sun-Times News Group 

  The troubles of failed Countrywide Financial Corp. may signal trouble ahead for Evanston customers who obtained loans with illusory teaser rates, optional payment terms and little income verification.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Evanston, IL, Home, Mortgage, Cook County, IL, Chicago Metro

• Community Briefs

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Marywood Herald 

  Westlake Hospital is hosting a two-part program to help participants learn if their varicose veins put them at risk for more serious problems.

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  Related Topix: Melrose Park, IL, Chicago, IL, Cook County, IL, Maywood, IL, Foreclosures, Bellwood, IL

Regional Headlines

• Hording chocolate and airing the pork

  13 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

• Finally, some good news - fewer fatalities

  19 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

• Obama downplays satirical magazine cover

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via CNN 

  Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday called a New Yorker cover that unflatteringly depicts him and his wife an unsuccessful attempt at satire that will probably fuel misconceptions he has long battled over the course ...

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  Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Larry King, Illinois, Illinois Government, US Senate, Democrat, Barack Obama, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  8 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  18 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  22 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home