Despite the overall decrease, nearly a quarter of the 77 Chicago Community Areas recorded increases in the number of foreclosure filings between 2014 and 2015. Most notably, the Austin neighborhood had 408 foreclosure filings in 2015, a 10 percent...

Small Business Lending Woodstock is building on our 2014 report entitled DisCredited, which documented lack of access to traditional loans to small businesses in LMI areas and communities of color in the Chicago region, by partnering with allies including...

Last year, Woodstock worked closely with the Responsible Business Lending Coalition to develop a Small Business Borrower Bill of Rights (BBOR).  The BBOR was intended to establish best practices for the industry, including, for example, the responsibility to disclose...

It is estimated that 2.5 million Illinois workers do not have access to a retirement savings program. Retirement savings are increasingly important to a retirees’ economic security considering that other sources of income – earnings, assets, and Social Security...

A year ago, Illinois became the first state in the nation to pass a law to address that looming retirement crisis.  Spurred, in part, by Woodstock Institute research that showed that 2.5 million private-sector workers in Illinois lacked access...

When submitting a complaint, consumers have the option to share their experiences (good or bad) with consumer financial products or services such as mortgages, bank accounts, overdraft, credit cards and deferred interest and reward programs, prepaid and campus cards,...