Cautious optimism for federal foreclosure prevention program

Bean, The Banks, And The Role Of States In Financial Consumer Protection (Progress Illinois)

Durbin, Colleagues Push New Housing Bill (Progress Illinois)

Banks’ changes to overdraft protection not enough to protect consumers

Housing crisis puts Chicago Lawn in downward spiral (Chicago Tribune)

As Subprime Lending Crisis Unfolded, Watchdog Fed Didn’t Bother Barking (Washington Post)

IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan Leads Roundtable Discussion on Consumer Financial Protection Reform

The Hardest-Hit Communities (Chicago Magazine)

Proposed federal agency has consumer groups, chambers at odds (Daily Herald)

Tracking Loan Modifications: August 2009

Fix the system that led to collapse (Daily Herald)

Daily Herald: “Fix The System That Led To Collapse” (Progress Illinois)

Foreclosure pace slows in some suburbs (Grayslake Review)

Illinois Foreclosure Filings Decline in August (WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio)

Foreclosure Situation Improving? (WBEZ-FM/Chicago Public Radio)

25 percent of area families are asset poor, study finds (Franklin Park Herald-Journal)

At the Woodstock Institute, Dory Rand fights to protect poor families (Chi-Town Daily News)

11,000 Illinois homeowners take advantage of mortgage aid program (State Journal-Register)

US suburbs become face of foreclosure (Financial Times)

Study: Consumer laws helped limit Chicago foreclosures (Chi-Town Daily News)