CRA successes demonstrate need for future commitments

Illinois Treasurer adopts community reinvestment policy for state depositories

Senator Durbin announces Financial Products Safety Commission

Payday Loan Reformers Work To Close Illinois Loophole (Progress Illinois)

Numbers don’t support claims of CRA critics

Credit card bill clears another hurdle

Community Group Aims to Educate Rogers Park on Foreclosures (Chicago Talks)

Renters Locked Out of Foreclosure Relief (Understading Government)

Colbert Spoofs Gutierrez and the Payday Loan Reform Act of 2009

City’s largest community fights image of neighborhood in despair (Red Eye)

Accepting the Challenge: Chicago’s Five Year Affordable Housing Plan 2009-2013 (City of Chicago)

Frank’s federal anti-predatory lending bill not strong enough

Counselors swamped with rising foreclosures (River Forest Leaves)

Woodstock Institute Looks “Beyond Payday Loans” (Progress Illinois)

Durbin, Hamos Fight Payday Lenders (Progress Illinois)

Gutierrez Proposes Weak Reform of Payday Lenders (Washington Independent)

Woodstock Institute joins Senator Dick Durbin in call for federal interest rate cap of 36 percent

Foreclosure help coming (Daily Herald)

Durbin urges payday-loan rate cap to help low-income citizens (Medill News Service)

Pay Day Loan Reform — and Alternatives (Community Media Workshop)