Since 2019, Illinois home prices have jumped nearly 50% and available houses are down nearly 50%. Blame property taxes and zoning.

Illinois has a shortage of about 142,000 housing units and must build 227,000 in the next five years to keep pace with demand, a number that would require recent annual production rates to double, ...

Several tents sit just off of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, in a park known for its homeless encampments. The number of homeless people in Illinois is rising, but the state’s ...

A new bill moving through the Illinois legislature could significantly impact housing development in the Quad Cities and ...

Oakland, has introduced legislation to restrict large institutional investment firms from buying single-family homes.

John Petruszak opened his email Feb. 27 to find a message he called “shocking”: the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development had rescinded two grants it had awarded to his advocacy ...

ILLINOIS, USA — Illinois Go. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order to help with affordable housing statewide on Thursday. The order directs state agencies to examine ways to expand attainable ...

Rockford, Illinois, is the nation's hottest housing market, according to Realtor.com, which placed Rockford at the top of its Hottest Housing Markets list in December. The website announced the news ...

Redfin Real Estate compiled a list of the most competitive housing markets in Illinois.

There has been an exciting debate recently about how to increase Chicago’s housing supply and thus spark economic growth through changes to the city’s administrative and regulatory processes. But a ...

The number of homeless people in Illinois is rising, but the state’s spending on homeless prevention and other housing programs is headed in the other direction. Facing a tight budget year with ...