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Real estate exec found dead

Steven Good, a major figure in Chicago real estate, was found shot to death Monday at a Kane County wildlife preserve, police said. Mr. Good, 52, was the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. They said his body was found in a car parked at the Max McGraw Wildlife Refuge near East Dundee.

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Chicago real estate exec found dead

A Chicago commercial real estate broker committed suicide in a Kane County wildlife preserve, police said Monday.

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Photo by scrapplequeenThe Sun-Times is reporting this evening that Chicago Real Estate mogul Steven Good has been found dead in a Kane County forest preserve. Not many details are known other than that the body was found shortly after 8 a.m. this morning inside a red Jaguar sports car.An interesting read from Politico regarding Roland Burris's prosecution of Rolando Cruz.Experts are predicting a bad year for condo sales in the South Loop.Three babies, ages 4 months, 14 months, and 16 months, were

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Owning a Home Makes You Fat?!

Mary Umberger’s column, “Love owning your home? Maybe not so much” in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune House & Homes Section revealed the most frightening thing I’ve heard about real estate. According to an assistant professor of real estate at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, women homeowners are an average of 12 [...]

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Schock: 'This is a whole new ballgame.'

Elaine S. Povich, Peoria Journal StarWASHINGTON, D.C. — Standing on the rooftop outside his office window with the U.S. Capitol in the background, U.S. Rep.-elect Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, could be forgiven for feeling a little giddy about becoming the youngest member of Congress at age 27. But then reality hits.The economy. The war. The mess in the Illinois Statehouse.It's enough to make a young man very sober, very fast.But dampening Schock's enthusiasm for his new job is hard."Absolutely not,"

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Roadblocks to real estate deals on the rise

In a word, it's been dead.

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Commercial real estate in for tough 2009

The balance of power between landlords and tenants will shift dramatically in 2009. For landlords, this promises to be a year of intense competition, more bankrupt tenants, and tightfisted lenders. For renters, it looks like a time of abundant choices and tiny -- if any -- price increases.

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Cookie site plan crumbles as Costco denies deal

A Costco spokesman said Friday that the retailer has no interest in the Maurice Lenell Cooky Co. site and surrounding property, which developers had hoped would be anchored by Costco. "Costco has no immediate interest in that property because it doesn't fit within our expansion strategy, and it's too expensive," Michael S. Stratis, Costco's real estate consultant and vice president and counsel for Intrepid Properties Inc., told the Sun-Times.

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