We Are Here to Help You Weather the Storm! With 5 months of the Pandemic behind us in the US, millions of jobs lost, mortgage and rent payments missed, many are wondering, where’s the Tsunami of Bankruptcy filings? In fact, compared to 2019, Bankruptcy filings
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EMERGENCY RESOURCES FOR CORONAVIRUS-RELATED FINANCIAL RELIEF
How To Recover From Bankruptcy Filing- Rebuild Your Credit!
Almost everyone I talk to, when considering filing for Bankruptcy Protection, asks “How will this affect my Credit?” What they really want to know is, will they be able to get credit in the future? The answer is that Bankruptcy temporarily causes your credit score
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Behind on Student Loans? Take Action Now!
You did it! You went to school and graduated! Or, you didn’t finish your degree. Regardless, you’ll have to deal with your student loans. In the ideal world, you got a job, and made all of the payments for your loans, and everything is good.
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What does $100,000.00 per Year Buy a Family in Illinois?
This is an extremely controversial subject! Almost as controversial as politics!! I read this article at npr.com, “What living on $100,000.00 per year looks like”. NPR interviews several families from around the country, and each family’s experience was very different. Each family had their own
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The Free Money Checkup– Only a Phone Call Away
Every year, we need to go to our friendly family doctor for a checkup. You have a conversation with a nurse and your doctor. The doctor listens to your heart and lungs, taps your knee, and checks to see if everything is working right. Then
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The Taxi Cab Medallion Foreclosure Crisis in Chicago- What Can Drivers Do?
The ride share boom from Uber, Lyft and other app services is the latest industry disrupter to strike in the U.S. The taxi industry in Chicago has been hit especially hard. In order to drive a licensed taxi in the City of Chicago, the taxi
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You can Get a Mortgage to Pay off Student Loans! Great?! Not So Fast!
So you got out of college with a boatload of debt, like most students. And, you have a mixture of Federal and Private Student Loans. Studies have shown that recent college grads are putting off buying homes because of the huge student debt obligations. So,
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Entrepreneur Bankruptcy — Not a Failure
I’ve written blog articles about warning signs for business owners, and what to look for, when things get tough. Most business owners don’t look for signs that things are getting tough. They dig in, and keep going. Why? In reality, business owners are, at heart,
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Help for Students and Families is Here: StudentLoanLawChicago.com
Announcing our new website, a resource for students. This is a resource for students at all phases of the college process. We explain the steps to student loan success, from the college application process, to the loan process, to the repayment process. With the cost
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