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Klarchek files for Chapter 11 protection

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Rockford mobile home park lands in foreclosure

The largest manufactured home park in the region is in foreclosure. More

Flider organizes Garfield Estates meeting to address ongoing concerns about owner closing property

DECATUR - The owners of about a dozen mobile homes met with their landlords Friday to get answers as they prepare to move off land that's being sold. More

Chicago firm owns valley mobile home parks

Sam Zell has become the nation's landlord. The 65-year-old Chicago native has built a personal fortune in excess of $4 billion as the founder and chairman of Equity International — a global conglomerate that includes four publicly traded real estate companies: including Equity Lifestyle Properties. More

6th Annual Manufactured Home Owner's Day - March 28

On Tuesday, March 28th, homeowners through out the state of Illinois will once again join together at our state capitol in Springfield. It will be on this day homeowners can meet with their legislators and help influence the decision making process that affects our back doors and communities. More

Elgin's Munson wants to override Blagojevich veto

The sponsor of a bill that would give residents of a local mobile-home park for seniors a way to challenge rent increases said she would seek to override Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recent veto of the measure. More

Manufactured Housing Furnace Inspection Program Safety Notice

Based on several reported premature heat exchanger failures on the above listed furnaces in Alberta, Canada, the Alberta Canada Municipal Affairs, Safety Services Agency issued a January 30, 2002 Consumer Advisory More

Complaints lead to new organization

Fed up with alleged slow or no response from Parrish Properties regarding the new rules contained in its property leases, residents living in Sullivan’s North and South mobile home parks formed a homeowners’ association More

Residents of Garfield Estates voice concerns

While residents of a mobilehome park are upset because they have been ordered to move out, an executive of the company that owns the property said he will do everything he can to help them make the transition More

Entire neighborhood evicted... Longtime residents given 2 days to accept mobile home park's relocati

Fetrow was watching television this month when she heard a knock at the door. She answered it to find the property's maintenance worker holding a letter that informed her the property owners were selling Garfield Estates. More

The debate over affordable housing in America's suburbs

The debate over low-cost housing has moved well beyond the inner city. More

The debate over affordable housing in America's suburbs

The debate over low-cost housing has moved well beyond the inner city. More

Sam Zell has become the nation's landlord

Owners group claims [his] company is the leader in raising rental rates. More

An early Christmas gift from Stroger

Gerald Nichols has lots to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. He's still making $114,000 thanks to us, the ever-generous taxpayers of Cook County. More

House overrides veto of Munson mobilehome bill

Members of the state House on Tuesday overrode the governor's veto of a bill that would give residents of certain mobile-home parks a way to challenge rent increases. More

Fight to help seniors runs into lobbyists' buzz saw

State Rep. Ruth Munson (R-Elgin) has stirred up quite a little hornet's nest. As I write this, Munson is down in Springfield fighting to override Gov. Blagojevich's veto More

Complaints lead to new organization

Fed up with alleged slow or no response from Parrish Properties regarding the new rules contained in its property leases, residents living in Sullivan’s North and South mobile home parks formed a homeowners’ association Monday in hopes of developing a line of communication with the new landlord. More

Property law raises bar for development

Local governments trying to condemn property to make way for private development will have heightened standards to meet under a new eminent domain law signed Friday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich. More

Governor vetoes help seniors in home parks

Under current Illinois law, trailer park owners can raise the rent as much as they want, without explanation. The legislation Blagojevich vetoed would have allowed tenants to hire a real estate appraiser to determine a fair market rent increase if they though landlords were price gouging. More

Veto fight coming... Lawmaker to try again to get protections for mobile home residents passed

SPRINGFIELD — An Elgin lawmaker says Gov. Rod Blagojevich was misguided in rejecting a proposed law offering increased consumer protections to area mobile home residents, and she’ll try to override his veto later this year. More

Location, location: Developers snatch up trailer parks

From Las Vegas to the Tampa Bay area, the scarcity and rising price of land have made mobile home parks a hot commodity. More

Location, location: Developers snatch up trailer parks

Mobile home parks around the USA are being scooped up by developers, depleting affordable housing in many booming real estate markets and spurring states and counties to help residents being evicted. More

Clout seems to suit Victor Reyes just fine

Reyes, as you no doubt know, is a man who understands a lot about power. And one who prefers to wield it quietly, away from prying reporters, and certainly out of the view of cameras. More

Rand Mobile Home Park Safe From City Acquisition

More than 100 residents of the Rand Road Mobile Home Park, sporting buttons saying "Save my home...Save our community", attended Monday night's Des Plaines City Council meeting hoping to hear good news. More

Mobile home park is spared by city

DES PLAINES -- Des Plaines aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to protect about 220 residents of the Rand Road Mobile Home Community from the threat of development under the proposed "Five Corners" tax increment financing district. More

Mobile home dwellers brave winds

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. - Ida Larson's home is a "single-wide," 14 by 70 feet, bigger than most in the Northwood Mobile Home Park, tidier than many and, even though it was built in 1989, more stable against the winds. More

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Mobile home owners seek greater voice in Springfield

SATURDAY MEETING: About 150 hear about ways to combat problems with management. More

Ain't what they used to be

Comedians still jokingly refer to them as places where trailer trash live. This view of manufactured/mobile home parks is not entirely unwarranted. The negative view, especially of park residents, is changing, albeit slowly. More

Not the mobile homes of yore

PEORIA - Cedar siding, stone fireplaces and skylights. Or how about French doors leading into a master bedroom with a huge walk-in closet and a master bathroom with both a two-seat shower and a separate whirlpool tub. More

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