Sara Hovey and her husband were paying for a mortgage, rent and a litigation attorney, who apparently told her she should have been protected.

The average house price here was more than $550,000 in 2024. Occupying the Near North Side and West Town neighborhoods of Chicago, the 60642 area saw home values soar to more than half-a-million ...

More than a dozen properties in the ritzy North Shore neighborhood have been assessed at between $16 million and $34 million.