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Kendall County Announces New Fee Schedule Effective January 1

01/07/2020 - 5:36pm
The County Clerk and Recorder of Kendall County has announced new rates effective January 1, 2020 (see Recorder's Notice for all fee changes). For more information, visit the Recorder's Office...

McHenry County Announces New Fee Schedule Effective December 1

11/19/2019 - 2:19pm
The McHenry County Recorder's Office is increasing its Geographic Information System (GIS) fee from $15 to $24 (see Recorder's Notice for all fee changes). For more information, visit the Recorder's...

Madison County Changing to Predictable Fee Schedule

09/17/2019 - 10:07am
Effective September 23, 2019, Madison County, Illinois, is changing to a predictable fee schedule for recordings. For details and the new rates, please read the attached fee schedule from the Madison...

Attorney Held Personally Liable to Defrauded Lender

09/09/2019 - 12:01pm
In a recent opinion, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the United States found an attorney who served as the sellers' attorney and who was the owner of the title company that closed...

Cook County Changing to Predictable Fee Schedule

04/17/2019 - 2:21pm
Cook County has announced, effective May 20, 2019, it is changing to a predictable fee schedule for recordings. For details and the new rates, please read the attached fee schedule from the Recorder...

Fight Back against Cyber Crime

01/22/2019 - 11:00am
The threat of wire fraud is growing exponentially. Consider these staggering statistics involving Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) and E-mail Account Compromise (EAC) scams: $3 billion stolen from 41...

MyDec Required for All Cook County Conveyances Starting January 21, 2019

01/10/2019 - 2:52pm
The Cook County Recorder of Deeds has announced, effective January 21, 2019, the requirement to include electronically-completed MyDec declarations when recording property conveyances will expand to...

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