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Record Information Services has been beating the competition for years on data currency and data quality. Now we will meet or beat the competition on price! Show us any competitor’s quote on a foreclosure subscription, and we will MEET or BEAT that price on the same length subscription. Call us today for details (630) 557-1000. Foreclosure subscriptions only.

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NEW! Now included with your online foreclosure subscription is the ability to print out a ready-made report for you to take to foreclosure auctions with you. This report will list all upcoming auctions that you select, and lists important property information for you to review properties quickly and easily along with auctions. For our current subscribers: this report is called SALES SUMMARY PDF and is accessible simply by clicking that button after you select Sales Dates between any future date through +/- 15 days out as the range. ** Note our Foreclosure Report of Chicago (FROC) customers assisted in creating this exciting new feature!

Proud to launch our own Real Estate Property Transfer portal realestate.public-record.com that specifically focuses on Real Estate transaction across 15 counties with currency of 1 week old all the way back to 1997 worth of transactions. Our site also includes up to date Illinois MLS listings by city to generate leads.

Record Information Services Inc. is excited to announce the acquisition of The Foreclosure Report of Chicago, of Barrington, Illinois. Foreclosure Report of Chicago has long been known for its popular weekly booklet of newly filed foreclosures, foreclosure sale results, and tax sales. Read more

We at Record Information Services want you to be aware of new legislation put into effect last week that affects the number of new foreclosures being filed in all Illinois counties.

Senate Bill 2513, also known as The Homeowner Protection Act, provides up to a 90-day grace period from foreclosure for delinquent homeowners who agree to seek housing counseling. Therefore, there will be less NEW foreclosures filed in all Illinois counties for an indefinite period of time.

Announcing the launch of new real estate website for viewing and sorting recent home sales in Chicagoland and beyond, Real Estate Illinois. Are you FSBO? A mortgage broker? A real estate professional? Use Real Estate Illinois to find comp homes for buying or selling a house. Select from 15 counties of data, with transactions going back from 1997 to one week in the past.

Proud to launch a Check Illinois coBrand with Crain's to create a self service method of doing background checks.

Most of the Illinois Foreclosure auctions that occur these days are going back to the lender, one of the biggest challenges is finding out where that lender is located especially with all the turmoil in the lending business. We are now tying our real estate data to the foreclosure data which will statically update the lender and the tax bill location. Once the property is sold from the lender to an individual, it will be updated again as a final process.

Record Information Services is the only Illinois data provider covering the foreclosure process from the beginning to end for our clients.

We have launched a new product called WatchIllinois which compliments Check Illinois.

Watch Illinois is a unique online tool which automatically alerts you when a change occurs in the public record of a person, property, or business of your choosing. Simply sign up for the criteria you want to "watch" , and we'll e-mail you weekly, letting you know if new public records are filed in the Illinois court system, based on your criteria.

NEW: Now you can do fast individual background checks on Properties and Businesses in Northern Illinois. See public records instantly on your screen, in 60 seconds or less.

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Record Information Services now has lists of Forcible Detainers available for download. Forcible Detainers specifically deal with tenants in apartments, lack of payment of rent, and refusing to vacate the premises. These lists are excellent for property owners for helping with tenant screening. Detainers are available for Cook and seven collar counties: DeKalb, Dupage, Kane County, Kendall County, Lake, McHenry, and Will. Records date back to mid-2000. Read More -- Request a Demo of Detainers

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Record Information Services has added an overlay of census data to our mortgages, deeds, foreclosures, bankruptcies and business licenses. The census is conducted by the US Census Bureau every 10 years. It identifies certain geographic areas by census tract and census block. The census track reflects median numbers when it comes to age and income. It is a generalization about a specific area, not by any means an exact science or number. When selecting an income range, those numbers will reflect a median household income, not an average of the census tract area. The median age is identified by using the census block as a benchmark which does reflect a more accurate picture of a geographic area.

NEW: Advertise your business or service on www.public-record.com. Advertise to a highly targeted audience including investors, bankers, realtors, insurance providers, and more. Monthly and contract rates are available. Please call or email Tiffany Binaté at (630) 557-1000, x234, for more information. You can view our Online Advertising Media Kit.

Proud to launch a Check Illinois coBrand with Chicagos premier Tenant Screening Services Metropolitan Tenant Information Services to create a self service method of doing background checks.

Proud to launch a joint venture with Sun Times, a Foreclosure Transaction portal chicago.suntimes.il-foreclosure.com/ that specifically focuses on Foreclosure transaction across 9 counties.

Proud to launch a joint venture with Chicago Tribune, a Real Estate Transaction portal chicagotribune.public-record.com/realestate that specifically focuses on Real Estate transaction across 15 counties with currency of 1 week old all the way back to 1997 worth of transactions.

Posted On: 03-18-07
One of Chicagoland’s premiere data gathering firms is finally making its vast Illinois public record databases available to the public. Check Illinois a subsidiary of Record Information Services, Inc., will allow private individuals to search for public records on their coworkers, friends, neighbors, or anyone else that you would want to background check.

Posted On: 02-27-07
We are proud to launch an additional 86 counties of Illinois Bankruptcy records. We now cover all Bankruptcy records filed in Illinois.

Posted On: 02-27-07
Record Information Services has launched a partnership with Adjuggler to deliver ads on all of our web sites. With over 1.5 million page views a month, this is a great opportunity for advertisers who wish to target businesses that leverage our data for marketing. Please call Tiffany Binaté at 630-557-1000, x 234 for special three-month introductory rates during our launch.

Posted On: 02-06-07
Proud to launch a joint venture with NBC5 TV, a city and county Foreclosure web site chicago.nbc5.il-foreclosure.com that specifically focuses on foreclosures that are going to auction on the specific day you view the site. Along with launching a Real Estate web site nbc5.public-record.com/realestate that specifically focuses on all Illinois Real Estate transactions search enabled for the consumer.

Posted On: 11-04-06
We are excited to announce expansion into Winnebago County for Divorces, Foreclosures and Probate data effective 11/6/06.

Posted On: 09-30-06
Proud to launch a joint venture with Northwest News Group a city and county Foreclosure web site chicago.nwnews.il-foreclosure.com that specifically focuses on foreclosures that are going to auction on the specific day you view the site. Along with launching a Real Estate web site nwnews.public-record.com/realestate that specifically focuses on all Illinois Real Estate transactions search enabled for the consumer.

Posted On: 09-02-06
Proud to launch with a joint venture with Chicago Tribune a city and county foreclosure web site chicago.chicagotribune.il-foreclosure.com that specifically focuses on foreclosures that are going to auction on the specific day you view the site.

Posted On: 07-30-06
On the www.public-record.com site, we have added the ability in the Mortgage database to select records with Reverse Mortgages only. Also, in the Bankruptcies database has the ability to target bankrupt businesses only.

Posted On: 07-15-06
On the www.public-record.com site Divorce subscribers can now select Plaintiff or Respondent when printing 5160 mailing labels. Mortgage and Real Estate subscribers can now select by Cook County Community in addition to zip code and city. The Mortgage databases now use a standardize lender list for faster data capture when targeting by specific lender.

We are also proud to launch with a joint venture with Daily Herald a city and county foreclosure web site chicago.dailyherald.il-foreclosure.com that specifically focuses on foreclosures that are going to auction on the specific day you view the site.

Posted On: 02-19-06
On the www.public-record.com site, we have added Ethnic Origin selection on the DUI, Criminal Felony, Criminal Misdemeanors and Suspended and Revoked License databases.

Posted On: 02-19-06
We are proud to launch city and county foreclosure web sites that specifically focus on foreclosures that are going to auction on the specific day you view the site. Counties such as cook.il-foreclosure.com and cities such as chicago.il-foreclosure.com give todays foreclosures for FREE.

Posted On: 02-19-06
We are proud to launch our local city and county specific web sites for the Illinois area. Counties such as cook.il.public-record.com and cities such as chicago.il.public-record.com give some brief history of public record transactions.

Posted On: 01-14-06
On the www.public-record.com site, Kane Real Estate, Mortgages and Foreclosures now have assessor links tied to "most" of the records.

Posted On: 11-19-05
Cook Foreclosures now has the ability to be queried by the 77 Chicago communities.

Library partners now have the ability to purchase "customized database sets" based on their patrons desires. Library partners should contact Jeff Metcalf at 630/557-1000 to discuss this newly created option.

Posted On: 11-16-05
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Posted On: 10-22-05
Record Information Services is proud to announce that we are going with daily uploads of Cook County Foreclosures and auctions the week of 10/31/2005. Customers will be able to go into the database for example on Tuesday morning and download all the cases that were filed Monday. Also we now have real time sale updates. If an auction has been changed either by a day or a week those updates will be available.

Current customers using a Monday to Monday date range to download the most current files, as of October 31st, 2005 you will use the previous days date to download the previous days cases filed. We hope this will further give our customers more advantages when it comes to the currency with the data. The collar counties will remain weekly updates for now.

Posted On: 09-18-05
library.public-record.com has gone through a major redesign adding many new features along with additional counties in bankruptcies (Boone, Dekalb, LaSalle, Lee and Ogle) and additional counties in new home owners (Dekalb, Madison, Peoria, Rock Island, Tazewell and Winnebago).

Posted On: 08-21-05
www.public-record.com now has DUIs, Suspended Revoked Licenses, Criminal Felony & Misdemeanors for Dekalb, Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will Illinois counties are available online now.

Posted On: 08-06-05
political.public-record.com site now has Mortgages and Real Estate for Champaign, St Clair, Tazewell, Madison, Winnebago, Peoria and Rock Island counties available online.

Posted On: 07-23-05
Bankruptcies for Boone, Lasalle, Lee and Ogle counties are available online.

Posted On: 06-27-05
Cook, Dupage, Lake and Will County foreclosure data now has direct links to Assessment information. Coming soon and Kane and Kendall!

Posted On: 06-27-05
Foreclosures now has the ability to show comparison real estate prices for property on that same street along with indicating if the person who is in foreclosure has filed for bankruptcy

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