Park District Releases Updated Plans For Renovation of Jackson Park and South Shore Golf Courses

In case you hadn’t heard, Tiger Woods is coming to the south side.  Sort of.  In 2016, his golf course design company, TGR Design, signed on to oversee the “restoration” of the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses into a PGA

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Spreading Some Non-Profit Love

LoftusLaw is decidedly for profit.  However, it is important to give back.  Not only does it feel good to give, it is just the right thing to do.  Hopefully I can inspire some giving here, by telling you a little bit about my favorite charities.

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It Always Feels Like Somebody’s Watching Me!

At first glance, this picture does not look particularly controversial or even interesting. But if you look closely, there is something extremely important going on here. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has placed a piece of tape over the webcam

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What Is Airfare Hacking?

Some of you know that I just got back from a short trip to see the sites in Warsaw, Poland.  Whether it is a good idea to lose and gain 7 hours in the span of 5 days is debatable, the trip was a great success.  The best part is that the whole trip

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Financial Planning In The Era of Marriage Equality

Everyone should have some kind of financial plan.  For many people, this does not become clear until they get married and start a family.  Once there is more than one person to think about supporting, it becomes fairly obvious that a plan must be

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6 Myths About Homebuying — Translated

I came across an interesting article on Yahoo about “Homebuying Myths” (click here to see the article).  The article has some interesting information, but there are some things that I think could be added to make the article more

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Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Accusing Zillow of Conducting Appraisal Without License

This is a follow up to my post last week about some of the controversies surrounding the real estate website Zillow. Welcome back to the post!  At the time of publication a lawsuit was pending against Zillow accusing the website of violating

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Is Zillow Helpful or Harmful?

Zillow is a real estate listing website with a twist — each listing has an estimate of the value of the real estate, which Zillow calls a “Zestimate.”  That twist has been controversial among homeowners, especially when the

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