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Welcome to the Machine: the Illinois Anti-Predatory Lending Database Now Playing in Peoria. Kane & Will Counties, Too

Two years ago today, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation  initiated the Illinois Anti-Predatory Lending Database ( IAPLD ) project. Since then, details of most every Cook County mortgage transaction have been manually entered into the State's super computers, not once, but twice, sometimes even three times.... all at additional expense to the borrowers the process aims to protect. Closing are taking longer too. Predatory lending, while "discouraged," remains legal. Today, the program expands to three neighboring counties, Kane, Will and Peoria. As with Cook, all three have been hit hard by foreclosures, many the result of those too-good-to-be-true loans we saw so much of  back in those go-go days before the bubble burst.   The APLD law requires loan originators to enter details of proposed loans into a state database. The state computer screens the loan and - where appropriate - mandates that would-be borrowers attend  loan counseling from