Illinois posted the third highest state total after California and Florida, with 19,946 properties receiving a foreclosure filing in October 2009—a 56% spike from the previous month and the highest monthly total for Illinois since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005. The state’s foreclosure rate jumped from No. 11 in September to No. 6 in October, and it was the only state with a foreclosure rate in the top 10 to post a monthly increase in foreclosure activity. A recent state law (SB 2513) that gives distressed homeowners an extra grace period to seek counseling to help avoid foreclosure may have created some pent-up foreclosure activity in the state. After the law went into effect in April, Illinois foreclosure activity decreased for three straight months before beginning to climb again.
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