Invest in the multi-trillion home equity market If you’re not ready to sell, or you don’t own a home, you can still cash in on rising home prices by investing in the real estate market.

ATLANTIC CITY — Golden Nugget Atlantic City’s self-made billionaire owner has built both his hospitality empire and his reputation by being brutally honest.

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the first American pontiff in the church's 2,000-year history.

For about four years, Deffenbaugh and Prevost lived together in an Augustinian community in Chicago while Prevost was enrolled at Catholic Theological Union.

Those house hunting in Silicon Valley over the past two years have faced the region’s most unaffordable market in nearly 50 years, according to Santa Clara County property tax assessor Larry Stone.