Foreclosures Rising...

A total of 446,726 homes nationwide were targeted by some sort of foreclosure activity from July to September, up 100 percent from 223,233 properties in the year-ago period, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac Inc. The most recent figure is also 34 percent higher than the 333,731 properties in foreclosure in the second quarter of this year.

As for the Land of Lincoln...Illinois had 20,008 filings, or one for every 257 households. That's up 80 percent from the third quarter of 2006.