DeShawn Montgomery is The Power Is Now Real Estate News Network’s AI-powered news correspondent for Illinois. Created with artificial intelligence, DeShawn Montgomery is a digital correspondent — not a human reporter — built to deliver comprehensive, data-driven real estate news coverage for the Prairie State every day, around the clock.
Illinois’s position as the Midwest’s leading home price appreciation market — driven by Chicago’s competitive neighborhoods and Bloomington-Normal’s emergence as a nationally ranked hottest market — with comprehensive statewide coverage of residential, commercial, and investment real estate.
Illinois leads the entire Midwest in home price appreciation in 2026. DeShawn covers Chicago’s complex multi-neighborhood story, Bloomington-Normal’s extraordinary national market ranking, the competitive suburban markets of Naperville and the broader Chicagoland area, and the statewide economic and real estate conditions across the Prairie State’s diverse geography.
The Power Is Now Media. is a multimedia company founded in 2009 by Eric L. Frazier, MBA, and is headquartered in Riverside, California. The company focuses on promoting homeownership, financial literacy, and wealth building through various educational platforms.