Having been a foreclosure defense and short sale attorney between 2008 and around 2014, I have been monitoring the economy as it pertains to the real estate market carefully.I thought I was seeing signs of a recession about 12 to 18 months ago, and such a recession would have been hitting right about now (i.e., spring 2020). Little did I know that the state of Illinois, the nation and much of the world would shut down and hasten that process.As I write this, the Cook County Recorder of Deeds was been shut down for days but …