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Mortgage
Purchase, refinance, jumbo, investment and tough scenarios — straight answers from someone who has worked through more than three decades of market cycles.
Mortgage help →
Chicago roots • national reach
Mortgage advice.
Turned up.
Serious mortgage experience without the corporate wallpaper — plus live music, local events and useful stuff worth coming back for.
Mortgage applications are completed securely through New American Funding.
Alex IlichBranch Manager • NMLS #295870
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Live & Loud
Drop in a ZIP code and find concerts near you. No house hunt required. No mortgage pitch hiding behind the button.
Find a show →03
Local Life
Enter a ZIP code to find sports, festivals, arts, family events and other things happening nearby — not just concerts.
Find things to do →The serious part
Experience when the deal gets complicated.
Alex Ilich has spent more than 30 years in lending — as a bank officer, mortgage company owner and now Branch Manager with New American Funding. He and assistant Dan run a high-touch operation built around responsiveness, honest answers and getting the deal closed.
30+Years in lending
NMLS#295870
New American FundingBranch Manager
Loan availability, licensing and program eligibility vary by borrower, property location and loan program.
Alex Ilich • NMLS #295870 • LMB #100537509
New American Funding, LLC • NMLS #6606 • Equal Housing Lender
A reason to come back
Not everything here is about mortgages.
That's intentional. RockNLoan should be useful whether you're buying a house this month, next year, or not at all. Live & Loud handles concerts. Local Life now adds a separate ZIP-based finder for sports, arts, family events, festivals and more.
Open Live & Loud
Who's Who
2026
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About Alex
Mortgage guy. Guitar player. Rose Bowl champion.
Chicago Agent Magazine called Alex a modern-day Renaissance man. That's pretty close. Born and raised in Chicago, he followed his father into mortgage lending and has spent more than 30 years learning how to navigate every kind of market.
Along the way he played on Wisconsin's 1994 Rose Bowl championship team, became a lead guitarist, scuba diver and motorcyclist — and built his mortgage business around a simple idea: be relentlessly responsive and don't waste people's time.
RockNLoan is where those worlds meet: experienced mortgage guidance, music, local life and a little personality.
FeaturedChicago Agent Magazine • Who's Who 2026
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