Allan Johnson

William J. Stoecker, the bankrupt south suburban businessman, was arrested on fraud charges Wednesday by FBI agents, who said he hid more than $800,000 in cash and checks from a...

John Lytle, a former Continental Bank vice president, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Tuesday by a federal judge who chastised him for living ''a life way out...

The American Farm Bureau reported Thursday that the number of states hit hard by the drought has risen to 24 and that crop conditions in Illinois have worsened despite recent...

In the first criminal convictions arising from the near collapse of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago four years ago, two former bankers pleaded guilty Thursday to...