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Feds charge about 60 people — at least 6 from Illinois — in phone scam

August 21, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

At least six individuals in Illinois are among nearly 60 people indicted in a call-center scam in which individuals posing as agents of the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies...

Cars and fans pack Clark Street in Chicago while heading to Wrigley Field in Chicago of Game 2 of the NLCS between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, October 16, 2016.

From goat dishes to soaring Airbnb rates, Cubs fever takes hold

June 9, 2018 at 8:12 a.m.

Chicago Cubs fans eager to beat the Curse of the Billy Goat also want to feast on the billy goat. "It always happens, but this year is crazy," said Cookie...

Debbie Hanson opened Lucky Jack's, a gambling parlor, in Waukegan. It has two other locations, and caters solely to video gambling enthusiasts

Video gambling has hot hand in Illinois

June 9, 2018 at 8:47 a.m.

The lounge at Bertrand Lanes bowling alley was the first Waukegan business to get a license to install video slot machines. Ask owner George Lawrence why he decided to offer...

65 jobs go from Lake County to Wisconsin as packaging firm shifts some operations

June 9, 2018 at 8:53 a.m.

Colbert Packaging, a Lake Forest-based maker of cartons and boxes, including for Frango mints, is moving 65 jobs from Lake County to Kenosha, Wis., citing "the state's favorable business climate"...

In this March 13, 2012, file photo, University of Illinois students study on the Quad on campus in Urbana, Ill. Two-thirds of recent graduates of Illinois colleges and universities have student debt, making them the eighth-most indebted group in the nation's class of 2015, according to a study.

Illinois 2015 college grads owe almost $30,000 on average

June 9, 2018 at 9:43 a.m.

Two-thirds of recent graduates of Illinois colleges and universities have student debt, making them the eighth-most indebted group in the nation's class of 2015, according to a study. Somewhat better...

Supervalu said Oct. 17, 2016, that it is selling its Save-A-Lot supermarket chain for $1.37 billion to Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp. The deal is expected to close before the end of January.

Save-A-Lot grocery chain to be sold to private equity firm for $1.37 billion

June 9, 2018 at 9:22 a.m.

Save-A-Lot, a deep-discount supermarket chain with about 60 Illinois stores, is being sold by Supervalu to a private equity firm for $1.37 billion in cash. Last year, Supervalu said it...

SC Johnson celebrated the opening of its new North American regional headquarters in Chicago on Oct. 13, 2016.

SC Johnson opens Chicago HQ after Emanuel suggested move

June 12, 2018 at 3:44 a.m.

SC Johnson Chief Executive Fisk Johnson recalled the time about four years ago when he crossed paths with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "If memory serves me correctly, we weren't but...

Former British trader Navinder Singh Sarao arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London on March 23, 2016. Sarao has lost his challenge against extradition to the U.S. and will be sent to Chicago to stand trial over charges related to the 2010 "flash crash."

Accused U.K. flash-crash trader loses extradition fight, will appear in Chicago for trial

June 9, 2018 at 10:42 a.m.

Accused "flash crash" trader Navinder Singh Sarao lost his latest round to fight extradition and will be sent from the U.K. to Chicago to face federal charges that he helped...

Beauty retailer Ulta may one day grow to have 1,400 to 1,700 U.S. locations, the company told investors on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016.

Bolingbrook-based beauty retailer Ulta steps up expansion plans

June 9, 2018 at 11:20 a.m.

Helping beauty enthusiasts to get glam still takes a lot of stores. That's the latest thinking of cosmetics merchant Ulta, which on Thursday said it can see a day when...

A banner for Camping World Holdings is draped on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. The country's largest RV retailer raised $250 million for its IPO.

Lemonis’ Camping World raises $250 million in IPO

June 9, 2018 at 12:53 p.m.

Let other businesses obsess over millennials. Being a Gen Xer, even a baby boomer, is OK in the book of one of the Chicago area's newest publicly traded companies. Lincolnshire-based...

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