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Paul Manafort, then campaign manager for Donald Trump, is interviewed at the Republican National Convention in July 2016. Manafort, who later resigned his post, is under scrutiny from a special prosecutor and members of Congress for his dealings with Russian interests.

Report: Prosecutors demand records on Chicago bank’s loans to Paul Manafort

December 18, 2018 at 1:07 a.m.

Chicago-based Federal Savings Bank wouldn't comment Tuesday on a report that New York prosecutors have subpoenaed records related to $16 million in loans the institution made to former Donald Trump...

Bar association sues state over prosecution of lawyers in property tax cases

June 3, 2018 at 7:44 a.m.

A state crackdown on two Chicago lawyers for their efforts to reduce clients' property tax bills calls into question how real estate assessments are often challenged. The state Department of...

‘Rogue importer’ diverted shipment of Mexican cheese to pay off debt, lawsuit says

June 3, 2018 at 7:43 a.m.

A Wheaton company says a "rogue importer" moved its cheese, and the company wants it back. Food Brands alleges in a lawsuit filed last week that $68,000 of "artisan, aged...

A shopper at the Pete's Fresh Market in Chicago on June 22, 2017.

Appeals court upholds temporary restraining order on Cook County soda tax

June 3, 2018 at 8:02 a.m.

A temporary restraining order issued last month by a Cook County Circuit Court judge over the county's planned penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages was upheld Monday by an Illinois appellate...

A Chicago campus of DeVry University is seen in 2013. Students who attended DeVry between 2008 and Oct. 1, 2015, may be eligible to receive refund checks under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Refund checks to former DeVry students in the mail, FTC says

June 3, 2018 at 10:43 a.m.

Refund checks averaging about $280 began hitting the mail Wednesday as part of a previously announced settlement between Downers Grove-based DeVry University and the Federal Trade Commission over allegedly deceptive...

Breanna Franklin is photographed June 13, 2017, at her home in Chicago. Franklin is one of about 50 people who are suing Carbon Live Fire Mexican Grill over an outbreak of food poisoning last summer that health authorities linked to tainted cilantro at the restaurant.

Returning to Taste, Carbon Live Fire still fighting fallout from food poisoning outbreak

June 3, 2018 at 12:26 p.m.

As lunchtime customers streamed into Carbon Live Fire Mexican Grill on a recent weekday to order tilapia tacos and steak burritos, there was little sign that a year ago the...

After a retail group and several grocers filed a lawsuit, a judge put a temporary hold on Cook County's soda tax, which was set to go into effect on Saturday. Above, shoppers browse the soda aisle at Pete's Fresh Market in Chicago.

Judge blocks Cook County soda pop tax

June 3, 2018 at 11:38 a.m.

A judge on Friday put Cook County's penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages on hold at least until July 12. It was set to go into effect Saturday. The ruling by...

Judge will rule Friday on whether to temporarily halt Cook County soda pop tax

June 3, 2018 at 11:56 a.m.

A Cook County judge is expected to rule Friday afternoon whether to put a temporary halt to Cook County's penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages. The tax is set to go...

Court hearing on lawsuit to block Cook County soda pop tax postponed

June 3, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.

An emergency hearing over Cook County's sweetened beverage tax — scheduled to go into effect Saturday — has been postponed until Thursday afternoon. Cook County Circuit Judge James McGing on...

An American flag flies over the U.S. Supreme Court June 29, 2015 in Washington.

Supreme Court ruling could make it harder to file class-action lawsuits against companies

August 21, 2019 at 11:51 p.m.

The courtrooms of Madison County — and Cook County, for that matter — may lose their allure as "litigation tourism" destinations after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that will...

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