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Actors Tobey Maguire, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio are among investors in a $55 million funding round for online mattress seller Casper.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Pritzker Group team up on Casper mattress investment

February 20, 2020 at 12:19 a.m.

Three Hollywood stars and Chicago's Pritzker Group Venture Capital are among investors in a $55 million funding round for online mattress seller Casper. The financing was led by California-based Institutional...

Highest savings interest rates may actually be online: survey

June 15, 2018 at 2:32 p.m.

Cautious savers disheartened by low interest rates might find beacons of hope in a newly published GoBankingRates survey. With savings account rates at banks and credit unions averaging less than...

Fifth Third Bank to close 8 percent of branches

June 15, 2018 at 2:49 p.m.

Fifth Third Bank, a Cincinnati-based lender with a retail presence in Illinois and 11 other states, said Monday that it plans to close or sell about 100 branches, as well...

Illinois lags nation in personal income growth in first quarter

June 15, 2018 at 2:52 p.m.

Illinois lagged the nation in personal income growth in the first quarter, and the state's farming and mining industries saw bigger-than-average drops in earnings. Nationally, state personal income grew 0.9...

Oberhelman's pay package was 363 times what the average U.S. worker made in 2014.
Doug Oberhelman, chairman and chief executive officer of Caterpillar, at the East Peoria plant on Wednesday, March 14, 2012.

Illinois’ CEOs got bigger raises than their peers last year

June 16, 2018 at 5:10 p.m.

Top executives at Illinois' biggest public companies got bigger raises in 2014 than their peers nationally. Median pay for the chief executives of 100 large Illinois companies was $5.7 million...

A new patent secured by insurer Allstate reveals an invention that has the potential to evaluate drivers' physiological data, including heart rate, blood pressure and electrocardiogram signals, which could be recorded from steering wheel sensors.

Insurer monitoring your heart rate? Allstate’s patent makes it possible

June 15, 2018 at 3:07 p.m.

Attention tailgaters: Someday a bank or a potential employer considering your loan or your job application might become privy to your tendencies for aggressive driving. Northbrook-based Allstate, which last month...

Thomas Jung straightens merchandise at Haberdash, a men's clothing store at 611 N. State St. Haberdash also opened a store in Roosevelt Collection in the South Loop but recently closed there.

It’s getting hard to find a men’s clothing store

June 16, 2018 at 5:07 p.m.

Finding a men's clothing store to buy dad a tie for Father's Day isn't as easy as it used to be. The number of men's clothing stores in Illinois has...

9 in 10 consumers say financial pros have best interests at heart: study

June 15, 2018 at 3:49 p.m.

Naive or justifiably trusting? Nine of 10 consumers who work with a paid financial adviser believe such professionals "always puts their interests first," according to a new study. The report...

Illinois named sixth-best state for teen drivers in study

November 6, 2019 at 3:15 a.m.

When it comes to teenagers starting to drive, Illinois parents may have less to worry about than families in most other states. Illinois is the sixth-best state for teen drivers,...

New City Bank defendants settle with FDIC

June 15, 2018 at 3:29 p.m.

Former officials at Chicago's failed New City Bank last month settled a lawsuit filed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in March 2015,...

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