Becky Yerak

Northern Trust Corp. beat back a shareholder proposal that would have required the Chicago-based company to update its stockholders semiannually about lobbying and political spending. Northern Trust, in a Securities...

Anne Dias Griffin's "pit bull" lawyer has withdrawn from the team representing her in the divorce filed last year by her billionaire husband, court records show. Robert Cohen, a New...

Nearly 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, the litigation goes on. State Farm, to minimize its losses from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, "systemically mischaracterized" wind damage — which its policies covered...

The rollout of credit and debit cards with embedded microchips will be "rocky," as consumers begin to realize they must dip the plastic instead of swipe it at the nation's...

Chicago's biggest bank posted first-quarter earnings Tuesday that handily beat analysts' forecasts. Northern Trust, which serves corporate and institutional customers and wealthy individuals and families, earned 94 cents a share...

Peter Thompson, a nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and former chief executive of Perkins Investment Management, is starting his own firm, Magis Leadership Advisers. Magis has three...

Wait times for taxpayers who called the Internal Revenue Service's toll-free hotline more than doubled to nearly 25 minutes over the past year, according to a federal watchdog report released...