Wal-Mart protest in West Loop draws 125 picketers
About 125 people picketed outside a Wal-Mart store in Chicago's West Loop on Friday morning, asking the retail giant to pay its workers $15 an hour. The rally in freezing...
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Riot damage to Ferguson businesses could be covered with insurance
The images were inescapable: businesses in Ferguson, Mo., damaged or destroyed by rioting in the wake of the Michael Brown grand jury decision. What happens now to those livelihoods? Small-business...
Chicago banks, investment firms join forces to boost minority hiring
As the nation gets more diverse, 13 financial services firms with operations in the Chicago area have joined together to look for ways to get more black and Latino workers...
Visit to psychologist is fair game in Griffin divorce, wife says
In a contentious divorce, Chicago multibillionaire Ken Griffin has said Anne Dias Griffin violated his rights by revealing that they went to a couple's therapy session days before their wedding....
Griffin vs. Griffin: Dividing the wealth
'Quick update," said the subject line of the email Jan. 10, 2012. "I just got the pre-2005 paper records from storage and I see one additional payment ...," Anne Dias...
The tug of war over Griffin children
Picking names for children is always tough. Ken Griffin tackled the challenge with spread sheets, said Jodi Furlong, Griffin's former assistant. Her desk was next to his for 13 of...
Bank overdraft fees range from $5 to $45, survey says
Overdraft fees charged by banks have come under scrutiny by federal regulators in recent years, but the charges vary widely, a new study shows. The range of prices banks and...
AbbVie wants to look at deals outside the U.S.
North Chicago-based AbbVie, which recently scrapped a $55 billion offer to buy Shire in a deal that would have moved its headquarters overseas, said Friday it has the "wherewithal to...
Chicago nursing home owner Aviv to be bought for $3 billion
Chicago-based nursing home owner Aviv REIT is being acquired by a Maryland competitor in a $3 billion stock deal. Aviv shareholders will receive the equivalent of $34.97 in Omega Healthcare...
Chase rates highly in J.D. Power small-business banking survey
Chase nabbed one of the highest scores in the newly released 2014 J.D. Power customer satisfaction survey for small-business banking. Among banks doing business in the Midwest, Chase, based in...