Becky Yerak

Home and auto insurer USAA said it has asked the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to research how drones could be used to improve how it settles claims during natural...

By Allstate Corp. standards, it's small — $602 million in annual premiums for a property and casualty insurer that last year generated almost $30 billion selling mostly auto and home...

The Internal Revenue Service sometimes writes off debts as uncollectible before it finishes researching the cases, putting billions of dollars that should be going into the government coffers at risk,...

Chase has widened its market share lead in the Chicago banking market, according to numbers released Monday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The New York-based bank had market share...

Chicago has the seventh-highest ATM fees in the nation, but Windy City consumers who overdraw their checking accounts get a break compared with depositors elsewhere, according to Bankrate.com's 17th annual...

CF Industries, which last week announced it was in merger talks with Norway's Yara International, has aggressively reinvested in itself. Deerfield-based CF Industries' capital spending of $824 million last year...

Investing in your own business is an optimistic bet on your future, a sign you expect to make more money by spending on everything from technology to machinery to new...

Sure, Walmart.com is the place to go to buy everything from sporting goods to beauty supplies. Now it aims to be a resource for quotes for car insurance. The discount...

Six of Illinois' biggest companies hold a combined $100 billion in profits overseas, a strategy that keeps those earnings from being subject to U.S. corporate income taxes. The tax-trimming move...