Becky Yerak

Allstate Corp. shareholders overwhelmingly approved top executives' pay and rejected three shareholder proposals at the Northbrook-based insurer's annual meeting Tuesday.The average support for all directors who were up for a...

The U.S. government on Friday appealed the sentence of billionaire Ty Warner, the Beanie Babies creator who recently received two years' probation for tax evasion.In January, U.S. District Judge Charles...

State Farm, Illinois' biggest car insurer, plans to raise its auto rates in the state by an average of 2.3 percent starting May 26, according to a filing."Auto insurance rates...

Home and auto insurer Allstate Corp. said Tuesday its profit dropped 17 percent in the first quarter as severe winter weather drove up catastrophe losses.Net income available to common shareholders...

When news of the Target data breach broke late last year, Evanston marketing executive Dick Barton and his wife realized they had bought baby furniture from the discount chain at...

Chase is replacing more MasterCard credit cards with Visa and has discontinued Blink, a contactless payment technology, "due to limited merchant acceptance and low customer usage," according to a letter...

Pritzker Group Private Capital has bought Technimark, a plastic packaging manufacturer that counts Procter & Gamble, Estee Lauder, Wal-Mart and Clorox among its customers. The purchase price of the Asheboro,...

Discover Financial Services has approved a $3.2 billion share repurchase plan and has boosted its quarterly dividend by 20 percent. The Riverwoods-based financial services firm said the share repurchase program...