Becky Yerak

A lawsuit in which Discover Financial Services was accused of repeatedly making automated and prerecorded calls to cellphone users without their permission has been settled for $8.7 million.The settlement in...

German technology company SAP said Wednesday it plans to buy Chicago-based Fieldglass, which makes software used by companies to manage relationships with employees, temporary workers and vendors. Fieldglass has 350...

Hersch Klaff, a one-time bidder for the Chicago Cubs, has partnered with some of the biggest names in the investment business — the Pritzker family, Cerberus Capital Management, Lubert-Adler, Sun...

Illinois homeowners with State Farm insurance policies are seeing an average increase in their premiums of 4.9 percent, according to newly filed documents with the Illinois Department of Insurance. Weather-related...

A Chicago investment firm has agreed to invest up to $27 million in a Maryland company that says it plans to use some of the proceeds for medical marijuana research.Nuvilex...

Abe's Market, an online store for organic and natural products, has created a $10 million fund from which it plans to invest in the types of companies that sell their...

Shares of Allstate Corp. rose about 6 percent on Thursday after the Northbrook-based insurer reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and said it planned big investments in new products that monitor driver...

Northbrook-based venture capital firm MK Capital has provided $2.4 million in funding to Lincolnwood's ADAR IT, a cloud computing company. MK Capital invests in early- and growth-stage companies in software...

A federal judge rejected calls from prosecutors for a prison sentence of at least a year and Tuesday sentenced billionaire Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner to two years of probation...