Gail Marks Jarvis

The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to rule Wednesday on whether to allow a Chinese group of investors to buy the Chicago Stock Exchange, a controversial deal that some...

In an effort to recruit employees in competitive fields and help motivate older workers to leave the workplace when they hit retirement age, companies are becoming more generous with their...

Box Options Exchange received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to start a new open-outcry options trading floor in Chicago. The approval allows Box, which focuses on...

Loeb & Loeb, a law firm based in New York and Los Angeles, announced Wednesday that it is adding a trust and estates practice to its Chicago office as six...

Over the last decade, the frenzied screaming and hand-waving on exchange trading floors has started to go the way of the horse and buggy. The so-called open-outcry trading floors that...

Chicago real estate mogul Sean Conlon has come a long way from the small home in Ireland where he grew up sharing a bed with two brothers. Now 48, and...

The Illinois treasurer's office now says that transferring the state's 529 Bright Start college savings plan to a new administrator resulted in technical problems that kept families from accessing their...

The momentum Chicago-area housing sales had earlier this year has faded. In June, 14,052 homes were sold in the Chicago area, just a 1 percent gain over a year earlier....

A decade after the housing crash destroyed the American Dream for millions of homeowners, black homeownership rates have dropped to levels not seen since the 1960s, hobbling African-Americans' efforts to...