John Schmeltzer

Irene Rosenfeld had hoped Wall Street would give her until 2009 to produce the results from $300 million to $400 million being spent to fix the underperforming brands of Kraft...

United Airlines' main flight operations computer crashed for two hours Wednesday during the morning travel rush, delaying takeoffs and snarling landings for tens of thousands of passengers in the middle...

Bank of America, the nation's second-largest bank, is expected to announce Monday the purchase of LaSalle Bank for $21 billion in a deal that would reshape the Chicago banking scene...

In a little more than 18 months, Mary Dillon, athlete, marathoner and the mother of four children, has taken the world's largest hamburger chain to venues its founder Ray Kroc...

Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., son of the founder and former chairman and president of the drugstore chain that bears his name, was remembered Sunday as a visionary who transformed the...

Chicago resident Hazel Stewart has lost 13 pounds since April, but, while on a walk Friday, she detoured into a McDonald's in Oak Park to see how the recently remodeled...

Federal officials said the arrests of 1,200 undocumented immigrants at meatpacking plants Tuesday highlight a new twist on employment fraud: individuals without valid immigration status buying identity documents of real...

Culver's restaurants, the Wisconsin-based frozen custard and burger chain, will switch to trans fat-free cooking oil by March 1, the company said Monday. The oil, which has been undergoing testing...

A coalition of public health groups agreed Sunday that they would need to increase threats of litigation if they want food companies to improve the fare they offer. "We will...

Though chicken giant KFC Corp. on Monday joined a growing list of restaurant chains eliminating unhealthy trans fat oils from their foods, many companies, including the biggest, McDonald's Corp., have...