Laurie Cohen

Two Detroit men, the last of seven suspects to be arrested on charges of conspiring to embezzle nearly $70 million from the First National Bank of Chicago, posted bond and...

The top two officers of Pathway Financial were abruptly replaced Thursday amid new signs of financial woes at the Chicago area`s tenth-biggest savings and loan institution. Documents filed in Cook...

Federal regulators closed struggling Rockford-based Life Savings of America late Friday and transferred its deposits to TCF Bank and Savings, Minnesota`s largest thrift. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said...

Illinois Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan filed suit Tuesday against Diamond Mortgage Corp. and A.J. Obie & Associates Inc., charging that the related companies violated state securities law by selling unregistered...

Two investors in Diamond Mortgage Corp. of Illinois filed a class action suit in Cook County Circuit Court Friday charging officers, shareholders and movie stars who advertised the firm with...

President Reagan has promised the Senate Banking Committee he won`t skirt the committee`s confirmation role by making a controversial appointment to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during Congress` Labor...

The Senate Finance Committee`s sweeping new tax bill is winning praise from many businessmen, who applaud its lower tax rates and the prospect that consumers may have more to spend....

Bankruptcy lawyer Jim Chatz had been trying to track down Bernard M. Krakower ever since a small Florida meat wholesaler filed for bankruptcy reorganization early this year. When he learned...

Melvin Van Peebles is known as a jack-of-all-trades. Even so, the militant-movie maker turned Wall Street trader was skeptical when a publisher approached him about writing a book on how...

A proposed affiliation between the Chicago Board of Trade and the struggling MidAmerica Commodity Exchange appears slated for approval Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The plan had been...