Samantha Bomkamp

Major social media sites Facebook and Twitter and several email servers experienced intermittent outages on Thursday. Twitter appeared to be the only site still experiencing a major outage as of...

Mondelez International, which makes Oreos, Cadbury chocolate and Trident gum, said Thursday that it signed a deal with Twitter that will allow it to better analyze the effectiveness of its...

United Airlines said Thursday it will launch seasonal nonstop service to Edinburgh, Scotland, from O'Hare International Airport starting in May. The flights will operate five times weekly from May 22...

Walgreens has formed a long-term partnership with a laboratory testing service that will eventually allow customers nationwide to get lab tests at the drugstore chain that previously took place at...

McDonald's has introduced family-size meal boxes in the United States for the first time, but they're not yet available in Chicago. The world's largest burger chain is offering the "Blitz...

Baxter International Inc. said Friday that it has completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of Gambro AB, a private Swedish medical technology company.It's the biggest acquisition for Deerfield-based Baxter and increases...

Lake Forest-based vehicle parts supplier Tenneco Inc. said Thursday it will lay off nearly 500 employees in Europe as part of a planned restructuring because of continued weak economic conditions....

State employers gave notice of possible layoffs to almost 600 workers last month, according to a report filed Thursday.A bulk of those layoffs are at Booklet Binding in Carol Stream,...

Walgreens shoppers could pay up to 55 percent more for products at stores in the same city, according to a study by a consumer watchdog group released Thursday.The huge price...