Samantha Bomkamp

Next time, the Whopper can come to you. Burger King on Tuesday announced it will launch delivery service in the Chicago area. The Miami fast food chain said delivery will...

Illinois had the second-largest decrease in employment in the nation last month, the Labor Department reported Friday. The state lost 17,800 jobs, second only to Ohio, where employment fell by...

McDonald's said Friday its first-quarter profit was flat from a year earlier as the world's largest hamburger chain continued to face a string of disappointing monthly sales blamed on penny-pinching...

Abbott said Thursday it is preparing for the U.S. launch of its lens for the treatment of cataract patients with astigmatism after receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration....

Mortgage rates moved closer to historic lows this week, lender Freddie Mac said Thursday, on a combination of an improving housing market and fears that consumers are pulling back on...

The Great Recession reversed a decades-long trend of so-called job sprawl -- employers spreading out to the suburbs or beyond a city's central business district -- according to a study...

American Airlines said its computer system glitch was repaired late Tuesday after a massive outage of more than four hours led it to ground its entire fleet, causing widespread cancellations...

Industrial supply company W.W. Grainger said Tuesday that its first-quarter earnings rose 13 percent on a combination of higher sales and lower costs. The Chicago company, which makes everything from...

An index of consumer prices in the Chicago area fell slightly last month, the government reported Tuesday, echoing the nation as a whole and reflecting a break in gasoline prices....

Chicago private equity firm Madison Dearborn has agreed to buy National Financial Partners Corp. in a deal the companies value at $1.3 billion. The purchase price works out to $25.35...