Samantha Bomkamp

Americans are defaulting on their credit cards at the highest rate in nearly a year, and Chicagoans are leading the pack. Chicago residents are now more likely to miss a...

State and federal health officials are investigating a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts at Jimmy John’s. Two cases involving Illinois residents have been reported, and Jimmy John’s said it...

You can’t pry the lattes out of Chicagoans’ winter-worn fingers, and those coffee sales are driving growth in an otherwise stagnant restaurant industry. Growth in customer visits at coffee chains...

Roseland Community Hospital has laid off 35 employees and reduced the pay of all of its nonunion staff in an effort to cut costs at the South Side health facility....

The Illinois House of Representatives has formed a subcommittee to vet bitcoin legislation and study the potential use of its underlying technology. Rep. Mike Zalewski, D-Riverside, who will chair the...

Illinois residents who faced foreclosure or lost their homes due to alleged improper mortgage loan servicing practices by PHH Mortgage Corp. are eligible to collect $1.5 million in cash payments...

If 2017 was the year of a national reckoning on workplace sexual harassment, 2018 may be when reports from victims in cubicles and corner offices start piling up. Here’s why...

A small number of workers at O'Hare International Airport’s restaurants, bars and coffee shops walked off the job for several hours Thursday — one of the busiest travel days of...

The National Labor Relations Board has overturned a landmark Obama-era rule that left companies vulnerable to lawsuits filed by employees of franchisees and contractors over labor violations. Groups representing industries...

Federal regulators’ decision to end net neutrality and roll back regulations that some say kept data flowing freely on the internet has left some Chicago business owners concerned for their...