Jun 19, 2013 10:33 AM

A group of developers have purchased the basement of a luxury condominium building from the city of Chicago that was once the site of a famed restaurant.Officials say the former home of Maxim's de Paris was purchased for $1.37 million by a group that wants to re-establish it as a gourmet restaurant.

Jun 19, 2013 1:04 PM

Men’s Wearhouse Inc. has dismissed its founder and executive chairman George Zimmer. In a terse release issued Wednesday, the company didn’t give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men’s Wearhouse from one small Texas store using a cigar box as a cash register to one of the nation’s largest specialty retailers in men’s clothing, with 1,143 locations.

Jun 19, 2013 11:10 AM

Illinois residents using mobile phones are wasting $1.4 billion a year by signing up for the wrong cellphone data plan, according to a consumer advocacy group's study released Tuesday. In a news release, the Citizens Utility Board said that the analysis found that the difference between the amount of data paid for and the amount actually used added up to about $194 a year for smartphone users and about $30 a year on traditional wireless phones.

Jun 19, 2013 11:25 AM

In a surprising reversal of an earlier decision, the Des Plaines City Council Monday night denied an extension for a temporary conditional use permit that would have allowed the Fountain Blue banquet facility to continue operating its outdoor tent for 18 months. “I was for this, but this thing stinks," 4th Ward Alderman Dick Sayad said. "I'm not going to vote for this.”

Jun 18, 2013 12:42 PM

The Schaumburg-based American Veterinary Medical Association is celebrating its 150th anniversary this month, with 38 of those years spent in Schaumburg. After jumping around to different locations since 1863, the group finally ended up in the Northwest suburb in 1975.