More than a month after hail pounded Diane Meore's Des Plaines home during an early spring storm, she's still locked in a grueling process of home and car repairs. The storm has also sparked a competitive market for contractors looking for work. M...

General Growth Properties Inc. gained in New York trading after the U.S. Mall owner, which is working to emerge from bankruptcy, said it reduced writedowns. The shares rose as much as 7.5 percent. Core funds from operations, a measure of cash flow u...

SPRINGFIELD - State lawmakers left the Capitol late Friday without a state budget or solution to a $13 billion deficit, leaving behind growing fiscal uncertainties for suburban schools, social service agencies and anyone else who relies on or does b...

Batavia sophomore Josh Cogan, No. 1 singles for Bulldogs boys tennis the past two years, is unafraid to put it out there - he'd like to play at a college like Stanford, Duke or Northwestern. "I'm really setting my hopes high," he says, and his 21-0...

LOS ANGELES -- Simon Property Group Inc. on Friday withdrew its $6.5 billion bid to acquire rival shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc., following a bankruptcy court ruling that Simon said would have made the deal too expensive. The mov...

A bloody Thursday on Wall Street had many suburban analysts and investors on the edge of their seats as the Dow briefly plunged nearly 1,000 points because of fears of the collapse of Greece mixed with technical or human glitches. A system error ma...

CVS Caremark Corp., the largest U.S. provider of prescription drugs, said its business practices are under investigation by 24 states. The probe is similar to one that was started by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last year, CVS said in a filing ...

Prospect Heights Alderman Richard Hamen, who is also the Republican candidate for state representative in the 57th District, has been found guilty of operating an uninsured motor vehicle. He appeared Friday at the Skokie Courthouse and was ordered t...