SPRINGFIELD - An experimental voucher program for Chicago Public Schools was shot down in the House on Wednesday, suggesting that state-endorsed alternatives for students at failing public schools aren't going to be adopted any time soon. The House ...

General Growth Properties Inc., the U.S. mall owner trying to emerge from bankruptcy, has secured debt and leveraged assets that make its balance sheet "scary," Chief Executive Officer David Simon of rival Simon Property Group Inc. said today in con...

Buffalo Grove's senior baseball players aren't accustomed to success. They won 4 games as sophomores and were part of a 13-18 team as juniors. Now the Bison are a win away from matching last year's total and take a four-game winning streak and share...

Buffalo Grove bull; Vandals broke the hatchback window to a vehicle in the 1-100 block of West Fox Hill Drive at 7:30 a.m. April 26 and scratched the paint. bull; Thieves stole more than $300 in model cars which were delivered by USPS to t...

Patent settlements reached by drug companies including Bayer AG may violate antitrust laws, a U.S. appeals court said, citing a rise in cases in which makers of brand-name medicines pay rivals to delay generic products. A three-judge panel of the 2n...

You may in fact need to "turn your head around" to lead your business out of the Great Recession. At least that's what Charlie Bishop, president of Chicago Change Partners Inc., a Northbrook firm that helps companies navigate change, advocated in la...

Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, sold stocks in the first quarter as Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wilson bet corporate debt will provide higher returns. "Our outlook for the economy is more of the same slow g...