The Illinois House voted 81-31 in favor of legislation requiring the governor to get the General Assembly's approval before being able to sell any state asset worth $1 million or more. The proposal targets the potential sale of a state prison in Tho...

When Claire and Steve Larsen of Aurora arrived in New York City with their son Thomas, then 10, they had hoped to get him the right experience and exposure for his modeling and acting career. They paid about $5,000 to Chicago-based Latte Model and T...

New York cars are struck twice as often by hit-and-run drivers when parked than when in transit, according to Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded auto insurer in the U.S. Seventy percent of New York's hit-and-run crashes involved parked cars...

NORTHBROOK - Allstate Corp., the second-largest home and auto insurer nationwide, is buying agencies from some underperforming agents after the company began measuring their performance using customer loyalty as a standard, Chief Executive Officer T...

Just so we're clear, this is less criticism than it is suggestion. Either way, Derrick Rose is going to have to learn to control his body better when he's up among the trees. If the NBA were as physical as it used to be, this is not a lesson Rose wo...

AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. would be forced to lease fast Internet lines to rivals providing Web services to small businesses under a proposal being weighed by U.S. regulators. Locally, Verizon has operations in Schaumburg. AT&T has op...

News about club meetings and events for people who share hobbies. Deadline is two weeks before event date. Feb. 11 Catholic Women's Club of Lake County: 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, St. Dismas Catholic Church, 2600 Sunset Ave., Waukegan. All...