Navigating the changes
Starting Thursday, consumers will see the first phase of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. The bill's strongest measures take effect next year. Experts from Credit.com,...
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As clock ticks, will sales click?
It's beginning to look a lot like a last-minute Christmas. As the final weekend of Christmas shopping begins, Americans feeling the effects of recession find themselves further behind in their...
Predawn discount dash
With the official start of the holiday shopping season, the Chicago Tribune sent a team of reporters to area retailers to gauge the crowds and sales on Black Friday starting...
Sounding off on the economy
Tia Dixon, 24, student, Chicago What's your main personal worry about the economy? "I'm worried about the job market I'll be graduating into next year. I've made plans to study...
Cook officials say court system near ‘meltdown’
Cook County's top prosecutor and public defender -- opponents in so many cases -- made a unified plea Thursday, lambasting budget cuts they say have stretched their offices to the...
2nd teen held in attacks
The second teenager charged in a string of violent robberies around the University of Chicago campus last week admitted in a videotaped confession to police to taking part in the...
10 more O’Hare workers are arrested
Federal immigration officials announced Thursday they have arrested 10 more workers in an alleged fake ID scam at O'Hare International Airport, raising the number of defendants to 36. The operation...
With one voice, House OKs teen driving bill
Without a single dissenting vote, the Illinois House on Wednesday sent to the governor one of the nation's toughest sets of teen driving restrictions -- including a tripling of the...
With one voice, House OKs teen driving bill
Without a single dissenting vote, the Illinois House on Wednesday sent to the governor one of the nation's toughest sets of teen driving restrictions -- including a tripling of the...
2 slayings viewed as robberies
A Schaumburg man was fatally stabbed as he answered a knock on the front door, and a Niles man was shot to death in violence Wednesday in quiet suburban neighborhoods....