Terry Savage: Stress test your money By Terry Savage July 29, 2026 at 1:30 a.m. Ask yourself “what if” on all your economic assumptions. The real question is “what if...
From salons to taquerías, CPS students get to work on their summer internships By Kate Armanini July 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. The Chicago Public Schools summer internship program connects 1,400 teens with real-world work experience for...
Terry Savage: Credit card breathing room By Terry Savage July 28, 2026 at 1:30 a.m. Americans hold roughly $1.25 trillion in credit card debt, with the average consumer carrying $6,595...
Terry Savage: New student loan rules By Terry Savage July 27, 2026 at 1:30 a.m. New student loan rules have just gone into effect — an ever-changing and complicated array...
Terry Savage: What Trump accounts can do for your kids’ future By Terry Savage July 26, 2026 at 1:30 a.m. Trump accounts are now open — and should be viewed on a financial, not political,...
Americans adjust their grocery shopping habits while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years By Dee-Ann Durbin July 25, 2026 at 5:07 p.m. With a conflict in the Middle East creating more price pressures, the cost of filling...
Terry Savage: Insuring your summer road trip rental By Terry Savage July 25, 2026 at 1:30 a.m. Now that gas prices are starting to come down, millions of Americans will hit the...
Pritzker administration to lay off workers and reduce operations at downstate Choate facility By Olivia Olander July 24, 2026 at 5:26 p.m. Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration is significantly reducing staffing at a long-troubled downstate center for people...
Gas, groceries and back-to-school items likely to spike with higher oil prices By Cathy Bussewitz July 23, 2026 at 8:25 p.m. Companies that produce and sell fresh food, school supplies and anything that gets shipped using...
President Trump imposes double-digit tariffs on dozens of countries as his 10% levies are set to expire By Paul Wiseman July 23, 2026 at 4:43 p.m. President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading...