Illinois lawmakers advanced two long-debated measures to prevent insurance companies from raising auto and homeowners’ insurance rates without more stringent state oversight.

Groupon, the Chicago-based online marketplace, is slashing up to 400 positions — nearly a fourth of its worldwide workforce — in a plan to rebuild as an AI-native company.

Illinois would become the first state to require independent, third-party audits of the safety practices of large frontier artificial intelligence developers.

Nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago rallied outside the facility Wednesday, protesting what they describe as a crackdown on their efforts to unionize by owner Prime Healthcare.

A prominent Chicago personal-injury attorney who represented Northwestern University athletes during a hazing scandal that cost the school’s football coach his job has listed his Nantucket-style house in Winnetka.

This three-bedroom, three-bathroom home has 180-degree views of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline from floor-to-ceiling curved windows.

A traffic crash involving two Chicago Transit Authority buses in Garfield Park Wednesday night left a CTA driver critically wounded and several other commuters injured, authorities said.

The decline of physical bookstores ended years ago, and the latest numbers from the American Booksellers Association show independent stores are expanding at a pace not seen this century.