Illinois Business News

Travelers across the United States arrived en masse at airports, hit the roads and boarded trains Wednesday, a day before Thanksgiving. "You have to be calm and collected when you come to this airport, especially on a day like today,"...

Mens' magazine publisher Playboy Enterprises Inc. said Tuesday that it's going to outsource all business functions except editorial to American Media Inc. American Media will handle production, circulation, advertising sales, marketing and other services of Playboy magazine and other publications....

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.78% this week, matching an all-time low in Freddie Mac's weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates, released Wednesday...This week's average matched a low set the week ending April 30. A good time to buy...

After a Rockport, Ind., plant turns coal into natural gas, it will send the carbon dioxide produced as a byproduct to the Gulf of Mexico via a pipeline. Once there, the CO2 will be pumped into wells to force up...

Zions Bancorp shares fell Tuesday, a day after the stock rallied, after an analyst reiterated concerns about the regional bank's credit problems, . Shares of Zions declined 68 cents, or 4.8 percent, to $13.44 in afternoon trading. It rallied 12.5...

Kan. — MGP Ingredients Inc. says it has entered a partnership that will allow it to reopen distillery operations at a plant in Pekin, Ill...A separate entity, called Illinois Corn Processing LLC, will use the plant to produce food-grade and...

The new governor's actions backed that up; Quinn fired several high-level Blagojevich aides in his first few weeks on the job and followed up by replacing most of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees amid the school's clout-admissions scandal....