Stephanie Zimmermann

The CFPB was created by Congress to be a watchdog over the financial industry. Now it’s been neutered.

Co-owner Mitch Einhorn has a lot on his mind but his biggest project for 2025 is starting the renovations on Lush's Roscoe Village location.

The federal Department of Veterans Affairs changes mean some vets are entitled to an extra year of college payments — 48 months instead of 36. But that's not eough, say lawyers for James Rudisill, who successfully argued that the VA wrongly shortchanged him.

The group turned 40 this year but not everyone knows about the CUB’s role in representing ratepayers.

Lowball offers. Unfair denials of claims. Delayed payment. Some nonstandard insurance companies in Illinois have amassed hundreds of complaints, at far higher rates than better known insurers, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis found, leaving customers in the Chicago area and statewide to question…

Fraudulent texts appear to be on the rise. They might include a button to click to give money that supposedly would go to a candidate or a link to a phony website that accepts credit cards.

The Chicago Illusions building gets a tax break because it has two apartments — even though it appears those units are used as part of the business.

In a Sun-Times test, a parked car got dangerously hot in minutes, a reminder that leaving pets or children in a car, even briefly, can quickly turn deadly.

The legislation would protect homeowners from long-term listing agreements, like those peddled by MV Realty, making them unenforceable.

Wactor played Brando Corbin on the ABC soap opera from 2020 to 2022.