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A coalition of gay marriage advocates plans to release a letter this week signed by top Illinois executives and companies endorsing same-sex marriage as an economic imperative, giving a powerful push to a bill that state lawmakers could take up as early...

By Becky Yerak | Ralph Mandell, the PrivateBancorp Inc. co-founder who transformed the lender in 2007 by hiring dozens of former LaSalle Bank executives, plans to retire as chairman of the Chicago-based bank holding company in 2011, when his term as...

By Becky Yerak | Chicago-based lender PrivateBancorp saw its stock close up 10.8 percent Wednesday, at $16.34 a share, as it moved in tandem with other lenders posting good results. PrivateBancorp has grown rapidly since 2007, but has recently...

Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 18, 7:30 a.m.; PMI manufacturing flash index for May, 7:58 a.m.; FHFA housing price index for March, 8 a.m.; New home sales for April, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 23, 9 a.m.; Natural gas...

On a September evening, in a large tent pitched outside his bank in downtown Lake Forest, Ed Wehmer took the microphone and addressed 350 people celebrating the 20th anniversary of what is now Wintrust Financial Corp. The jocular 57-year-old is known...

When the subject of private equity comes up, it's usually the big deals that come to mind. Think Blackstone Group's purchase of Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust. But according to a new trade group trying to spread the word about the...

Monday: -- Earnings: American Express Co.; Apollo Group Inc.; Apple Inc.; Halliburton Co.; Hasbro Inc.; Kimberly-Clark Corp.; Merck & Co.; Pactiv Corp.; PrivateBancorp Inc.; Schering-Plough Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc.; Wintrust Financial Corp.; Zebra...