David Young

Chicago's first municipal airport commenced operations on this date with considerable fanfare but very little business. The first plane to land there was flown from the western suburb of Maywood...

Concern among American manufacturing executives over the economy is expected to continue through May, according to Cahners Publishing Co., which reported a dip in confidence in April, the first in...

For an hour, while passengers were boarding the steamship Eastland on this rainy but otherwise calm Saturday, the ship slowly rocked back and forth from starboard to port. The motion...

Upon their arrival at the windy dunes along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan, Octave Chanute and his assistants started to unload strange-looking contraptions from the crates they had brought...

Nearly a century ago Amoco Corp.'s predecessor discovered a developing market for a kerosene byproduct called gasoline and saw a profit to be made by eliminating middlemen and selling it...

A trade association of tire dealers Thursday charged that a seemingly innocuous bill winding its way through the Illinois legislature is an attempt to triple the state's little-known tire tax...

As Chicago boomed in the 1850s, growing into a major lake port and industrial center, mud became a major problem. The lakeshore marsh on which the city was being built...

Slumbering beast A couple of four-letter words have been popping up in discussions about the economy recently--food and fuel. The October update of the consumer price index is due out...

Joining the rush of spinoffs, Inland Steel Industries Inc. said Tuesday it will sell a 15 percent stake in its booming metals distribution business and borrow against that new corporation...

USX Corp. has agreed to spend $190 million to clean up facilities and cut air pollution at its Gary Works, the nation's biggest steel mill, said officials of the company...