David Young

Inland Steel Industries Inc. said Thursday it is quitting the business of making steel plates to concentrate on more lucrative products and will shut down the section of its East...

The chief executive of Illinois' second-largest power company told colleagues at an electricity policy meeting Thursday that the state should deregulate its utilities so customers can have a choice. The...

Spring is a time of gentle showers, gaily colored flowers, budding bowers and that most unnatural of vernal wonders-the corporate annual meeting. In hotel ballrooms, dining halls and conference rooms...

Though the parking deck is growing in popularity in the suburbs, experts point out they are not necessarily a cure for whatever ails certain parts of suburbia. According to a...

With Republicans about to control Congress as well as the Illinois General Assembly and governor's office, business executives will probably like the next two years. And although Chicago business and...

Chicago and North Western Holdings Corp. said Thursday it would reorganize its operating department in the wake of the discovery of accounting irregularities. The railroad also confirmed it has discovered...

Main event:The economy continues to resemble a scratchy phonograph record playing at the wrong speed. For three years or more, the music was too slow, the sound a bit murky....

The thick, sour darkness of night on the Mississippi River had started to dissolve by the time the Conti Betty Lynn, an 827-ton towboat shoving 24 barges, began its journey...

It may be a sign of the economy, but a global-trade and maritime-transporta tion conference scheduled recently for Milwaukee`s Pfister Hotel was canceled for lack of interest. The sponsoring St....

She definitely doesn`t care to be called Tugboat Annie. The name is Teddi Inman. On the other hand, ''My crews at times have called me a lot worse.'' That she...