David Young

State lawmakers are routinely pressured by professional lobbyists representing various special-interest groups. And now, legislators will have a new group to contend with before passing any laws that would affect...

Nancy Rigney and Kay Nolan were working wives in west suburban Winfield who, after putting in a full day at the office, used to go home and start all over...

Thousands of Caterpillar Inc. workers, most with grim expressions and some with calendars tucked beneath their arms, began to trudge back to work on a cheerless, gray Monday in Peoria,...

For half a century the United Auto Workers has been one of the nation`s largest, most powerful and progressive unions-an organization that commanded serious attention from the executive suites in...

The Naperville headquarters of First United Realtors shut down Thursday as state investigators stepped up inquiries into financial operations of the company, which has about a dozen offices in the...

In what may be a preview of coming attractions in the executive suite as Baby Boomers age, one of the Chicago area`s major corporations and a former senior vice president...

The marketing idea-designed to lure shoppers to suburban malls in these recessionary times-was wild and woolly, even though there was nothing new about it. In fact, it was so prehistoric...

Sara Lee Bakery, in a reversal of corporate migration patterns common in Chicago and other major U.S. cities since the 1950s, is moving its headquarters from the suburbs to downtown...

The season`s first major storm buried northern sections of the Chicago area with a foot of heavy snow, brought O`Hare International Airport and road traffic to a virtual standstill and...

Regular Republican candidates, including nine incumbents, filed petitions Monday to begin what appears will a wide-open race for 13 seats on the McHenry County Board against a smattering of independent-minded...