James P. Miller

A former W.W. Grainger Inc. sales manager has filed a lawsuit against the Lake Forest-based company, alleging the industrial-supply distributor repeatedly overbilled the U.S. government on its supply contracts. In...

Unmoved by testimony about a jet-setting lifestyle at company expense but certain that Hollinger International Inc. had been pilfered, a federal jury on Friday found press baron Conrad Black guilty...

"When the trial first started, it was like, 'What is going on? How is this company related to that company?'" said Tina Kadisak, a 32-year-old beautician and salon operator who...

Chicago's status as a major portal for Hispanic immigrants may also be putting the city at the forefront of an emerging monetary trend?a rise in the use of cash, and...

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. reported Tuesday a 42 percent rise in earnings, and Chief Executive Craig Donohue signaled in an interview that the exchange does not intend to sweeten...

Tribune Co. on Monday disclosed plans to sell Spanish-language newspaper Hoy New York to ImpreMedia LLC. The Chicago-based media holding company, which also owns the Chicago Tribune, didn't disclose terms...

For the nation's manufacturers, partisan issues loom less large than the macroeconomic factors that remain outside the control of either party. Competition from low-cost Asian producers won't ease, for example,...

Caterpillar Inc. expects per-share earnings to rise at least an average of 15 percent a year through 2010, Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Owens told financial analysts and institutional investors...

The U.S. economy experienced a deeper-than-expected slowdown in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported Friday, as higher interest rates and a slumping housing market caused anxious consumers to cut...

Providing further evidence of the U.S. economy's slowing momentum, federal officials on Thursday revised first-quarter gross domestic product growth upward by a lower-than-expected amount. The slightly disappointing GDP data, combined...