Corilyn Shropshire

Hiring prospects are expected to be much brighter for Chicago-area job hunters in the second quarter according to a forecast released Tuesday by staffing firm ManpowerGroup. Nineteen percent of the...

Curt Matthews is pushing back. The chief executive of the Chicago-based Independent Publishers Group is up against an almost insurmountable force, Amazon.com. The online retailer rakes off half the cover...

A new survey of mid-sized nonprofits with revenues ranging between $1 million and $5 million found that they lag in financial knowledge and cash reserves.While 76 percent of the respondents...

Illinois has recovered more than $20 million from individuals who were collecting unemployment benefits while gainfully employed, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said Tuesday. The effort is part of...

For one Chicago book distributor and publisher,Amazon.compushed just a bit too far. Independent Publishers Group has found itself in a struggle with the world's largest online retailer over terms of...

Chicago-based printing and communications giant R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.78 per diluted share, or $326.7 million, down from a profit of 13 cents...

Amazon.com has pulled 5,000 of its Kindle electronic book titles distributed by Chicago-based Independent Publishers Group (IPG) after a dispute in terms, IPG confirmed Wednesday. Amazon began removing the independent...

Two years ago, Shane Talbott was like many struggling small-business owners: He couldn't get a line of credit from the bank. Now he doesn't need one. His budding specialty tea...