David Elsner

It isn`t easy to fool the Dow Jones News Service, but it happened Monday. A man named P. David Herrlinger, identifying himself as a representative of Stone Inc., a private...

To its dismay, General Motors has found that, rather than being paved with gold, the road to the 21st Century is filled with reduced-speed zones and detours. Consider the woes...

Harold Washington, Chicago`s populist mayor who frequently finds himself mingling with Wall Street investment bankers and bond analysts, says finding new sources of city revenue is the primary problem around...

Last June, the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, one of the city`s most prestigious business organizations, threw a party marking the birth of its Chicagoland Enterprise Center,...

If I were an employer, I might not hire me. In the course of preparing the accompanying article, I took three different pen-and-pencil honesty tests. I failed the first one,...

State regulators moved Thursday to close down the operations of an Itasca-based financial counselor who has been selling investors hard-asset accounts, containing gems, rare coins, biblical antiquities and paintings, with...

The Crown family, whose wealth has been estimated at more than $1 billion, announced a reorganization of its holdings Wednesday aimed at segregating its privately held operating companies from its...

Readers of a recent Acorn Fund quarterly report were greeted with the happy news that Ralph Wanger and Leah Zell had tied the knot. Wanger runs the Chicago-based mutual fund....

Stock prices of major contractors in the U.S. space shuttle program fell in a rising market Monday, but Wall Street analysts were uncertain of the long-term effects of the fiery...

Two former Downstate residents who have disappeared have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of defrauding more than 300 investors of more than $6.5 million through the...