Ellen Jean Hirst

Groupon shareholders who attended the company's annual meeting Tuesday met animal rights activists at the door who were pressuring the daily deals company to stop allowing circuses and zoos with...

Good reviews on Yelp can mean thousands of dollars in gained revenue. Bad ones can mean customers pass you by. About 79 percent of the 57 million reviews on Yelp...

The effort to fill a vacant Dominick's on the city's South Side is not getting the attention that a local alderman thinks it deserves. The corporate parent of the only...

Gogo Inc., a provider of aircraft Internet and communications services, reported record quarterly revenue on Monday, rebuilding investor confidence after AT&T; announced last month that it will join the in-flight...

Groupon's ongoing effort to remake itself as an e-commerce retailer is a smart move, but the company has a way to go to prove its strategy, analysts said. Shares in...

Groupon shares tumbled on Wednesday, falling almost 21 percent, as investors reacted to the Chicago-based online deals company's report a day earlier of a wider first-quarter loss. Groupon said it...

Craft breweries are booming locally, and so are the businesses that supply them with everything from hops to honey, to tap systems and real estate. Ike Orcutt, co-owner of BuckleDown...

PETA says it will attend Groupon's annual meeting on May 20 to begin the battle to pressure the daily deals site to stop doing business with circuses and zoos with...

The Lagunitas Brewing Co. has officially wet its whistle bottling beer in Chicago. The Petaluma, Calif.-based company fired up its bottling operation in Douglas Park for the first time Friday...

A divisional vice president at Groupon has left the company after less than a year to hop back into the growing Midwest startup scene. David Kerr was Groupon’s vice president...