Genevieve Buck

It's been exactly eight weeks and a day since Chicago's City Council granted landmark status to the Art Deco McGraw-Hill Building at 520 N. Michigan Ave. And there's still no...

When Sportmart Inc. founder Larry Hochberg introduced his first sporting goods superstore, the company was a leader--the place countless Chicagoans went to find balls, bats, skis, shoes, jerseys and sweats,...

Michael Quinlan, chief executive of McDonald's Corp., has been sounding the same theme in his annual messages to shareholders for most of the 1990s: The hamburger chain would continue to...

It's not considered one of the city's finest architectural gems--or even among the top tier of Chicago landmarks. But the 1920s-era McGraw-Hill building at 520 N. Michigan Ave. may very...

Carl Celestino and Dennis Meehan were comfortably ensconced in easy chairs in the coat department of Marshall Field's in Water Tower Place, passing judgment on the leather jackets being paraded...

Last February, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., this country's fourth-largest company and the world's biggest retailing colossus with annual sales of $94 billion, found itself humiliated. After 99 consecutive quarters of sales...

Independent drugstore owners rejoiced Thursday after a federal judge in Chicago rejected a proposed $408.9 million settlement from pharmaceutical manufacturers accused in a class-action suit of unfair pricing. U.S. District...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. chief executive Arthur Martinez formally put Sears' half interest in the Prodigy on-line service up for sale Wednesday. The announcement, made to analysts in New York,...

Those who tout the scenario of a soft landing say the economy is like a massive dirigible, settling slowly to Earth, "downsizing" a relatively small number of bystanders in its...

Talk that Sears, Roebuck and Co. and International Business Machines Corp. will sell Prodigy Services Co. swirled through the business community Monday. The rumors were fueled by a Wall Street...