James P. Miller

Monsanto Co., the biggest corporate booster of genetically altered food and a lightning rod for critics, is promising to back off from some controversial technologies and take bigger steps to...

It's official. Ernie and the Keebler elves have yielded to an all-cash $3.7 billion buyout bid from Snap, Crackle and Pop. Three months after Keebler Foods Co. put itself on...

More than a year after being ousted from the top job at Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp., Edward Burkhardt is launching a proxy fight that seeks to unseat the railroad's entire...

Has the stock market had it? Is the economy giving out? After a wild ride on Wall Street, and the promise of more turmoil ahead, investors need answers to some...

She can barely speak, but Christy McKinney would like to warn nearly a million people still driving on recalled Firestone tires. She lies nearly motionless in a downtown Chicago hospital,...

Just hours after Commonwealth Edison's boss boasted about improved performance this summer, an explosion in a transformer vault knocked out power to three downtown buildings and created a scene reminiscent...

Things may be getting a little . . . strained . . . in the baby food business. Concerned about a potential duopoly in the already concentrated industry, federal antitrust...

Alan Greenspan's coveted soft landing will get an important early fly-by this week. With several major economic reports on tap and a speech by the powerful Federal Reserve chairman set...

One day after a federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp., some Chicago-area business leaders were expressing concern about the ruling's impact. Even as company Chairman Bill Gates vowed...