John N. Maclean

When Standard & Poor's affirmed Commonwealth Edison's BBB debt rating before Thanksgiving, it gave the struggling utility nothing to be happy about this holiday season. The rating, S&P said, reflects...

Wall Street continued a broad correction Monday sparked by a sharp drop in the Japanese market and fears in the U.S. of higher interest rates and overvalued stocks. The day...

Xerox Corp. created a sensation at a printing industry exhibition at McCormick Place Monday, promising to deliver a future for photography free of chemicals or silver compounds, which increasingly are...

A shareholder resolution concerning Amoco Corp. and other firms doing business in Burma sets in relief a constant moral and economic question facing shareholders, corporations and people of conscience. When...

The electronic superhighway led to Wall Street Wednesday, sending shares of cable, telephone and entertainment firms surging in the wake of Bell Atlantic's breakthrough announcement of a merger with cable-giant...

Michael Wilson, Canada's lame-duck minister of international trade, took aim Wednesday at Ross Perot for what he called simplistic criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement and said supporters...

Inland Steel Co. Tuesday agreed to pay a $3.5 million civil fine and commit to an estimated $51 million in cleanup projects at its Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago...

When a Texas-based coalition wanted to dramatize its opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, they put together a video alleging that a Northfield-based chemical company was dumping toxic...

When Denise Kotowicz, president of Products for Power in Addison, began investigating the Mexican market for automobile catalytic converters, she had trouble getting a telephone call through to send a...

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. said Thursday it will close its historic Lakeside Press at 23rd Street and King Drive, where it prints Sears' Big Book catalog, eliminating 660 full-time...