Julie Wernau

Your electric rates are going up but not until 2015.That year, electric bills are set to be about $130 a year more than now, according to the results of annual...

Residential electricity prices are expected to spike by more than 10 percent beginning in 2015, with consumers paying between $150 and $330 a year more than this year, as coal...

Peoples Gas is digging up Chicago streets and replacing rusty, leak-prone pipes with plastic pipes that can deliver natural gas faster, safer and more efficiently. "There's pipe that went in...

Nebraska-based Tenaska originally proposed turning Illinois' high-sulfur coal into gas to power a $3.5 billion electric generating plant in downstate Taylorville. That proposal had been stalled in various forms at...

Chicago's apparel makers have all but disappeared. And the Apparel Center — the city's central showroom for fashion designs for the last 35 years — evicts its last tenants this...

Shares of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions plunged 36 percent Friday on news that earnings tumbled, the company's chairman had been ousted, three directors had quit, and the chief financial officer will...

Acquity Group, a digital marketing company founded in Chicago, raised $30 million Friday in an initial public offering. The IPO was priced at $6 per share, below the projected $8...

Shares of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions plunged 35 percent Friday on news that the company's chairman had been ousted and three directors and the company's CFO have left the company. The...

As Volkswagen would say, on the road of life, there are passengers and there are drivers. True. But its getting a heck of a lot more expensive to be a...