Kathy Bergen

In an effort to chip away at the area's persistently high unemployment rate, Chicago and Cook County officials this week will formally launch a not-for-profit that will tailor job-training programs...

The biennial International Manufacturing Technology Show, historically the city's largest trade show, is seeing a boost in attendance as it opened at McCormick Place Monday morning. The massive exhibition, which...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel would gain greater control over regional efforts to win foreign business investment under recommendations in a Chicago Council on Global Affairs report to be released Monday....

Steven Koch, the prominent investment banker who will advise Mayor Rahm Emanuel on economic and fiscal issues as the city's new deputy mayor, isn't likely to find much low-hanging fruit...

Purdue University, which has one of the nation's premier engineering schools, sized up the former Michael Reese Hospital property for potential development as a technology center, but Tuesday told the...

Airline efforts to cut jet-fuel costs are translating into a much-needed financial injection into the jobs-hungry Rockford area. Woodward Inc., a maker of aircraft fuel system components, on Thursday announced...

Aerospace and energy firm Woodward Inc. will invest more than $200 million to build a new manufacturing plant and offices near Rockford, which it says will create 660 jobs over...

The announcements have become regular occurrences for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a prominent part of his strategy to be seen as steward of Chicago's economy: Yet another company plans to...

Rather than a zero-sum game of moving jobs from the suburbs to Chicago, Motorola Mobility's planned relocation from Libertyville to the Merchandise Mart next year has many upsides. For one...