Melita M. Garza

John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the son of a Hartford, Conn., merchant, was the most heralded financier of his time. The man whose name became synonymous with Wall Street got his...

Plenty of women are filling the management pipelines at Chicago's 50 biggest companies, but they aren't breaking into the ranks of executive officers and top earners quickly enough. That's the...

Exelon Corp. executives plan to meet with Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a bid to get him to change his mind about his opposition to a proposed Downstate electricity rate hike....

Commonwealth Edison Co. on Tuesday began what could be a rough battle to win approval for its controversial plan to acquire Illinois Power Co. and win a long-term rate increase....

In an apparent about-face, the advisory staff for the Illinois Commerce Commission sliced in half the amount of money that it said Peoples Gas Co. should be required to refund...

It will take weeks, if not months, to determine the cause of the widespread North American power outage, which plunged 50 million people from Michigan to Manhattan into darkness, officials...

Amid furious finger-pointing over who's to blame for the nation's largest blackout ever, there is one cause on which all parties seem to agree: The U.S. power grid is outmoded,...

Motorists are staying close to home. Some are even hanging up their keys. Summer is supposed to bring the year's heaviest driving, but gasoline demand has declined for the first...