Merrill Goozner

Tuesday`s upbeat economic reports on the falling trade deficit and rising rate of factory utilization reflect the surge in manufacturing output and employment that has swept the Midwest in recent...

The economic toll from the telephone meltdown continued to climb Thursday for west suburban businesses amid promises from Illinois Bell that the bulk of their service would be restored by...

Chicago White Sox owners were given a lease agreement for a new stadium Tuesday during a two-hour meeting with Illinois Sports Facilities Authority representatives in the office of Gov. James...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a green light to full-scale federal taxation of state and municipal bonds. Local governments immediately raised the specter of higher real estate taxes....

Chicago: Race, Class and the Response to Urban Decline By Gregory D. Squires, Larry Bennett, Kathleen McCourt and Philip Nyden Temple University Press, 272 pages, $29.95 Look beyond this city`s...

Mayor Harold Washington`s unfinished agenda of budget restraint, political reform and economic revival will suffer rejection and temporary setbacks without his strong political presence, observers predicted Thursday. While the day-to-day...

The sultans of risk have rediscovered the comforts of safe, conservative, high-quality investments that only weeks ago seemed appropriate only for widows and orphans. As they try to make sense...

After giving a speech in Phoenix two years ago, James F. Bere beamed as two well-dressed women approached and asked to meet the chairman of Borg-Warner Corp. ''I thought, isn`t...

The city Thursday hired a survey firm to find out whether Chicago residents favor night games at Wrigley Field, though some neighborhood leaders claim the results will be meaningless. ''What...

Planning officials here and across the country are up in arms over an Office of Management and Budget proposal to eliminate about 30 questions from the 1990 census. The constitutionally...