Susan Chandler

What's that sound of clip-clopping on Michigan Avenue? Not carriage horses ferrying tourists to-and-fro. Not a herd of runaway deer from the grounds surrounding Argonne National Laboratory. It's the sound...

Chicago designer Jane Hamill has a nice little business. Lincoln Park women in their 20s and 30s are snapping up Hamill's strappy cocktail dresses, clingy tops and fringed-hem Capri pants,...

Things could hardly be going better for discounters. Their sales and profits are climbing steadily as shoppers snap up the increasingly stylish merchandise being offered by Target Corp., Kmart Corp....

When Sears, Roebuck and Co. thinks about the business side of the Internet, the Hoffman Estates-based retailer thinks big: one giant Internet exchange where retailers around the world buy and...

It's gotta be the ... zaibatsu? Michael Jordan has agreed to promote Divine Interventures, a Lisle-based company that invests in on-line businesses and describes itself as an Internet zaibatsu, a...

It's easy to consider Crown Books an also-ran in the bookstore wars. Once an industry innovator by offering discounts on every book sold, Crown became the victim of a bitter...

Giorgio Armani, the Milan, Italy-based maker of upscale men's and women's apparel, is moving its Chicago boutique from Oak Street to North Michigan Avenue, joining a bevy of Italian luxury...

J.C. Penney Co. is struggling to reinvent itself. So is Sears, Roebuck and Co. Nordstrom Inc. is way ahead of them both. The Seattle-based chain has spent the past 18...

Saks Inc., the struggling department store operator, is suffering, but, so far, its Carson Pirie Scott unit isn't feeling the pain. Saks, formerly known as Proffitt's Inc., acquired Carsons in...

If a man wants to wear jeans and running shoes to the office, it's fine by us. If he wants to wear an Armani suit and clunky Italian shoes, that's...