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New choices in gas suppliers and anticipation of a mild winter are fueling the feeling among small-business operators in Chicago that they will be unaffected by recent jumps in natural [...]

When James Mitsch, a principal with Chicago-based Vortex Systems International LLC, plans his next meeting with one of his Fortune 500 customers, chances are it'll be in a room rented [...]

It used to be that if you were looking to furnish a small office, your choices were limited to your local office supply store's ready-to-assemble selection. But the office furniture [...]

If an employer covers the health care costs of workers' children, should it cover those of employees' other dependents, Fido and Kitty? Many pet lovers think so, and some of [...]

JUDY SUTTON When Bill Powell, the Chicago-based Midwest advertising manager for Home Theater magazine, travels to Malibu, Calif., for sales meetings several times a year, he always stays at Casa [...]

JUDY SUTTON If any of the doomsday predictions come true, on Jan. 1, 2000, computer systems will go haywire. Files will be deleted, errors will occur, billing systems will be [...]

Many meetings for West Side firms seeking contracts Keith Marshall's dry cleaning business in the West Side Austin neighborhood is just six blocks from West Suburban Hospital. Yet Mr. Marshall [...]

When Timothy Johnson agreed to manage a small strip mall in Hoffman Estates for his sister-in-law last year, he never dreamed that one of his biggest headaches would be snow [...]

Varied job duties as important as benefits, paycheck Kathleen Ineman says that it seems like just yesterday that the nation was in a recession, jobs were scarce and competition for [...]

Total cost of '98 biz trips to rise at about inflation rate Business travel will be only slightly more expensive in 1998 than it is now, but companies renegotiating car [...]

It's shop-till-you-drop time for local wireless phone service users. The introduction of Sprint PCS, a subsidiary of Kansas-based Sprint Corp., to the Chicago market earlier this year brings the number [...]

Think the term ``corporate tree-hugger'' sounds like an oxymoron? If you check out the greenery surrounding some downtown office buildings and suburban corporate parks, you may have second thoughts. Some [...]

First, there were the warnings -- technology experts urging companies to initiate year 2000 computer upgrade efforts before it was too late. Then came the doomsday forecasts for businesses that [...]