Social media marketing types flocked to Alterian’s “Engaging Times Summit” in Chicago to compare notes and learn new ways to reach consumers.

Joseph Smith, the founder of JAS Financial Services LLC., provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions regarding financial planners.

Oshkosh Corp. is using ample cash from the inflow of defense awards to aggressively pay off the debt it took on in an acquisition spree.

Chicago hotels see more demand for rooms, but so far aren’t able to raise daily room rates.

Saving Techniques

How are your fellow Chicagoans saving money? Jeniece Pettitt talked to people in Daley Plaza to find out.

Present-day and next-generation investment industry leaders debated future of funds at the Kellogg School of Management’s private equity and venture capital conference in Chicago, with the conversation returning to value creation.

Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks to Chicago audience Feb. 9. Photo by Chris Guillen

It was Tuesday evening in Chicago, and though you may have watched him co-host CNBC’s Squawk Box from New York that same morning, there was Andrew Ross Sorkin giving a talk about Wall Street and his new book, “Too [...]

Four of the city’s real estate all-stars—an appraiser, investor, academic  and analyst—spent a little over two hours bemoaning the industry’s bleak 2010 fate at Thursday’s Chicago Association of Realtors Forecast. Then, they boiled their complicated, chart-heavy predictions into a bookmark-sized Letterman-esque top 10 list.

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BY MEGAN MOLLMANN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

New, single-family home sales beat analyst expectations and surged 9.6 percent in July from the previous month, the Census Bureau said Wednesday.

Sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of433,000 compared with the revised June rate of 395,000. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg LP forecasted [...]

By KELLEN M. HENRY and JORDAN MELNICK– MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius hosted a roundtable discussion about health care reform, announcing a $1.2 billion award of stimulus funds for electronic records at the Sinai Community Institute on Thursday. Listen below as [...]