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Brainfuse: Job Seekers and Adult Learners Learning
ChiBizHub
ChiBizHub connects new and existing Chicago businesses to business resource providers.
Consumer Reports Magazine & Journal
Reviews, ratings, recommendations, and buying advice for thousands of products and services.
GotResumeBuilder.com
Set up a GotResumeBuilder account to use this quick and convenient resume builder. Chicago Public Library cardholders can upgrade their account to premium and download or print their resume.
LinkedIn Learning Learning
Take online video courses to learn business, software, technology and design skills. Videos are available in multiple languages. (App users: After opening the app, click Sign In. When asked for your email, enter chipublib in all lowercase letters and click Continue. Then log in with your library card and PIN.)
Small Business Source
Full text of many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to understand and address a wide variety of small business topics. Includes business videos,
case studies, help and advice, a start-up kit, and tips for writing business plans.
Directories & Public Records
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Search public records by name or address. Covers a wide variety of records from select Illinois counties: real estate transactions, business licenses, evictions, arrests, etc.
Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) Business Directory
Listings for 59 million U.S. business locations and 310 million consumers. Search businesses by name, location, industry and size; search consumers by location, estimated income, interests and shopping habits.
Illinois Public Records
Create lists of new homeowners, new businesses, recent foreclosures, etc. based on public records from select Illinois counties.
ProQuest One Business Business Directory eBook
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Encyclopedias & Handbooks
Business Plans Handbooks
Offers entrepreneurs over 700 actual business plans to use as models in developing their own.
Gale eBooks eBook Encyclopedia
Find encyclopedia articles in a variety of subject areas from more than two hundred reference titles.
Industry Overviews
Find overviews, including history, current conditions and leading firms, for over a thousand industries from The Encyclopedia of American Industries, The Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries and The Encyclopedia of Global Industries.
ProQuest One Business Business Directory eBook
Search a wide variety of business content, from newspapers, magazines and journals, to company and industry reports, to eBooks and videos.
Investing
Morningstar
Analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and markets.
Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage
Company directory and financial and investment information from numerous Standard & Poor’s publications, including the Bond Guide, Industry Surveys, Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Security Dealers of North America and Stock Reports.
Newspapers, Magazines & Journals
ProQuest Newspapers (Global Newsstream) Newspaper
Articles from hundreds of newspapers and newsfeeds from around the world, including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail (Canada), The Times (London), The Times of India and Daily Yomiuri (Japan).Find additional newspapers in America's News.
Wall Street Journal Newspaper
Articles from the nation’s financial newspaper of record back to 1984.