Business & Money

Brainfuse: Job Seekers and Adult Learners

• Get personal feedback on your resume within 24 hours from an online writing coach.
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Consumer Reports Magazine & Journal

Reviews, ratings, recommendations, and buying advice for thousands of products and services.

Check Illinois

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.

Hoover’s Company Profiles Business Directory

Brief information on more than 40,000 public and private companies. Find information on a company’s location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers and more.

Illinois Public Records

Create lists of new homeowners, new businesses, recent foreclosures, etc. based on public records from select Illinois counties.

ReferenceUSA Business Directory

Listings for 24 million U.S. business locations and 262 million consumers. Search businesses by name, location, industry and size; search consumers by location, estimated income, interests and shopping habits.

Business Plans Handbooks

Offers entrepreneurs over 400 actual business plans to use as models in developing their own.

Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook Encyclopedia

More than a hundred reference titles in a variety of areas: business and careers, education, fashion, food, film and television, geography, history, law and government, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

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.

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.

Only available at Chicago Public Library

ABI/INFORM Magazine & Journal

Articles from local business magazines, trade or industry magazines, and scholarly journals. Crain's Chicago Business and the Wall Street Journal are among the 3,000 titles available.

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). Coverage varies by title, with full text for some titles available back to the 1980s.

Wall Street Journal Newspaper

Articles from the nation’s financial newspaper of record back to 1984.