Business & Money

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• Prep for the high school equivalency exam and the U.S. citizenship test.

ChiBizHub connects new and existing Chicago businesses to business resource providers. 

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

Full text coverage of The Economist from January 4, 1992 (Vol. 322, no. 7740) - present.

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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.)

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.

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.

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.

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

Search a wide variety of business content, from newspapers, magazines and journals, to company and industry reports, to eBooks and videos.

Offers entrepreneurs over 700 actual business plans to use as models in developing their own.

Find encyclopedia articles in a variety of subject areas from more than two hundred reference titles.

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.

Search a wide variety of business content, from newspapers, magazines and journals, to company and industry reports, to eBooks and videos.

Analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and markets.

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.

As part of a state grant, all Illinois residents now have free access to select EBSCO databases. No log-in or library card is required for access.

Patrons can now access The New York Times while inside the library at: www.nytimes.com

• You will be prompted to create an account if you are a new user. Existing users will log in with their credentials. (You do not need to create a new NYT account if you already have one.)

Patrons outside the library can access The New York Times by redeeming a code.

• Click the link, then enter your library card number and PIN
• Click "REDEEM" (this code will expire in 24 hours, and you will need to retrieve a new code to continue use)
• You will be prompted to create an account if you are a new user. Existing users will log in with their credentials. (You do not need to create a new NYT account if you already have one.)

Enjoy unlimited access to News, plus Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter, and The Athletic. View online or download the app.

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.

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