Charles Storch

Union employees at Zenith Electronics Corp.`s television set assembly plant in Springfield, Mo., could be asked to vote as early as next Sunday on cost-cutting measures sought by Zenith, a...

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will stop supplying color television sets to General Electric Co. for sale in the United States, a move that could affect employment at a Matsushita final...

The staff cutbacks that have been sweeping through CBS Inc. are now reaching WBBM-TV (Channel 2) in Chicago, with the station planning to reduce its employment by about 25 positions,...

Speculation about a Walt Disney Co.-developed theme park in Chicago continued to drift between fact and Fantasyland, as Gov. James Thompson distanced his efforts to bring a Disney park here...

A spokesman for Walt Disney Productions threw cold water Thursday on speculation about a Disney theme park being built on the Near West Side. ''We have no plans whatsoever for...

A trustee of WTTW (Channel 11) said Wednesday that there have been 15 or 20 companies, groups and individuals that have expressed interest in acquiring Chicago magazine. The trustee, Robert...

Cineplex Odeon Corp., new owner of the Plitt motion picture theater circuit, offered a coming attraction Thursday of a theater construction and refurbishing plan that will add 54 screens and...

SFN Companies Inc. said Thursday it agreed to sell its Silver Burdett elementary/high school textbook publishing unit for about $125 million in cash to Gulf & Western Industries Inc. John...

Mexican publisher Mario Vazquez Rana, trying to dispel concerns about his planned acquisition of the financially troubled United Press International news service, says that he thinks as a ''First Worlder''...

Warner Communications Inc. is at an impasse with its largest stockholder, Chris-Craft Industries Inc., leading to speculation of a sale of Warner assets or the whole company. Chris-Craft, which owns...