Delroy Alexander

Kenneth Williams II of Chicago's Kroeschell Inc. knows he's on a steep learning curve, but the potential rewards could make the effort worthwhile. As vice president of business development at...

When Lisa McCarthy started No. 9 Design, her South Loop-based graphic design firm, in 1989, she hoped to build a five-person shop. But hiring employees actually turned out to be...

Day labor agencies are coming under a spotlight. Such agencies supply a flexible workforce for Illinois' manufacturing base, at relatively little expense. The work is often attractive to people looking...

Sadruddin Noorani could be a poster boy for the American Dream. Since arriving from Pakistan 21 years ago, the entrepreneur has worked his way up from a bus boy in...

Lloyd Falconer has seen his small firm's health-care costs rise by double digits annually the past few years. Falconer is the secretary and treasurer of his family-owned job shop, Seward...

Los Angeles entrepreneur Hector Barreto is thinking small on a big scale. He has given up running his own $3 million-a-year financial services firm for a chance to help millions...

Americans couldn't get enough of foreign goods last year. And their appetite shows no sign of abating anytime soon. For the first quarter, the deficit widened slightly to $33 billion,...