Crain's Chicago Business

A Virginia advertising company has sued the Chicago Tribune, claiming that a feature of the newspaper's new job listings service infringes on a patent it has held for nearly a decade.

Motorola is resuming efforts to split the electronics manufacturer into two publicly traded companies.

US Cellular, struggling to hold onto wireless subscribers and profits in the face of pressure from larger rivals, is seeking federal grant money in a bid to expand its network....

By naming Chicago Alderman Manuel Flores the new chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, Gov. Pat Quinn (D) has met expectations that he would remake the state's utility regulatory agency into a pro-consumer body.

Ambitious state and local plans to improve high-speed Internet access with federal stimulus dollars are running into staunch opposition from AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and other private Internet providers.

A dozen groups pursuing new-media ventures in Chicago received a combined $500,000 from the Community News Matters program, a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Verizon Wireless plans to roll out a lightning-fast data network next year in Chicago, part of a continued push to grab more money from customers who want the Internet anywhere, anytime.

Tribune Co.'s financial picture deteriorated even more this year as declining advertising sales continued to hammer the newspaper industry. The company is much less profitable than before its bankruptcy filing in December and is burning through cash.

Tribune Co. has finalized a deal to sell the Chicago Cubs to a bidding group led by bond salesman Thomas Ricketts. The deal needs to be approved by 75% of Major League Baseball team owners as well as creditors and the Delaware judge overseeing Tribune's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.

Chicago is angling for about $100 million in federal stimulus money to build a high-speed Internet network that would reach some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. City officials have seized on the stimulus program as a second chance to bring broadband service to underserved areas like the South Side, after a more ambitious proposal to blanket the city with a wireless Internet signal fizzled in 2007.