Business Directories

• AT&T 800 Directory 
• Business Resource Center 
• Chamber of Commerce Directory
• Original Yellow Page National Directory
• Online International Business Information Directory
• Dunn & Bradstreet 
• Lexis-Nexis - legal and business search tools
• SBA Hotlist - great set of business links from the SBA's web site
• Small & Home Based Business Links
• Web100, The - lists the largest U.S. and international corporations on the Web today
• Business.com - a business search engine and directory including company and industry profiles

Business Government

• BLS - the home page for the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Fedworld - information network that pulls together government web sites
• House Committee on Small Business
• Internal Revenue Service - the IRS home page
• SBA - the Small Business Administration's very useful web site
• SEC - the Securities & Exchange Commission
• SEC Edgar - the SEC's on-line database of electronic filings
• Social Security Administration
• US Business Advisor - pulls together government resources for business
• US Patent Office - home page of the patent office
• US Postal Service - home page of the postal service

News & Weather

• Chicago Tribune
• Chicago Sun-Times
• Daily Herald
• Crain's Chicago Business
• Weather.com - Chicago

 Business Magazines

• Business Week - excerpts from their weekly publication
• Economist - excerpts from the monthly publication
• Forbes Magazine - excerpts from current and past issues
• Fortune Magazine
• INC Magazine
• InfoWorld - the weekly computer technology magazine
• Money Magazine

Business Newspapers

• Bloomberg Business News - business and financial news
• Wall Street Journal - A fee service, but if you want to see the Journal right shortly after the markets close instead of waiting until the next morning, this is the ticket.

General Magazines

• Time Magazine
• Newsweek

General Newspapers

• New York Times
• USA Today
• Washington Post
• Washington Times
• Chicago Tribune
• Los Angeles Times

Networks

• ABC
• CBS
• CNN
• CNN Financial Network
• ESPN SportsZone
• MSNBC - the collaboration between Microsoft and NBC
• National Public Radio
• Public Broadcasting System
• TV Station Web Page Directory - directory of television stations from North America and around the world.

Yahoo-Reuters

• Top Stories - provides a listing of the days top news stories with an index to previous days news
• World - provides a world news roundup
• Business - Provides a listing of the days top business news stories with an index to the previous days news. Within the business category, the following subcategories are available.
• Financial - stock news
  • World - world business news
  • IPO - news on US initial public offerings
• Company - search for a company and obtain profile, news, stock quotes
• PR News - newswire covering PR data
• Biz Wire - news from the business wire
• Quotes - stock news and 20 minute delayed stock quotes
• Technology - an index of today's technology stories with a historical archive
• Politics - an index of today's political stories with a historical archive

Weather Services

• AccuWeather - fee based real time weather forecasting service
• Freese-Notis Weather Net - fee based service aimed at agriculture and commodity traders
• Intellicast - a joint service of the Microsoft Network and NBC
• NetCast - NetCast home page
• Weather.com - the Weather Channel homepage
• NOAA Weather Page - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's home page
• USA Today - national newspaper's weather page
• US Satellite Image - national weather satellite image provided by Purdue University