ChicagoBusiness.com is a local business portal founded by Crain Communications Inc., publisher of more than 25 special interest publications, including Crain's Chicago Business — the nation's pre-eminent regional business newspaper.

ChicagoBusiness.com takes the Crain's Chicago Business brand-known for its insight, analysis and high journalistic standards and extends it to the Internet. But it provides more than just an electronic version of this week's newspaper and ten years of back issues. ChicagoBusiness.com is a portal that offers daily local business news, plus links to public records and hundreds of local and national business-oriented sites. As a result, it reaches a large business audience-thousands of established and up-and-coming executives visit ChicagoBusiness.com every day looking for the information they need to do business in Chicago.