Barron's is a leading source of financial news, providing in-depth analysis and commentary on stocks, investments and markets.

Coverage and analysis of the Chicago area business community.

Gale offers small business resources, market research, and planning tools to support entrepreneurs at every stage of the business lifecycle.

Gale Business: Insights delivers international company and industry intelligence including detailed profiles, news, case studies, scholarly articles, and more.

Leads prospective entrepreneurs of all experience levels through a step-by-step process to build business plans and other documents essential for gaining access to capital and growing enterprises.

Available 24/7, Gale Courses provides more than 360 six-week long, online programs taught by college instructors.

Mapping and market research tool featuring demographics data, market research and directory information on 24 million businesses and 206 million residents.

The Gale Directory Library collects directories on companies, publishers, and associations, with search and export tools useful to generating mailing lists, analyzing trends, and more.

Navigate legal matters of all kinds with reliable “how-to” information and thousands of federal, multi-state and state-specific legal forms.

Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

LinkedIn Learning offers video tutorials on business, creative, and technology topics.

Mergent Archives collects over a century's worth of global corporate and industry related documents, with reports covering more than 100 countries and industries.

Mergent Intellect features information on both public and private companies worldwide, including business data, industry news, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles, a job search database, and more.

Morningstar offers real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds.

NetAdvantage, by Standard and Poor's, provides information on companies, industries, the stock market, the economy, and long- and short-term prospects for equities, bonds, funds and industries.

Record Information Services provides Illinois public record data and marketing lists in a searchable database​.

Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) offers access to comprehensive, verified business and consumer listings.

Access the top consumer small business reference books, hundreds of full-text magazines and “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide range of small business topics.