Personal Finance & Investing

Small Business Resources

Are you an entrepreneur or need help with your small business? Find tools for your business plan, licenses, marketing, and more.

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America's News: Personal Finances

Use from home Library Card Required  Current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide. Browse topics like budgeting, retairement planning, and stock market.

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Business Source Premier

Use from home Library Card Required  Thousands of articles from leading business publications. Search for topics like financial literacy, investment advice, retirement planning, real estate, and more.

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Consumer Reports: Money

Use from home Library Card Required  An online version of the magazine. Get the latest ratings, reviews, and buying advice on banking, credit, insurance, and personal finance.

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Consumers' Checkbook

Use from home Library Card Required  Compare Financial Services in the Chicago area. Find info on accountants, financial advisors, mortgage brokers, and more.

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Daily Herald Today's Edition

Use from home Library Card Required  View today's edition of the Daily Herald including Personal Finance, MarketPulse, and Suburban Business. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.

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Gale Presents Udemy

Use from home Library Card Required  Thousands of on-demand video courses taught by world-class instructors. Find popular courses on topics like financial literacy, financial planning, investing in stocks, and more.

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Illinois Public Record

Use from home Library Card Required  Database of public records including real estate transfers, new businesses, bankruptcies, and foreclosures. Perform basic background checks on individuals and businesses based in Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties.

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Legal Information Reference Center

Use from home Library Card Required  Navigate legal matters relating to money & financial planing. Find topics like credit repair, personal taxes, retirement, identity theft, and more.

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LinkedIn Learning

Use from home Library Card Required  Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts. Learn about topics like managing personal finance, accounting software, basics of stocks, investments, and more.

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The New York Times

Redeem 1 day of subscription access. Read the business section of the NYT for news about stock markets, mutual funds, and the NYT DealBook. Users will need to create a free account and access subscription through the link sent to your email.

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Newspaper Source Plus

Use from home Library Card Required  Cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of regional, national, and international newspapers. Search for articles about hedge funds, capital losses, market sentiment, stock prices, and more.

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Points of View Reference Center

Use from home Library Card Required  A balance of materials from all viewpoints about controversial issuses including topics like credit card rates, unicersal basic income, capital gains tax, bitcoin, and more.

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Reference Solutions

Use from home Library Card Required  Find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.

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Value Line

Use from home Library Card Required  Investment advice on the stock market industries and the economy. Search in-depth data on more than 6,000 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, 200,000 options and other securities.

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Weiss Financial Ratings

Use from home Library Card Required  Search unbiased ratings of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. Also includes the Medigap Insurance Tool for insurance planning.

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