Otto Robert Nottelmann, who helped guide East Chicago-based Inland Steel Co. subsidiaries through the industry's turbulent 1980s, died Saturday. A native of Oak Park, Ill., and a resident of Oak Brook ...

A third of the nation’s steel and nearly two-thirds of its highly profitable sheet and strip is consumed within 250 miles of Chicago, but only a fourth of U.S. steel is produced in the area. Aware of ...

In 1976, he started working at the steel mill on Indiana Harbor on Lake Michigan, now known as Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Works. He clocked in at the mill until 2006. "When I hired in, there were ...

Bristling at his reputation as a steel-industry maverick, Joseph L. Block recently protested that “we just do what everybody else does, but we try to do it better.” When Block, 65, steps down this ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was the Chicago skyline beloved around the world. It took thousands of talented people, millions of work hours, the vision of architects, and the skills of ...