You Choose What's News in Chicago

Windy Citizen lets you share and discover the best local news, events, photos and videos and read original reporting on Chicago people, places and issues.

How it works

Post a Chicago link. (No sign up required!)
Watch as people vote up, click on, and discuss it and our network writes about it.
The best links make the front page and are delivered via daily e-mail, rss, twitter and more.

News room activity feed

Jessica Johnston updated the blog post The Beauty of Chicago, Captured at Night 3 min 31 sec
Jessica Johnston created the blog post The Beauty of Chicago, Captured at Night 10 min 22 sec
commented on Blagojevich, The Interactive Timeline saying I'd just like to finish this 15 min 32 sec
bangpound commented on Pro-Israel protest pulls my heartstrings, leaves me conflicted saying "Hamas civilians?" Are you 54 min 48 sec
commented on Lawsuit fingers mobile content giant Thumbplay Inc. saying EFKum8 kgukunqipuow, 56 min 1 sec
bangpound commented on Pro-Israel protest pulls my heartstrings, leaves me conflicted saying "Hamas civilians?" Are you 56 min 25 sec
bangpound commented on Pro-Israel protest pulls my heartstrings, leaves me conflicted saying "Hamas civilians?" Are you 57 min 4 sec
Anna Tarkov created the blog post Mayor Daley is Disabling You 1 hour 24 min
Kate Shellnutt created the blog post Pro-Israel protest pulls my heartstrings, leaves me conflicted 1 hour 58 min

See all network activity

+ Submit

e-retail

Online sales bright spot in poor economy

Filed by Archi Sarkar on Jun 10, 2008 12:00 AM

In a sluggish economy where retailers in general are taking a beating, online retailers in Chicago and nationwide continue to make gains in both sales and consumer satisfaction.

According to a recent survey of 125 retailers by Forrester Research Inc. and a Shop.org study, online retail is expected to be a bright spot in the industry in 2008 with sales estimated to rise 17 percent this year to $204 billion from $169 billion in 2007.

READ MORE

Location: The Loop

Tags: online sales, e-retail, shopping,

Front Page

The Citizen's front page is a central place to discuss and share new and interesting Chicago links.

Citizen Blogs

The Citizen's Blog Network is a growing team of Chicago writers, photographers, pundits and assorted media makers who expand on the local topics, issues, places and interests featured on the front page.

This site Copyright 2008, Windy Citizen.com - All rights reserved. Content posted by users is dedicated to the public domain. Powered by Drupal 5.7. Hosted by Midphase.
Designed in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. Special thanks to these very helpful advisers.

Chicago ticket broker Vividseats.com has great Bruce Springsteen concert tickets and sports tickets like Cubs tickets and Bears tickets for all games!