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Jul 31, 2021
As the delta variant of COVID-19 has cases rising, Chicago restaurants and bars are switching to serving only vaccinated people or requiring masks.
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Jul 30, 2021
The Walt Disney Company has joined other large companies in requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Jul 30, 2021
Morton Salt, recently purchased by a California investment firm, laid off 120 employees at its Chicago headquarters this week, reducing its staff by 40%
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Jul 30, 2021
Walmart, the nation's largest retailer and private employer, is reversing its mask policy and will require all its workers including vaccinated one in areas with high infection rates to wear masks.
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Jul 30, 2021
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week advising everyone to wear masks indoors in places where COVID-19 cases are rising left some Chicago-area businesses wondering whether they would soon be back in the position of asking customers to mask up. Some already require them.
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Jul 30, 2021
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this week advising everyone to wear masks indoors in places where COVID-19 cases are rising quickly left some Chicago-area businesses wondering whether they would soon be back in the position of asking customers to mask up.
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Jul 30, 2021
A three-bedroom, one-story mid-century modern-style house in Glencoe that was designed by the firm Keck & Keck was listed on July 28 for $750,000.
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Jul 30, 2021
Here's another variation on the fraud entangling the Illinois Department of Employment Security: account hijacking, in which people's jobless benefits are being rerouted to someone else's bank.
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Jul 30, 2021
So far, there has been no public talk of relocating one of the world's largest music festivals from its iconic downtown Chicago location.
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Jul 30, 2021
Some clinics estimate they are up to 75% busier than they were before the pandemic.
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Jul 29, 2021
The state of Illinois on Thursday published the list of winners of 55 new marijuana retail store licenses — though a judge has ordered that the licenses can't be awarded until he rules on a lawsuit challenging to the process.
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Jul 29, 2021
The city of Chicago reached settlements worth more than $1.1 million with Mondelez and a Burger King franchisee for alleged violations of its paid sick leave ordinance.
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Jul 29, 2021
Robinhood has already changed how people trade stocks and who's doing it. Now its sights are on the rest of the financial industry.
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Jul 29, 2021
At least four chains of Chicago community health centers, which collectively serve about 80,000 low-income patients, will require their workers to get COVID-19 vaccines, they announced Thursday.
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Jul 29, 2021
Chicago cannabis dispensaries are stocking up for an expected major sales boost during the four-day Lollapalooza music festival this week in Grant Park, the first since recreational marijuana was legalized in Illinois.
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Jul 29, 2021
Sunnyside dispensary on North Clark Street in River North is the closest marijuana shop to the Lollapalooza music festival.
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Jul 29, 2021
The 11-room Florsheim mansion on the Gold Coast, which was designed by architect Andrew N. Rebori and later modified by architect Bertrand Goldberg, sold on Wednesday for $1.25 million.
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Jul 29, 2021
Rising ride-share prices have left many riders wondering: when will prices go back down?
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Jul 29, 2021
Rising rideshare prices have left many riders wondering: when will prices go back down?
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Jul 28, 2021
As clean energy bill talks stall, both Exelon and some lawmakers claim they're trying to protect jobs at the plants.
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Jul 28, 2021
The spread of the COVID-19 delta variant is raising infections, leading some companies and governments to require vaccinations and raising concerns about the U.S. economic recovery.But on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell injected a note of reassurance, suggesting that the delta variant poses little threat to the economy, at least so far.
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Jul 28, 2021
The number of applicants qualified for the upcoming lottery for new marijuana store licenses in Illinois jumped to 626 as a result of a rescoring of their applications and lowering the qualifying score, officials announced.
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Jul 28, 2021
Passengers on American Airlines has been dogged by flight delays this summer, and now flight attendants and pilots say the airline is failing to secure hotel rooms, sometimes forcing employees to sleep in airports.
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Jul 28, 2021
The Metra board of directors has approved a $28.2 million contract to build the new Auburn Park Station on the Rock Island Line in the Auburn Gresham community on the South Side of Chicago.
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Jul 28, 2021
Akyumen Industries Corp., the company that wanted to bring smart device manufacturing to Gary, defaulted on the purchase of the Genesis Convention Center, according to city officials.
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Jul 28, 2021
Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened in an attempt to fight the spreading Delta variant.
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Jul 28, 2021
McDonald's expects to have nearly all of its roughly 14,000 U.S. restaurants open for indoor dining by Labor Day, barring a resurgence in COVID-19 cases.
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Jul 28, 2021
Theaster Gates has spent years cultivating the Grand Crossing neighborhood with development and projects to beautify and connect the community with the arts. He's hoping all his plans will come together in activation by 2025.
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Jul 28, 2021
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is sounding the alarm about a Hoffman Estates imaging facility, urging patients who got mammograms there to get second opinions.
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Jul 28, 2021
Boeing reported its first quarterly profit since 2019 and revenue topped expectations as the giant aircraft maker tries to dig out from the most difficult stretch in its history.
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Jul 27, 2021
Sozo Illinois dropped its lawsuit challenging the cannabis business licensing process in Illinois, clearing the way for lotteries to award the licenses beginning Thursday.
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Jul 27, 2021
It is hardly the official federal minimum wage — at $7.25, that level hasn't been raised since 2009 — but for many lower-skilled workers, $15 an hour has increasingly become a reality. Now, many staffing companies say $15 an hour is the level that many businesses must pay to fill their jobs.
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Jul 27, 2021
The warehouse, called Exchange 55, is a symbol of environmental racism in a city where people of color bear the brunt of industry, protesters said.
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Jul 27, 2021
Federal legal guidance out suggests the law is on the side of employers, but employment lawyers believe many businesses will want to meet hesitant workers half-way.
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Jul 27, 2021
If the law firm completes the deal, it will be one of the largest office leases in downtown Chicago in decades.
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Jul 27, 2021
Millions nationwide have passport applications or renewals caught in limbo by increasingly lengthy processing delays.
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Jul 27, 2021
Late this year, Amazon plans to open a 500,000-square-foot sortation center at 3940 Lakeside Drive, where workers will help improve the efficiency of delivering goods to customers.
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Jul 27, 2021
A Bethesda, MD, home that once belonged to Mike Tyson has sold, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. The deal closed for $4,575,000 on July 20.
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Jul 27, 2021
The move make sense since the talk show, produced by Walt Disney Television, and Channel 7 share a parent company.
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Jul 27, 2021
Former Chicago Bulls forward Jabari Parker sold his three-bedroom town home in the Fulton River District's Kinzie Park development on Monday for $1.6 million.
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Jul 27, 2021
As vaccinations continue to roll out and with the mask mandate lifted, a number of gyms are seeing an influx of new and returning members. But not every gym is bouncing back.
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Jul 27, 2021
Chicago can again count two of its hospitals — Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center — among the top 20 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings released Tuesday.
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Jul 26, 2021
Hosted by Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini, the show was created to fill the slot previously occupied by Oprah Winfrey's Chicago-based talk show. No word yet on what will replace it.
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Jul 26, 2021
About 200 nurses at Community First Medical Center in Portage Park went on strike Monday, citing safe staffing as a top concern.
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Jul 26, 2021
Rush University Medical Center is mandating COVID-19 vaccines for its workers, joining at least a handful of other Chicago area hospitals that are also requiring the shots.
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Jul 26, 2021
A new incentive designed to boost affordable housing is poised to become law, and both developers and affordable advocates say it could be a key piece of the housing puzzle.
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Jul 23, 2021
Rivian, which pushed the production launch of its Illinois-built electric truck back to September, is already scouting locations for a second assembly plant down the road.
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Jul 23, 2021
Chicago pizza chain Lou Malnati's is moving its headquarters into a new facility in Buffalo Grove that will also house production and shipping for its mail-order pizza business.
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Jul 23, 2021
The building at 1924 W. Berenice, a two-flat that was converted on the show to single family home, was initially put on the market in July 2020.
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Jul 23, 2021
Rivian, which pushed the production launch of its Illinois-built electric truck back to September, is already scouting locations for a second assembly plant down the road.
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Jul 23, 2021
A six-bedroom, 7,204-square-foot Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion in Highland Park that once had a $12 million price tag sold on July 19 for $1.5 million.
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Jul 23, 2021
Lawmakers in Illinois are proposing a law that would require lab testing and labeling for any product containing delta-8-THC -- a hemp-based substance also know as "weed light."
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Jul 22, 2021
CBS 2 Chicago general manager Derek Dalton was ousted following a six-month investigation into an allegedly hostile organization and culture at CBS-owned TV stations.
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Jul 22, 2021
A new Illinois laws make it easier to get birth control and extend telehealth coverage beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jul 22, 2021
McDonald's is pledging to increase purchases from diverse-owned suppliers, raising it to 25% of annual spending across the fast food chain by 2025.
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Jul 22, 2021
As companies across the Chicago area welcome workers back to offices, they're often quietly labeling them as either vaccinated or unvaccinated, with different treatment for each group. It's a delicate issue — given many people's strong feelings about vaccination — that companies are handling differently.
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Jul 22, 2021
Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells. The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country — sometimes with financial incentives — to give its drivers the ability to unlock apartment-building doors themselves with a mobile device.
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Jul 22, 2021
The law would ban pedicabs after 6 p.m. in part of River North.
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Jul 22, 2021
Women in Illinois will soon be able to get hormonal birth control directly from pharmacists, without first visiting doctors, under a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Jul 22, 2021
Daimler AG's luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz says it is stepping up its transition to electric cars, doubling the planned share of sales by 2025 and sketching out a market scenario in which new car sales would "in essence" be fully electric by the end of the decade.
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Jul 22, 2021
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened economy.
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Jul 22, 2021
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both posted second-quarter profits on Thursday thanks to generous federal pandemic relief that covers most of their labor costs.
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Jul 22, 2021
The plan will bring "billions" in economic development to the community, an alderman said.
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Jul 21, 2021
The plan will bring "billions" in economic development to the community, an alderman said.
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Jul 21, 2021
Scabby, the giant inflatable protest rat threatened with extermination, has been spared by the National Labor Relations Board.
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Jul 21, 2021
Sports gambling would be allowed at venues including Wrigley Field and Soldier Field under the proposed measure.
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Jul 21, 2021
Back-to-school sales are expected to hit $32.5 billion nationwide, the strongest they've been in at least five years, according to an annual survey by Deloitte. Families who skipped buying items last year when kids attended school remotely are stocking up again for a return to the classroom.
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Jul 21, 2021
UI Health, which includes University of Illinois Hospital on the city's West Side, will require its employees to get COVID-19 vaccines, the system announced Wednesday.
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Jul 21, 2021
The mayor's plan turned into a fight over aldermanic prerogative, the tradition of aldermen largely controlling their wards.
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Jul 21, 2021
The leader of the world's fourth-largest automaker expects a global computer chip shortage that has cut vehicle production to last into next year.
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Jul 21, 2021
Air travel continues to pick up despite growing concern that spread of the COVID-19 delta variant could prompt a return to coronavirus restrictions, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said Wednesday.
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Jul 21, 2021
The seemingly endless streak of skyrocketing used-vehicle prices appears to be coming to a close.
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Jul 21, 2021
Americans would be freer to repair their broken cellphones, computers, videogame consoles and even tractors themselves or to use independent repair shops under changes being eyed by federal regulators that target manufacturer restrictions.
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Jul 21, 2021
Netflix reported its worst slowdown in subscriber growth in eight years as people emerge from their pandemic cocoons. So it's adding a new attraction to its marquee: Video games.
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Jul 21, 2021
Ford Motor Co. and a self-driving vehicle company it partly owns will join with the Lyft ride-hailing service to offer autonomous rides on the Lyft network.
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Jul 21, 2021
The mayor's plan turned into a fight over aldermanic prerogative, the tradition of aldermen largely controlling their wards.
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Jul 21, 2021
The mayor's plan turned into a fight over aldermanic prerogative, the tradition of aldermen largely controlling their wards.
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Jul 21, 2021
As vaccinations continue to roll out and with the mask mandate lifted, a number of gyms are seeing an influx of new and returning members.
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Jul 21, 2021
Former University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign head football coach Ron Turner and his wife, Wendy, sold their two-bedroom, 1,555-square-foot condominium in the Pinnacle building on the Near North Side for $780,000.
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Jul 21, 2021
Ulta Beauty is opening scaled-down beauty shops in more than 100 Target stores, including seven in the Chicago area, starting in August.
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Jul 20, 2021
A Michigan-based cannabis company has filed suit challenging Illinois' new law to award 185 long-awaited additional marijuana retail licenses, which could delay a license lottery set to begin July 29.
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Jul 20, 2021
Chicago-based upscale convenience store startup Foxtrot is doubling down on its expansion with plans to open 50 new stores within the next two years.
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Jul 20, 2021
Rivian, the startup EV truck maker, pushed its production launch back to September, in part because of the chip shortage roiling the auto industry.
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Jul 20, 2021
Amazon will stop testing workers for COVID-19 at its warehouses at the end of this month, citing the availability of vaccines and free testing.
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Jul 20, 2021
Back-to-school sales are expected to hit $32.5 billion nationwide, the strongest they've been in at least five years, according to an annual survey by Deloitte. Families who skipped buying items last year when kids attended school remotely are stocking up again for a return to the classroom.
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Jul 20, 2021
Back-to-school sales are expected to hit $32.5 billion nationwide, the strongest they've been in at least five years, according to an annual survey by Deloitte. Families who skipped buying items last year when kids attended school remotely are stocking up again for a return to the classroom.
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Jul 20, 2021
Chicago-based upscale convenience store startup Foxtrot is doubling down on its expansion with plans to open 50 new stores within the next two years.
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Jul 20, 2021
Chicago-based upscale convenience store startup Foxtrot is doubling down on its expansion with plans to open 50 new stores within the next two years.
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Jul 19, 2021
Resurgent pandemic worries knocked stocks lower from Wall Street to Tokyo on Monday, fueled by fears that a faster-spreading variant of the virus may upend the economy's strong recovery.
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Jul 19, 2021
Retired Chicago Cubs starting pitcher and Marquee Sports Network analyst Ryan Dempster paid $2.125 million to buy a six-bedroom French Provincial-style mansion in Wilmette from former Crate & Barrel CEO Sascha Bopp. Dempster then had a change of heart and placed the home back on the market for $2.2 million just a few days later.
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Jul 19, 2021
The recession that broke out with onset of the coronavirus pandemic officially ended in April, making it the shortest downturn on record, according to the committee of economists that determines when recessions begin and end.
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Jul 19, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic, a high-stakes U.S. election and a racial reckoning expanded news audiences for many newspapers and TV news channels in 2020. But it was terrible for the newspaper industry's finances, and the overall contraction of the industry is likely to continue in 2021.
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Jul 19, 2021
Former Fat Rice owners Abe Conlon and Adrienne Lo will open NoodleBird in their previous restaurant's Logan Square space in August in Chicago.
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Jul 19, 2021
Air travel in the United States hit another pandemic-era record over the weekend as vacationers jammed airports, but shares of airlines, cruise lines, hotels and almost anything else related to travel tumbled Monday on growing concerns about highly contagious variants of coronavirus.
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Jul 19, 2021
Portillo's, the fast casual chain known for hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches and chocolate cake shakes, plans to go public, the company said Monday.
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Jul 19, 2021
NewsNation, the struggling Chicago-based cable news network, is expanding beyond prime time and launching a morning show.
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Jul 19, 2021
One by one, pandemic relief programs that financially supported millions of Americans are going away.
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Jul 16, 2021
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visits Chicago, spotlights Red Line South extension in push for Biden infrastructure deal.
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Jul 16, 2021
Back-to-school sales are expected to hit $32.5 billion nationwide, the strongest they've been in at least five years, according to an annual survey by Deloitte. Families who skipped buying some items last year when many kids attended school remotely are stocking up again while preparing for a return to the classroom in person.
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Jul 16, 2021
As companies in Illinois call workers back to offices, some may face a new challenge: employees who became addicted to drugs or alcohol during the pandemic.
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