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Jan 26, 2022
The $700 million development will be called the Focal Point Community Campus
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Jan 26, 2022
An early market rally gave way to a broad slide for stocks and a surge in bond yields Wednesday after the Federal Reserve signaled it plans to raise interest rates "soon."
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Jan 26, 2022
Abbott has distributed more than 1.4 billion COVID-19 tests globally since the pandemic began
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Jan 26, 2022
The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it plans to begin raising its benchmark interest rate as soon as March, a key step in cooling escalating inflation.
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Jan 26, 2022
Boeing reported a $4.16 billion loss for the fourth quarter as the financial fallout of production flaws in the 787 Dreamliner grew much worse.
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Jan 26, 2022
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said her office is making changes to the scavenger sale of tax delinquent houses.
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Jan 26, 2022
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said her office is making changes to the scavenger sale of tax delinquent houses.
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Jan 25, 2022
Mars Wrigley is closing a nearly century-old chocolate plant on Chicago's Far West Side once hailed as the most beautiful candy factory in America.
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Jan 25, 2022
Owners in the luxury building banded together to appeal their tax assessments.
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Jan 25, 2022
Another volatile bout of trading on Wall Street ended with a broad pullback for stocks Tuesday, as investors grapple with economic red flags.
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Jan 25, 2022
For a brief moment over the weekend, west suburban Hinsdale became the center of a viral moment involving inflation, burritos, wealth and privilege.
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Jan 25, 2022
Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street Tuesday, continuing a volatile bout of trading that has sent markets swinging between sharp losses and gains as investors gauge several threats.
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Jan 25, 2022
With inflation punishing consumers and threatening the economy, the Federal Reserve this week will likely signal its intent to begin raising interest rates in March for the first time in three years.
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Jan 25, 2022
"The stakes are so high," one housing advocate said. "The consequences of eviction can linger for so long."
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Jan 24, 2022
Gov. J.B Pritzker vetoed legislation Monday that would have guaranteed COVID-19-related sick leave for school employees, while signaling support for a "compromise" plan that would limit compensation to only those who are fully vaccinated.
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Jan 24, 2022
Stocks recovered from big early losses Monday as investors jumped in before the closing bell.
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Jan 24, 2022
Demolition is expected to begin around Feb. 8 between Newport Avenue and Roscoe Street
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Jan 24, 2022
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points Monday as financial markets buckled in anticipation of inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and fretted over the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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Jan 24, 2022
Blakley first listed the townhome in April
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Jan 24, 2022
Blakley first listed the townhome in April
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Jan 24, 2022
Stocks are sliding at the open on Wall Street Monday, extending a recent run of losses that have left the S&P 500 at 6-month lows.
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Jan 24, 2022
Sterling Bay unveiled detailed plans for the next phase of the mixed-used Lincoln Yards megadevelopment, which is expected to break ground this summer along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
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Jan 24, 2022
Reyes is co-chairman of privately held Rosemont-based beer and food distribution firm Reyes Holdings
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Jan 23, 2022
The Center for COVID Control has come under scrutiny from law enforcement for alleged fraud and deceptive business practices in its testing sites.
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Jan 21, 2022
Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Friday as every major index heads for another weekly loss amid rising inflation and an expected increase in interest rates. Streaming video service Netflix plunged 24.5% after it delivered another quarter of disappointing subscriber growth.
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Jan 21, 2022
The company said that it will provide a modern take on the appearances of its six characters — which Mars calls "lentils" — and give them more nuanced personalities. The lentils, which are featured in red, green, orange, yellow, brown and blue, will also come in different shapes and sizes.
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Jan 21, 2022
Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Friday as every major index heads for another weekly loss amid rising inflation and an expected increase in interest rates. Streaming video service Netflix plunged 24.5% after it delivered another quarter of disappointing subscriber growth.
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Jan 21, 2022
Peloton's shares tumbled on Thursday after a media report said the exercise and treadmill company was temporarily halting production of its connected fitness products amid waning consumer demand.
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Jan 20, 2022
The Bolger family has asked area homebuilders for bids to develop the property.
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Jan 20, 2022
Chicago's indoor vaccination requirement will be lifted once the COVID-19 spread declines substantially, the city's top health official said.
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Jan 20, 2022
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months as the fast-spreading omicron variant continued to disrupt the job market.
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Jan 20, 2022
The Chicago-based airline said fourth quarter losses could bleed into the first quarter of 2022, amid the current spike in COVID-19 cases.
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Jan 19, 2022
Top editorial staff at the Chicago-based A.V. Club, a sister publication to The Onion, are leaving the entertainment website en masse after refusing a mandatory relocation to new offices in Los Angeles.
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Jan 19, 2022
The City Council voted 8-1 during a virtual meeting Tuesday to approve a conditional use permit for World of Weed, Inc., to operate its dispensary on Waukegan Road near the Fountain Square shopping center, giving the business what it needs to begin readying its building.
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Jan 19, 2022
Flora Group, a cannabis craft grower that wants to open Elgin's first pot production facility, has won the recommendation of the city's Planning and Zoning Commission.
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Jan 19, 2022
The Seattle coffee giant is dumping its vaccination requirement for employees, citing last week's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which rejected the Biden administration's plan to require vaccines or regular COVID testing at companies with more than 100 workers.
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Jan 19, 2022
The workers arrived at the hospital Monday
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Jan 19, 2022
What does Microsoft-Activision deal really mean for the millions of people who play video games, either on consoles or their phones?
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Jan 19, 2022
The bill calls for the creation of the Lake County convention and entertainment district along with a Lake County convention and entertainment fund to be administered by the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority.
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Jan 19, 2022
Economists see more trouble ahead as we enter the third year of a pandemic.
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Jan 18, 2022
The Chicago Public Media board voted Tuesday to move forward with its acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times, joining the daily newspaper with WBEZ-FM 91.5 as one nonprofit newsroom.
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Jan 18, 2022
Nearly 90% of Illinois school districts statewide are struggling with an alarming teacher shortage that has reached a crisis level during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials with an organization of regional superintendents said Tuesday.
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Jan 18, 2022
Naperville is on track to receive more than $10.3 million in tax revenue from vehicle sales in 2021 because of the rising cost of cars.
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Jan 18, 2022
Less than two months after reaching a deal to sell its longtime Northbrook campus, Allstate has purchased an office building in Chicago's Loop, which may serve as its new headquarters.
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Jan 18, 2022
The Geneva Planning and Zoning Commission has unanimously recommended site plan approval for an expansion of Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital's Cancer Center in Geneva.
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Jan 18, 2022
The first product, called Canopy, is a system that uses cameras, radar, global positioning and artificial intelligence to spot a potential thief and notify the security firm.
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Jan 18, 2022
Frontier used to fly out of Midway Airport, but left in early 2015 to consolidate operations at O'Hare
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Jan 18, 2022
AT&T will postpone new wireless service near some airports planned for this week after the nation's largest airlines said the service would interfere with aircraft technology and cause massive flight disruptions.
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Jan 18, 2022
AT&T will postpone new wireless service near some airports planned for this week after the nation's largest airlines said the service would interfere with aircraft technology and cause massive flight disruptions.
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Jan 18, 2022
The all-cash deal will let Microsoft accelerate mobile gaming and provide building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment.
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Jan 18, 2022
The all-cash deal will let Microsoft accelerate mobile gaming and provide building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment.
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Jan 18, 2022
Oak Park's Village Board voted to allow residents to create accessory dwelling units, or separate units in their basements or attics.
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Jan 18, 2022
A new law that takes effect Jan. 1 will allow donations of unused medication for other patients to use.
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Jan 18, 2022
FoodLab Chicago is a nonprofit helping South Side restaurants shift to online ordering and takeout or in applying for the Paycheck Protection Program.
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Jan 17, 2022
Independent contractor Austin McEwen, 26, and others were required to work in conditions that management knew were unsafe, law firm alleges.
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Jan 17, 2022
The estate was built in 1906 for noted banker and philanthropist Norman Wait Harris, whose firm was later known as Harris Bank.
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Jan 15, 2022
The struggles of safety-net hospitals during the fifth COVID-19 surge reflect long-standing inequities in Chicago's health care community.
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Jan 14, 2022
The condo has two bathrooms and a kitchen with bamboo floors
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Jan 14, 2022
Chicago-based online ticket broker Vivid Seats is moving its headquarters to the historic Marshall Field building in converted office space above Macy's flagship State Street store
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Jan 14, 2022
Netflix is raising prices for its video streaming customers in the U.S. and Canada, less than a year and a half since its last price increase, as competition from other streaming services increases.
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Jan 14, 2022
Three of the nation's biggest banks reported blowout profits for 2021 on Friday, helped by the improving economy and consumers and businesses willing to spend and take on loans.
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Jan 14, 2022
Americans overlooked shortages, spiking prices and uncertainty over the omicron variant to break spending records during the critical holiday shopping season, but figures released Friday show that spending is starting to slow.
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Jan 14, 2022
Farmstead, a California-based online grocer, is coming to Chicago with lower prices and free same-delivery, looking to take a bite out of Amazon Fresh and traditional grocery stores.
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Jan 14, 2022
The mandate excludes locations in residential or office buildings
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Jan 13, 2022
For companies that were waiting to hear from the U.S. Supreme Court before deciding whether to require vaccinations or regular coronavirus testing for workers, the next move is up to them.
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Jan 13, 2022
Sixteen Chicago restaurants and businesses have been cited for violating the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate since it was enacted Jan. 3.
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Jan 13, 2022
Months after requesting documents from more than a dozen social platforms, the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas targeting Twitter, Meta, Reddit and YouTube after lawmakers said the companies' initial responses were inadequate.
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Jan 13, 2022
People looking for health insurance in the grip of the omicron surge have through Saturday to sign up for taxpayer-subsidized private coverage under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
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Jan 13, 2022
The mansion's new owner has a tie to the house dating back to his childhood.
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Jan 13, 2022
The United States Mint said this week it has begun shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya Angelou, the first coins in its American Women Quarters Program.
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Jan 13, 2022
Prices at the wholesale level surged by a record 9.7% for all of 2021, setting an annual record and providing further evidence that inflation is still present at all levels of the U.S. economy.
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Jan 13, 2022
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since mid-November, but still low by historic standards.
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Jan 13, 2022
"The mild weather in December, along with having five Fridays certainly helped volumes in December," Schuffert said.
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Jan 12, 2022
The results were tabulated Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board's regional office in Chicago.
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Jan 12, 2022
A former loan officer for a failed Bridgeport bank admitted in federal court Wednesday that she falsified loan records for Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson at the direction of the bank's president.
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Jan 12, 2022
Dan Vicari replaces Duane Hayden, whose contract was not renewed by the authority. Hayden served for four years during former Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson's administration.
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Jan 12, 2022
A Boston-based real estate development company is set to buy the Edens Plaza property and announced that online retailer Wayfair will open a store there.
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Jan 12, 2022
Restaurants in Chicago neighborhoods with low COVID-19 vaccination rates are feeling the impact of a new vaccine mandate in its first week, some owners say.
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Jan 12, 2022
Some details of how the requirement will work remain scarce.
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Jan 12, 2022
At-home COVID-19 rapid tests will soon be free to many people after the Biden administration said it will require insurance companies to cover their cost. Here's what to know.
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Jan 12, 2022
Inflation jumped in December at its fastest year-over-year pace in nearly four decades, surging 7% and raising costs for consumers.
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Jan 12, 2022
RCN, a cable and internet provider available to about 1 million homes in Chicago and the suburbs, is rebranding as Astound Broadband.
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Jan 12, 2022
Chicago Bears Chairman George McCaskey said there is "a lot of due diligence that needs to be performed before we can close" on the Arlington Heights property for a potential new stadium.
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Jan 11, 2022
Shortages at U.S. grocery stores have grown more acute in recent weeks as new problems — like the fast-spreading omicron variant and severe weather — have piled on to the supply chain struggles and labor shortages that have plagued retailers since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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Jan 11, 2022
Shortages at U.S. grocery stores have grown more acute in recent weeks as new problems — like the fast-spreading omicron variant and severe weather — have piled on to the supply chain struggles and labor shortages.
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Jan 11, 2022
Employees at the Art Institute of Chicago have won the vote to form a union, achieving certification Tuesday from the National Labor Relations Board.
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Jan 11, 2022
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates this year, weighing heaviest on pricey technology stocks, which become less attractive to investors as interest rates rise.
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Jan 11, 2022
The World Bank is downgrading its outlook for the global economy, blaming continuing outbreaks of COVID-19, a reduction in government economic support and ongoing bottlenecks in global supply chains.
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Jan 11, 2022
Overall, about 3,000 United Airlines employees have recently tested positive for the coronavirus. The vast majority are not working, and United is cutting its flight schedule to manage the shortage.
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Jan 11, 2022
A weary retail workforce is experiencing the fallout from the latest wave of the pandemic, with a rapidly spreading variant cutting into staffing.
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Jan 11, 2022
Bank of America is slashing the amount it charges customers when they spend more than they have in their accounts and plans to eliminate entirely its fees for bounced checks.
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Jan 10, 2022
Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans.
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Jan 10, 2022
After Ballast Point acquisition, the Chicago-based Kings & Convicts has abandoned its plans in Wisconsin to move to San Diego, in the former Saint Archer Brewing space.
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Jan 10, 2022
With inflation surging, unemployment falling and wages rising, some economists are warning that the Federal Reserve may have waited too long to reverse its ultra-low-rate policies, putting the economy at heightened risk.
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Jan 10, 2022
Starbucks said in December that all of its U.S. workers must be fully vaccinated by Feb. 9 or face a weekly COVID testing requirement.
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Jan 10, 2022
This year's tax filing season will begin on Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year, the Internal Revenue Service announced Monday.
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Jan 10, 2022
As a close confidant of Warren Buffet, he was the Chicago-based manager of insurer Geico's investment portfolio for 17 years and a noted philanthropist.
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Jan 10, 2022
Take-Two Interactive, maker of "Grand Theft Auto" and "Red Dead Redemption," is buying Zynga, maker of "FarmVille" and "Words With Friends," in a deal valued at about $12.7 billion.
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Jan 10, 2022
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline dropped 2 cents over the past three weeks to $3.39 per gallon.
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Jan 10, 2022
Nearly 80% of all private sector workers get at least one paid sick day, according to a national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But many workers, particularly low income, are vulnerable.
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