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Dec 17, 2025
Expected to open next fall, the 11,000-square-foot banking center is being built out in vacant space previously occupied by Uniqlo, the Japanese clothing company.
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Dec 17, 2025
The $11 million paid is the seventh-highest amount any Chicago-area buyer has paid for a home in 2025.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 17, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 17, 2025
It's the holiday shopping/scamming season. And that makes it a good time to think about protecting yourself from the dangers of identity theft.
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Dec 16, 2025
Medline's initial public offering of stock is one of the largest of the year. The Northfield company sold about 216 million shares at $29 a piece.
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Dec 16, 2025
The committee's vote Tuesday followed a decision by a federal vaccine advisory committee earlier this month to no longer recommend hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns.
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Dec 16, 2025
Kraft Heinz has named veteran Chicago-based executive Steve Cahillane as CEO beginning Jan. 1, taking the reins of the packaged food giant as it prepares to split into two companies.
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Dec 16, 2025
Kraft Heinz has named veteran Chicago-based executive Steve Cahillane as CEO beginning Jan. 1, taking the reins of the packaged food giant as it prepares to split into two companies.
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Dec 16, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday celebrated his enactment of a new law that advocates say will avert catastrophic service cuts on Chicago's public transit systems and make the region's trains and buses safer and more reliable — even as he acknowledged "transformation takes a little bit of time."
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Dec 16, 2025
Citadel is shrinking its footprint in Chicago three years after billionaire owner Ken Griffin left for Florida, moving the company's remaining operations in the city out of the downtown tower that was named for it, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dec 16, 2025
The Chicago Christian RoboKnights will represent Illinois in the inaugural United States Governor's Cup in Washington, D.C.
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Dec 16, 2025
This five-bedroom French Country-inspired home has five full bathrooms, two half-baths, designer lighting and custom millwork throughout.
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Dec 15, 2025
Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 staff is giving very positive reviews to its new offices
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Dec 15, 2025
Four of the nation's top retail stores failed to promptly pull contaminated infant formula tied to a dangerous botulism outbreak from their shelves, federal health officials said in warning letters posted Monday.
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Dec 15, 2025
Holtkamp, who worked at Fermilab from 1998 to 2001, was the deputy director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University from 2014 to 2022, and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
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Dec 15, 2025
Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students said they drank alcohol within the last 30 days when surveyed in 2021, according to a report released Monday.
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Dec 15, 2025
Mike Malinin, who was the drummer for the rock band the Goo Goo Dolls for almost two decades, earlier this year paid $1.54 million for a Winnetka home.
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Dec 15, 2025
The development proposal is for the last remaining property at the site of the old Pheasant Run Resort, which closed in 2020 and was the scene of a devastating fire in 2022.
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Dec 15, 2025
The famous numbered metal stanchions that for decades defined Southwest Airlines' unique boarding process are coming down as the Dallas-based carrier laid out the final plans for a new boarding process for the beginning of assigned seating next year.
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Dec 15, 2025
Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn't expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process.
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Dec 15, 2025
Along with the unpredictable tariffs, stubborn inflation and weak hiring have shaken consumer confidence in the U.S. economy. The vast majority of U.S. adults say they've noticed higher than usual prices for groceries, electricity and holiday gifts in recent months, according to a December poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Dec 15, 2025
Wages are the sticking point in negotiations for Chicago Public Schools' lunchroom workers, who have been without a contract for nearly six months.
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Dec 14, 2025
A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump's choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president's views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates.
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Dec 14, 2025
An insect infestation qualifies as a situation for a condominium board to have legal right to enter a unit to abate the infestation.
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Dec 13, 2025
In the past 20 years, the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority has been instrumental in bringing about the commuter rail expansion that had long been a dream. Now the RDA is looking ahead at what else it can accomplish.
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Dec 13, 2025
A Christmas tree lot along Sauk Trail, the setting for Hallmark's "Christmas Under The Stars" movie, closed after 40 years.
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Dec 12, 2025
South Elgin's Bear Family Restaurants is selling all of its McDonald's restaurants. Owner David Bear plans to open eight K9 Resorts.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Transportation Security Administration is renewing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's push to end a collective bargaining agreement with airport screening officers.
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Dec 12, 2025
The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services.
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Dec 12, 2025
The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services.
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Dec 12, 2025
Metropolis Pointe would provide nearly 600 apartments and about 30 condos at the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and 26th Street.
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Dec 12, 2025
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Dec 12, 2025
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Dec 12, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy.
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Dec 12, 2025
More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Thursday evening.
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Dec 12, 2025
This holiday season isn't quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Mint abandoned designs from Joe Biden's presidency that highlighted women's suffrage and civil rights, favoring classical imagery.
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Dec 11, 2025
Michigan's auto industry remains dominant by several metrics but faces serious threats from southern states and China, from the electric vehicle transition and other technological upheaval, and from educational shortcomings, a new MichAuto report finds.
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Dec 11, 2025
Outdoor clothing company L.L.Bean is planning to open a store in Naperville in fall 2026, the fourth Illinois location for the brand.
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Dec 11, 2025
WBEZ-FM 91.5 was back on the air live and local Thursday morning after nearly a day without power forced the station to vacate its Navy Pier studios and run network programming.
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Dec 11, 2025
Using Treasury Department numbers on revenue from tariffs and Goldman Sachs estimates of who ends up paying for them, the Democrats' report Thursday found that American consumers' share of the bill came to nearly $159 billion — or $1,198 per household — from February through November.
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Dec 11, 2025
This two-story penthouse has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, 10-foot ceilings and a wraparound terrace with panoramic skyline views.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Before September, it had gone nine months without a cut.
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Dec 10, 2025
IDEM hosted a public meeting Tuesday for an air permit that would allow 70 diesel generators at a Michigan City data center site.
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Dec 10, 2025
Listeners to WBEZ-FM 91.5 may have noticed an abrupt change in the programming schedule Wednesday morning after a power outage shut down operations at the Chicago public radio station's Navy Pier studios.
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Dec 10, 2025
Four Hobart homeowners have filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate multiple actions by Hobart city officials that have "prepared" the way for the possible construction of an Amazon data center on more than a square mile of farmland within city limits.
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Dec 10, 2025
Weeks after a defiant Robert Isom promised American Airlines wouldn't back down from its Chicago O'Hare hub, the Fort Worth carrier is doubling down with a $30 million investment.
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Dec 10, 2025
International fashion boutique Mango opened an eagerly anticipated two-story location on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
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Dec 10, 2025
The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.
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Dec 10, 2025
The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.
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Dec 09, 2025
After a group of homeowners filed suit claiming Cook County's tax sale process robbed them of home equity, a federal judge has ruled the current system unconstitutional.
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Dec 09, 2025
A La Grange resident believes the village is targeting him with new rules limiting public comment time amid a condo development discussion.
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Dec 09, 2025
The owner of Credit 1 Union Amphitheatre, Live Nation, said investments will make the minimum $20 parking fee worthwhile.
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Dec 09, 2025
The owner of Credit 1 Union Amphitheatre, Live Nation, said investments will make the minimum $20 parking fee worthwhile.
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Dec 09, 2025
Kyuramen, a Japanese ramen restaurant with more than 120 locations in Japan and the U.S., has opened a location in Naperville.
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Dec 09, 2025
A vacancy on the CTA's board of directors could give Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson a chance to exert some control over the transit agency's future.
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Dec 09, 2025
In letters to Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, Trump's federal transit administrator threatened to withhold funds if the CTA does not increase law enforcement on transit.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Federal Reserve faces an unusually contentious meeting this week that will test Chair Jerome Powell's ability to corral the necessary support from fellow policymakers for a third straight interest rate cut.
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Dec 09, 2025
Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of management limbo.
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Dec 09, 2025
After a summer of sky-high electric bills, ComEd is offering Chicago customers some relief next year with $803 million in state-mandated nuclear energy credits.
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Dec 09, 2025
President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he's tackling Americans' affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances and social media posts to a campaign-style event.
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Dec 09, 2025
This six-bedroom home has six full bathrooms, one half bath, a library, a sunroom, a terrace and a formal living room with a wood-burning fireplace.
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Dec 09, 2025
Many therapists have stopped taking insurance because of what they describe as low payment rates and administrative hoops that make it difficult to treat patients.
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Dec 08, 2025
Every senior on Medicare should be intimately familiar with IRMAA — the initials that stand for Income Related Monthly Adjustment Amount.
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Dec 08, 2025
Despite a last-minute plea for more time, eviction looms for the remaining residents of the troubled South Shore apartment building raided by immigration agents earlier this year.
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Dec 08, 2025
From jobs to housing to grocery prices, the U.S. economy has been weakening for months. But the stock market is telling a different story.
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Dec 08, 2025
New car prices didn't spike after President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs in the spring, as some experts and dealers projected.
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Dec 08, 2025
Paramount has gone hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, challenging Netflix which reached a $72 billion takeover deal with the company just days ago.
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Dec 08, 2025
Miscanthus has a smaller carbon footprint than corn and soybeans, and experts say it has the potential to strengthen U.S. energy independence.
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Dec 07, 2025
The exterior of the House of Tomorrow in Beverly Shores has been restored with the installation of windows on its second and third floors.
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Dec 07, 2025
The U.S. Department of Transportation is waiving part of a fine assessed against Southwest Airlines after the company canceled thousands of flights during a winter storm in 2022.
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Dec 07, 2025
News and events around the area
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Dec 07, 2025
Housed in an old stable, Pullman Tech Workshop works to bring stability to area's historic housing stock as well as its residents.
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Dec 07, 2025
White Eagle banquet hall was the social center of Chicago's Polish community for decades. Now it has served its last pierogi.
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Dec 06, 2025
Republican state Rep. Brad Stephens is among several lawmakers who've introduced legislation that could bring those vehicles to Illinois, though none of the bills have advanced.
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Dec 05, 2025
Preckwinkle long has been a denizen of the nearby Hyde Park neighborhood, and has owned and lived in various condominium units there.
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Dec 05, 2025
U.S. airlines were notified this week that an investigation is underway into whether they complied with an emergency order requiring flight cuts at 40 major airports during the record government shutdown, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.
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Dec 05, 2025
Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96.
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Dec 05, 2025
The government has long advised that babies be vaccinated against hepatitis B right after birth to prevent serious liver damage that can be caused by the infection.
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Dec 05, 2025
The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decided Friday to recommend that it be left up to parents and doctors whether to vaccinate infants right after birth if the infants' mothers test negative for hepatitis B.
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Dec 05, 2025
U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds.
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Dec 05, 2025
The U.S. stock market is flirting with its all-time high on Friday.
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Dec 05, 2025
Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to buy the legacy Hollywood giant's studio and streaming business for $72 billion.
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Dec 04, 2025
The Chicago Tribune filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Thursday against Perplexity AI, alleging the startup has been unlawfully profiting off the newspaper's content.
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Dec 04, 2025
The 120-year-old CTA station, one of the system's most heavily-used, will be demolished and reconstructed as part of a massive rebuild.
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Dec 04, 2025
The donation will establish the Harold B. Smith Family Cancer Research Center at Rush within the Rush MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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Dec 04, 2025
More than 900,000 passengers and 80,000 vessels traveled through the Chicago Harbor Lock last year. Federal funding cuts have become a source of worry for boaters.
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Dec 04, 2025
This top-floor unit at 900 W. Washington Blvd. in Chicago offers skyline views from a wraparound terrace.
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Dec 04, 2025
A new organization set to represent downtown Aurora businesses and property owners, planned to be similar to one that joined with other groups to form the Aurora Regional Economic Alliance, is now in the early stages of being formed.
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Dec 04, 2025
"It's a story of 100 years of Americana, and really a rich story of 100 years of cycling as well," said Daniel Clarke, the filmmaker responsible for the documentary.
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Dec 04, 2025
An advocate for rideshare drivers first emailed the city on Sept. 19. But the city did not appear to take any action until a raid at the parking lot three weeks later.
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Dec 04, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 4, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 03, 2025
A Manhattan judge has ordered OpenAI to provide the Chicago Tribune and other news outlets with millions of anonymous chats between ChatGPT and its users in a major ongoing copyright infringement case.
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Dec 03, 2025
There is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of the potential for metal fragment contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Dec 03, 2025
A woman was pronounced dead Wednesday morning after police said she slipped and was struck by a CTA bus in the South Shore neighborhood, officials said.
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Dec 03, 2025
A report released by the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul urges the city to consider shifting its O'Hare rebuild plans around.
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Dec 03, 2025
Bruce Dold juggled journalism and business interests in a dual editor-publisher role as the industry grappled with declining revenue and downsizing.
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Dec 03, 2025
Macy's posted a surprise third-quarter profit and its strongest comparable sales in more than three years.
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Dec 03, 2025
SEIU Local 73 filed a petition to add about 1,600 school-based Chicago Public Schools workers to its ranks. The Chicago Teachers Union contends some below with it.
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