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Dec 26, 2025
As employers tighten up hiring criteria in the loosening labor market, it's becoming even harder for the roughly 60% of Americans without a degree to land a job.
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Dec 26, 2025
As employers tighten up hiring criteria in the loosening labor market, it's becoming even harder for the roughly 60% of Americans without a degree to land a job.
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Dec 26, 2025
Metro Detroit cannabis dispensaries say sales have ticked up in recent weeks as customers stock up ahead of a new 24% tax set to take effect Jan. 1.
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Dec 26, 2025
The condo at 401 N. Wabash Ave., Unit 48A, has floor-to-ceiling windows and unobstructed north and east views of the lake, river and skyline.
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Dec 26, 2025
Imagine a future where you board an American Airlines flight without a gate agent scanning a boarding pass.
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Dec 26, 2025
Riders on CTA buses and trains have a low chance of being a violent crime victim, a Tribune review shows, despite high-profile crimes this year.
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Dec 25, 2025
The Northwest Indiana casinos had a rough three months with revenue declines reported in September, October and November.
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Dec 25, 2025
Brevard County's southern barrier island is one of the least developed areas on Florida's Atlantic coast. It's a quaint, still pristine paradise, but all that seemed at risk just a few years ago.
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Dec 25, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 25, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 24, 2025
Chicago Bears rookie tight end Colston Loveland over the summer paid $1.27 million for a four-bedroom house in Long Grove.
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Dec 24, 2025
NiSource's new GenCo subsidiary was set up to supply power to consumers like data centers without affecting other customers' rates.
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Dec 24, 2025
Wall Street closed higher and reached more records Wednesday on a holiday-shortened trading day.
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Dec 24, 2025
Wall Street was largely unchanged early Wednesday as markets hovered near record levels on a holiday-shortened trading day.
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Dec 24, 2025
A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia sued over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.
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Dec 24, 2025
A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize.
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Dec 24, 2025
The Oasis Foundation was formed to assist patients at Flossmoor-based Oasis Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc. and The House of Goshen.
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Dec 24, 2025
The freeze is "an authoritarian move to punish the city of Chicago," one expert said.
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Dec 24, 2025
The freeze is "an authoritarian move to punish the city of Chicago," one expert said.
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Dec 24, 2025
Simply put, chicken money is money set aside to let you sleep at night, no matter how the stock market fluctuates. It is not just something you need at a certain age or a certain level of wealth. No matter what your personal finances, everyone should have some chicken money.
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Dec 23, 2025
There's another Wall Street truism that's relevant here: Bull markets climb stairs, but bear markets ride a slide. In other words, stocks go down far faster than they go up.
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Dec 23, 2025
Millions of borrowers are considered in default, meaning they are 270 days past due on their payments. The department must give borrowers 30 days notice before their wages can be garnished.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new owners of the Kenilworth mansion have explored seeking a variance to add a swimming pool on the tableland portion of the bluff of the half-acre property.
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Dec 23, 2025
If the Chicago Bears decide to build their new stadium in Northwest Indiana, the South Shore Convention and Visitor Authority will be ready to chip in however it's needed.
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Dec 23, 2025
At least one person was fatally wounded and one injured in a possible robbery on the CTA Pink Line, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune.
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Dec 23, 2025
This seven-bedroom, 6½-bath waterfront home in Oak Brook has views of Mayslake from an outdoor patio, terrace and balcony.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new proposed federal classification of marijuana would allow more research, and would let cannabis businesses take normal tax deductions.
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Dec 23, 2025
The new proposed federal classification of marijuana would allow more research, and would let cannabis businesses take normal tax deductions.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Fortune 500 company has broadened its protein offerings in recent years, adding convenient deli option Columbus Craft Meats, healthy ground turkey and snack staple Planters nuts.
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Dec 22, 2025
Family & Crab will the 25th when it opens Friday.
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Dec 22, 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias released this year's rejected vanity and personalized license plate applications.
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Dec 22, 2025
From department stores to grocery stores, most retailers across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours.
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Dec 22, 2025
Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready.
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Dec 22, 2025
Construction on the new $360 million Hollywood Casino-Aurora resort has shifted indoors as officials say the outside is nearly complete.
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Dec 22, 2025
In merger application, railroad plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago's West Side.
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Dec 22, 2025
Most Americans aren't making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar's final month to reach budget targets.
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Dec 22, 2025
Big selloffs and quick reversals have been a feature of stock markets for the past 18 months.
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Dec 22, 2025
Cook County suburban school districts are begging to receive their share of property tax revenues in order to to make payroll.
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Dec 20, 2025
The suit filed by the Harold B. Smith Foundation alleges breach of contract and breach of good faith and fair dealing.
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Dec 20, 2025
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Dec 20, 2025
More than two dozen Chicago Public Schools properties remain vacant. Some have been sold, but most are racking up millions in upkeep costs.
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Dec 19, 2025
The owner of Bleuroot in West Dundee says her restaurant's last day will be New Year's Eve; escalating costs became too much.
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Dec 19, 2025
Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Christkindlmarket at Aurora's RiverEdge Park, located at 360 N. Broadway, has been open Thursdays to Sundays since Nov. 21 and is now open every day through Christmas Eve.
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Dec 19, 2025
Federal labor investigators are looking into the overnight death of an airline maintenance technician killed in a crash between two cherry-picker machines at Denver International Airport, authorities confirmed Friday.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Lake County Plan commission heard an initial presentation Wednesday about a proposed data center in Eagle Creek Township about six miles away from Lowell High School.
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Dec 19, 2025
As the Chicago Bears openly consider constructing a new stadium in Northwest Indiana, team officials say the franchise's presence in Lake Forest will continue.
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Dec 19, 2025
OSF HealthCare, Ascension and Hospital Sisters Health System all say they will not take part in medical aid-in-dying.
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Dec 19, 2025
Downtown Homewood businesses dimmed lights, placed candles and extended hours for pre-Christmas shoppers Thursday night.
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Dec 19, 2025
Redevelopment plans for the former CVS Health headquarters and vacant land belonging to Northwestern Memorial Hospital near I-294 in Glenview received a mixed response from a village panel charged with considering the proposal. Developer Scott Gibbel is looking to construct three buildings for "light industrial" uses on 29 acres of land at 2211-2305 Sanders Road […]
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Dec 19, 2025
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May.
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Dec 19, 2025
The La Grange Park Recreation Center expansion will be financed by a $10.7 million referendum passed by district voters in 2023.
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Dec 19, 2025
Ford is recalling more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in the U.S. because of a parking function problem that could lead to them rolling away.
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Dec 19, 2025
The CTA announced Thursday it would boost security on the transit system by increasing the number of police officers as well as K-9 security staffing.
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Dec 19, 2025
A man set himself on fire Friday morning at Damen Avenue on the Blue Line and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, officials said.
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Dec 19, 2025
Sony is buying a 41% stake in the Charles M. Schulz comic "Peanuts" and its characters including Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Canada's WildBrain.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Illinois Commerce Commission sliced $25.4 million from ComEd's $268.5 million rate reconciliation request Thursday, holding down increases customers will pay for electricity delivery next year.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Illinois Commerce Commission sliced $25.4 million from ComEd's $268.5 million rate reconciliation request Thursday, holding down increases customers will pay for electricity delivery next year.
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Dec 18, 2025
Starting Friday, the Chicago Transit Authority Chicago police will would boost the number of officers patrolling in response to a threat from President Trump.
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Dec 18, 2025
The Chicago Bears announced they will consider moving to Indiana if they can't get the deal they want in Illinois. Illinois lawmakers are skeptical.
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Dec 18, 2025
The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.
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Dec 18, 2025
The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.
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Dec 18, 2025
TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States.
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Dec 18, 2025
On Monday, the South Shore Line began running a two-car train along the new rail line to start testing and conditioning, so bugs can be worked out before passenger service is set to start in March, President and General Manager Michael Noland said Tuesday.
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Dec 18, 2025
The specter of losing federal funding has already driven some Chicago area hospital systems to scale back gender-affirming care for minors. But a few hospitals have held out.
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Dec 18, 2025
Trump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said is valued at more than $6 billion.
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Dec 18, 2025
U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month, the government said in a report that was delayed and likely distorted by the government shutdown.
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Dec 18, 2025
The U.S. government admitted that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in causing a collision last January.
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Dec 18, 2025
This five-bedroom four-story home has four full bathrooms, one half bath, hardwood floors and custom millwork.
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Dec 17, 2025
A family-owned, Winnetka-based private equity firm is nearing the final stages of an agreement to purchase the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 17, 2025
Here's what to know about the Chicago Bears' possible move from Soldier Field.
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Dec 17, 2025
In 1995, the Chicago Bears threatened to move to northwest Indiana if the team didn't get money for a new stadium. They're doing it again.
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Dec 17, 2025
Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority chairman Tom Collins Jr. voiced a sense of urgency for the coming year at the conclusion of Wednesday's authority meeting. "There's pressure to bring business here," he said. "The focus is on shovels in the grounds, planes in the air."
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Dec 17, 2025
In a break with federal guidance, Illinois will continue to recommend that nearly all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccines, the state health department announced Wednesday.
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Dec 17, 2025
Strop paid $625,000 in 2019 for the three-story detached house, which was built in 2005.
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Dec 17, 2025
President Donald Trump says he is sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas.
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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
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
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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