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Mar 20, 2025
At its monthly meeting Wednesday, the Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority board updated its minimum standards for businesses. Members also heard multiple comments about an Indiana House bill targeting the makeup of the board. The airport's minimum standards are requirements that must be met by businesses to provide services at the facility, according to the Aircraft […]
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Mar 20, 2025
Discontent at WFMT spilled into the public eye last fall, when Dennis Moore, a veteran host, accused the station of firing him rather than accommodating a doctor-approved disability.
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Mar 20, 2025
Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
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Mar 20, 2025
Metra agreed to pay its lobbyist for work related to a looming transit budget gap, even as agency leaders have called for more funding.
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Mar 20, 2025
Address: 1040 N. Lake Shore Drive, Unit 31A, Chicago Price: $2,195,000 Listed: Jan. 15, 2025 This three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home is on the 31st floor of The Carlyle condominium building and has a 20-foot terrace with Lake Michigan and skyline views. The Snaidero-designed kitchen has granite countertops as well as a walk-in pantry with a washer […]
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Mar 19, 2025
Lawmakers vote in favor of bill expanding reporting requirements related to sexual misconduct in health care, following Tribune investigation.
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Mar 19, 2025
The specialty center isn't a typical warehouse, Site Leader Mary Beth Klippel said, but a fulfillment center for small and medium-sized sellers, of which there are 5,500 in Indiana. Products are shipped to the site at 9850 Mississippi St., where they are first directed onto a conveyor belt and examined via laser for its weight and size; a second machine combines the shipper's information with the customer's information and stamps on a red sticker.
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Mar 19, 2025
In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.
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Mar 19, 2025
The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday and signaled that it still expects to cut rates twice this year even as it sees inflation staying stubbornly elevated.
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Mar 19, 2025
A Southwest plane and business jet that nearly collided at Midway last month came within 200 feet of each other, a preliminary report from federal investigators shows.
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Mar 19, 2025
If you haven't filed your 2021 tax returns you might be missing on a COVID stimulus payment. Taxpayers who haven't filed 2021 tax returns who may be eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit must file it by April 15, 2025 to claim the credit.
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Mar 19, 2025
Orland Park looks to attract a Dick's Sporting Goods concept store to the vacant Sears space at Orland Square shopping center.
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Mar 19, 2025
An Australian-based fast food company, Guzman y Gomez, opened a Mexican restaurant in downtown Evanston.
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Mar 19, 2025
Thirty Sun-Times employees, including 23 reporters and editors, will be voluntarily leaving the newspaper, which joined forces three years ago with NPR radio station WBEZ in a groundbreaking nonprofit media model.
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Mar 19, 2025
Thirty Sun-Times employees, including 23 reporters and editors, will be voluntarily leaving the newspaper, which joined forces three years ago with NPR radio station WBEZ in a groundbreaking nonprofit media model.
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Mar 19, 2025
The device has the potential to make blood draws more efficient, while helping health systems deal with a shortage of phlebotomists.
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Mar 19, 2025
Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk's electric-car company are cropping up across the U.S. and overseas. While no injuries have been reported, Tesla showrooms, vehicle lots, charging stations and privately owned cars have been targeted.
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Mar 19, 2025
Illinois legislators are considering several bills to provide rules for Artificial Intelligence in Education, Healthcare and other areas.
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Mar 19, 2025
Not everyone is lucky enough to work at a great workplace. If you do, it's worthy of recognition. Be honored as a Top Workplace in Chicagoland.
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Mar 18, 2025
The order would require the city to install at least 75 accessible pedestrian signals this year.
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Mar 18, 2025
A California pet food maker has recalled its raw chicken products after they were linked to bird flu infections in two cats and suspected in a third in New York City.
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Mar 18, 2025
The Kane County Cougars are being sold to REV Entertainment, the company announced on Monday, with the baseball team to keep playing at its longtime home in Geneva.
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Mar 18, 2025
Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department, but fewer than 21,000 workers who took a voluntary resignation plan are leaving in the coming months, a senior defense official told reporters Tuesday.
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Mar 18, 2025
It would require that manufacturers of medium and heavy-duty trucks slowly ramp up the number of zero-emissions vehicles sold.
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Mar 18, 2025
Address: 555 S Julian St, Naperville Listed: Feb. 13, 2025 Price: $1,595,000 Listing agents: Alice Chin and James Gargano, Compass, 630-425-2868 and 630-204-2950 This five-bedroom home has four full bathrooms, one half bath, hardwood floors and formal living and dining rooms. The kitchen features white cabinetry, granite countertops, a custom range hood, a vaulted ceiling with […]
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Mar 17, 2025
Forever 21 has filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time and plans to close down its U.S. business as traffic in U.S. shopping malls fades and competition from online retailers like Amazon, Temu and Shein intensifies.
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Mar 17, 2025
There is a growing movement across Europe and Canada to boycott U.S. products. People are joining Facebook groups where they exchange ideas about how to avoid U.S. products and find alternatives.
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Mar 17, 2025
The Dallas-based carrier announced it would do away with its well-known "bags fly free" policy. Several well-known Southwest policies are on the chopping block, putting the airline's offerings are more in line with other carriers.
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Mar 17, 2025
Jonathon Schneider, the company's communications manager, said the stops along the Chicago-Madison route are Waukegan, Milwaukee and Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, creating nonstop service for people in the Waukegan area to both Chicago and Milwaukee.
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Mar 17, 2025
Most U.S. adults think betting on professional sports should be legal — but they don't feel the same way about college sports, according to a new poll.
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Mar 16, 2025
Deerfield boy runs into some delays and discovers that riding to all of the city's "L" stations in under 9 hours is no small feat.
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Mar 16, 2025
Q. I have been trying to keep up with the different court rulings and government issuances relating to the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and whether it is currently in effect or not for community associations. The courts and government have given me whiplash on this issue the last few months. Is CTA compliance required for […]
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Mar 16, 2025
In February, slow zones covered some 30% of the rail system, up from 13% five years earlier. It's one more hurdle for the CTA to overcome.
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Mar 16, 2025
Following a Tribune-Illinois Answers Project report, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi's office is fixing hundreds of properties it misclassified.
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Mar 15, 2025
City officials are shocked by language in the state budget bill that would shift appointment authority for the Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority while state legislators avoid questions on who put the language in the bill.
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Mar 14, 2025
The Union Pier mansion that sold was built in 2007 and has some 99 feet of Lake Michigan frontage.
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Mar 14, 2025
The three candidates spoke to a packed auditorium at the village hall Thursday, vying to succeed Mayor Tom Hayes, who is retiring.
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Mar 14, 2025
U.S. stocks rallied to their best day in months on Friday as Wall Street's roller coaster suddenly shot back upward. That still wasn't enough to keep the U.S. market from a fourth straight losing week, its longest such streak since August.
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Mar 14, 2025
The closure of the helicopter route near the airport makes permanent the restrictions put in place after Jan. 29 midair collision.
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Mar 14, 2025
Metra's trains on the Milwaukee District North Line are halted near Lake Forest and "extensive delays anticipated" after a freight train struck a pedestrian Friday, according to a Metra.
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Mar 14, 2025
Weeks after a family farm in Matteson lost its entire flock of nearly 3,000 chickens to bird flu, the owners learned their federal funding to remodel a pole barn is in limbo. Kakadoodle farm owners MariKate and Marty Thomas were informed in October they would receive a $220,000 grant, which they planned to use to […]
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Mar 14, 2025
Metra's trains on the Milwaukee District North Line are halted near Lake Forest and "extensive delays anticipated" after a freight train struck a pedestrian Friday, according to a Metra.
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Mar 14, 2025
The decision to allow a new trial could have implications for both the companies and families with babies born prematurely.
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Mar 14, 2025
An American Airlines plane caught fire on the tarmac after landing at Denver International Airport with engine issues Thursday evening, forcing passengers to evacuate the burning aircraft, authorities said.
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Mar 14, 2025
HuFriedyGroup, a Chicago-based dental equipment manufacturer, has agreed to lease a 326,278-square-foot-building - the largest of five warehouses that have sprung up along the Tri-State Tollway in Glenview.
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Mar 14, 2025
Manhattan's historic Round Barn's significance stretches even beyond its links to Chicago's Columbian Exhibition.
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Mar 13, 2025
The groups say the funding disruption could potentially halt their work, which includes providing services to people facing housing discrimination.
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Mar 13, 2025
As Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather looked through the Tribune's photo archive she realized that much of the city's history has been intertwined with the Walgreens chain. Here's a look back at some of what she discovered.
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Mar 13, 2025
Using Consumer Price Index data, the Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans and how they are changing under the Trump administration.
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Mar 13, 2025
Now a private equity executive, Todd Siwak led Ferrara Candy and then served as president of Ferrero North America, which acquired Ferrara in 2017.
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Mar 13, 2025
President Donald Trump threatened a 200% tariff on European wine, champagne and spirits if the EU imposes a tariff on American whiskey.
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Mar 13, 2025
MyHome Team features 20 regional sports networks, including the Cubs on Marquee Sports Network and the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks on CHSN.
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Mar 13, 2025
Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $6 a dozen.
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Mar 13, 2025
Address: 1323 W. Melrose St., Chicago Price: $2,195,000 Listing date: Feb. 3, 2025 This six-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom home in the Lakeview neighborhood has new hardwood floors, tall ceilings and detailed millwork. The kitchen has an island with a breakfast bar and a built-in banquette, and opens up to a family room with custom built-ins and one […]
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Mar 12, 2025
The tech-heavy Nasdaq stock index slipped into a correction last week, defined as a 10% drop from its most recent peak. The broader S&P 500 neared that level Tuesday.
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Mar 12, 2025
President Donald Trump officially increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% on Wednesday.
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Mar 12, 2025
Major trade partners swiftly hit back at President Donald Trump's increased tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, imposing stiff new taxes on U.S goods including products from textiles and water heaters to beef and bourbon.
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Mar 12, 2025
A 25-year-old man was shot outside of O'Hare International Airport early Wednesday morning following an argument between two people, according to Chicago police.
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Mar 12, 2025
A 25-year-old man was shot outside of O'Hare International Airport early Wednesday morning following an argument between two people, according to Chicago police.
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Mar 12, 2025
President Donald Trump officially increased tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% on Wednesday.
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Mar 12, 2025
Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis has partnered with Hollywood casinos to launch Italian restaurants at two suburban Chicago casinos.
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Mar 11, 2025
Starbucks workers said they wanted to put pressure on the Seattle-based coffee giant to finalize a contract with the union on the eve of the company's annual shareholder meeting.
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Mar 11, 2025
Phase three of the project will include structural rehabilitation for 19 bridges and pavement patching throughout the 7.5-mile corridor from the I-94 split south to downtown.
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Mar 11, 2025
Wednesday marks the grand opening of Shake Shack in Naperville, the first new restaurant in the city's long-awaited Block 59 entertainment complex.
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Mar 11, 2025
For the first time in a decade, the ranchers raising the livestock that get turned into hamburgers and steaks like their profit margins.
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Mar 11, 2025
Metra is considering renaming all of its lines, as the rail agency prepares to take over operation of three Union Pacific routes. But before the takeover goes into effect, Metra and Union Pacific must resolve a compensation dispute that has spurred Metra to sue the freight railroad. Metra warned the dispute could lead to the […]
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Mar 11, 2025
President Donald Trump says that he will double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada, escalating a trade war with the United States' northern neighbor.
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Mar 11, 2025
President Donald Trump 's threat on Tuesday to double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada led the provincial government of Ontario to suspend its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States.
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Mar 11, 2025
Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that it will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals.
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Mar 11, 2025
When a recipient must give up their housing voucher, they lose access to the nation's primary subsidized housing program.
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Mar 11, 2025
Address: 18 Creekside Lane, Barrington Hills Listed: Feb. 17, 2025 Price: $1,295,000 Listing agent: John Morrison, @properties Christie's International Real Estate, 847-409-0297 This five-bedroom brick Georgian home has four full bathrooms, two half baths, hardwood floors and five fireplaces. The kitchen features concrete and granite counters, an island and a walk-in pantry. The adjacent breakfast […]
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Mar 10, 2025
Hundreds of dining hall workers at Northwestern University walked off the job as their union said it had reached an impasse with their employer.
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Mar 10, 2025
The 1,122-square-foot house has drawn national attention — including from "The Tonight Show's" Jimmy Fallon — for its oblong shape and layout.
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Mar 10, 2025
Ontario's premier, the leader of Canada's most populous province, announced that effective Monday it is charging 25% more for electricity to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war.
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Mar 10, 2025
Gov. JB Pritzker announced a $300 million pitch in February to make an old prison site and four other vacated state properties ready for economic development.
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Mar 10, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 10, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 09, 2025
President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices, and isn't ruling out the possibility of a recession this year.
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Mar 08, 2025
Hundreds of people gathered downtown to protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's government spending cuts, carrying signs that read "Launch Musk to Mars" and "Democracy Dies with DOGE."
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Mar 08, 2025
Stefania Marzelia's history as a barista inspired her to start Sips, a business that makes syrups with minimal ingredients for coffee and other foods.
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Mar 07, 2025
President Donald Trump said Friday he's committed to making the U.S. a world leader in cryptocurrencies as industry leaders heaped praise on him for reversing what they said had been unfair attacks on digital assets by the previous administration.
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Mar 07, 2025
Confusion began when the agency announced it would relocate six regional offices throughout the country because they are in cities that "do not comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
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Mar 07, 2025
Homeland Security's move marks a major effort to dismantle union protections under the Trump administration. The TSA union called it on "unprovoked attack" and vowed to fight it.
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Mar 07, 2025
The discovery of a huge unexploded World War II-era bomb near the tracks severed Paris' high-speed rail links with London and Brussels.
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Mar 07, 2025
Dozens of Chicago residents have recently lost thousands of dollars to a scam where con artists will use a sad story to lure victims into paying them thousands of dollars.
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Mar 07, 2025
Illinois patients worry about losing Medicaid coverage, and hospital leaders say cuts could lead to serious limits on care.
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Mar 07, 2025
Illinois patients worry about losing Medicaid coverage, and hospital leaders say cuts could lead to serious limits on care.
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Mar 07, 2025
Next Steps Chicago is one of the first clinics in the U.S. to offer a new FDA-approved device to treat spinal cord injuries.
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Mar 06, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a government reserve of bitcoin, a key marker in the cryptocurrency's journey towards possible mainstream acceptance.
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Mar 06, 2025
The boycott of Target calls for supporters to give up shopping at the company's stores to protest the discount retailer's decision to end some of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Mar 06, 2025
President Donald Trump's ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America's three biggest trading partners is baffling businesses and causing them to delay or cancel the investments that help drive economic growth.
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Mar 06, 2025
The company will continue to operate under the name Walgreens and its headquarters will remain in the Chicago area.
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Mar 06, 2025
The company will continue to operate under the name Walgreens and its headquarters will remain in the Chicago area.
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Mar 06, 2025
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued Trump after he fired her and the agency's general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, on Jan. 27.
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Mar 06, 2025
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued Trump after he fired her and the agency's general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, on Jan. 27.
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Mar 06, 2025
February had the highest number of job-cut announcements since mid-2020, led by federal agencies, as well as retail and technology firms.
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Mar 06, 2025
Another sell-off on Wall Street sent the Nasdaq composite 10% below high its record as whiplash over tariffs grows and as AI stars lose more of their shine.
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Mar 06, 2025
As toy inventors, toy manufacturers and buyers for stores that sell toys met for a four-day annual trade show in New York last weekend, a topic besides which items were destined for holiday wish lists permeated the displays.
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Mar 06, 2025
To President Donald Trump, "tariff" is more than "the most beautiful word in the dictionary," something he says often.
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Mar 06, 2025
Address: 363 E. Wacker Drive, No. 4308, Chicago Price: $2,998,000 Listed: Jan. 17, 2025 This three-bedroom, 2 ½-bath home in The Residences at The St. Regis Chicago has northeastern skyline views, a private balcony and hardwood flooring throughout. The living and dining rooms are open-concept with floor-to-ceiling windows, and a den can be transitioned into […]
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Mar 05, 2025
President Trump's 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, along with a heightened 20% levy on Chinese goods.
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