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The suburban natural gas supplier says a massive hike is needed for critical infrastructure work.
The British toymaker behind the cuddly “jellies” stuffed toys opens its permanent store in Chicago to a long line and much fanfare.
Mr. Coffey had a unique way of promoting the plant-based products produced by his company, OMI Industries.
Almost $600 million in promised grants to businesses and local governments rescinded. The moves are politically motivated, say both Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin.
More than $855 million in taxpayer money will be needed to prep the old Arlington International Racecourse site for a stadium. But the team argues it’ll boost the economy for generations to come.
Employees of cabinetmaker Reveal Interiors complain that tear gas has seeped into its plant and employees have been hit by pepper balls. A fence erected by ICE has pushed protesters onto its property, disrupting work.
Serve Robotics, out of Los Angeles, is set to launch its fleet of bots in the city on Sept. 30.
Alicia Mandujano — one of 16 people people indicted after the bank’s collapse in 2017 — was sentenced Monday to two years of supervised release, including 12 months of home detention.
Elizabeth Abunaw, the force behind the West Side’s new grocery store, says her industry is not for the faint of heart.
Six men are accused of breaking windows and stealing $175,500 worth of luxury watches Friday afternoon, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said. They were ordered detained.
“Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the company said Tuesday as it reversed its redesign. The company is trying to refresh its image and menu as same-store sales for 2024 slipped. President Donald Trump joined calls protesting the new design.
Son of Applebee’s restaurant tycoon is a deadbeat dad, feds say. Evan Musikantow says he’s a victim.
Musikantow is accused of failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support since his 2003 divorce in Chicago.
Large data centers working on artificial intelligence that need water for cooling could drain area water supplies, a Great Lakes advocacy group warns.
After scrapping a minority investment requirement, Bally’s has completed sale of about $250 million in shares, most of them going to about a thousand Chicagoans.
Insurers are raising rates. State officials are pushing back.
Critics call it union-busting. A local labor leader says the president’s action puts public health and environmental protections at risk.
Volunteers with the Highland Park Peace Project want to tell consumers about businesses that are enabling and preventing gun violence — and encourage them to spend accordingly.
But mayor’s talk of reinstating a $4-a-month per employee head tax and taxing corporate payroll will only stifle the economic growth Chicago needs to dig itself out of a deep financial hole, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce President Jack Lavin said.
The tagline for Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet — “Where you always save more money” — made him and his partner Nick Celozzi instantly recognizable and became a part of Chicago pop culture.