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The pharmacy chain’s downtown employees will move to its Deerfield headquarters.
The site is an Amazon Last Mile facility, meaning it’s the final stop in the delivery process before packages arrive at customers’ doors.
The coffee chain’s website listed at least 15 stores that will shutter. Starbucks said employees will be offered transfers to other locations, if possible.
The Oak Brook-based restaurant chain known for its Chicago-style hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches has recently seen slow sales.
The museum employees have been in contract negotiations for more than two years. Workers say 90% of eligible employees voted to strike, if necessary.
The ad campaign aims to bring in 14,050 new hires to ICE, touting a signing bonus of up to $50,000 and other benefits. It coincides with President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement effort in Chicago.
Baristas in Illinois and Colorado filed class-action lawsuits against the coffee chain, and California workers filed complaints with the state’s labor and workforce agency.
The Treasury Department released a list of occupations — from barbers to social media influencers — who can get a tax break.
The Illinois Economic Development Corp.’s new report said more than 700 businesses committed to expand in or move to the state.
It’s significant as the state’s construction industry struggles to fill jobs and gears up for more expansion under the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, which sets a goal to fuel Illinois entirely by clean energy by 2050.
The lawsuit said the Chicago restaurant group and its co-founder Richard Melman staged a “corporate coup” in order to gain ownership of Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab locations.
Striking workers are demanding livable wages, safe work conditions, guaranteed break times and measures to prevent ICE agents from entering the workplace without a judicial warrant.
The Labor Department said U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs last month, well short of the 115,000 forecasters had expected. Worse, revisions shaved a stunning 258,000 jobs off May and June payrolls.
The small business is one of many stores that have shut down over the last few years on North Michigan Avenue.
Infleqtion plans to build the first utility-scale quantum computer in Illinois at the state’s quantum park and create at least 50 new jobs.
Mario Willis said in his lawsuit that he was discriminated against and faced retaliation from Amazon after witnessing a female worker sexually harass and grope another female colleague.
The Chicago-based company announced the bankruptcy weeks after sharing it would be closing its Loop headquarters.
The ordinance raises the minimum wage for tipped workers, but the Illinois Restaurant Association says the law hurts workers and businesses.
The combined companies will become the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker, and bring what analysts say is Nippon Steel’s top-notch technology to U.S. Steel’s antiquated steelmaking processes.