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Nov 12, 2024
Art Institute names tech billionaire, Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky as board chairman
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Nov 12, 2024
The move on Monday comes as a hedge fund presses Southwest to increase profits and boost the stock price, which has fallen sharply since early 2021.
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Nov 12, 2024
The Chicago Bears are reconsidering the former Michael Reese Hospital site as a potential location for a new stadium, a source said, but the team remains focused on the lakefront.
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Nov 12, 2024
The local alderman says Aldi's closing in Chicago's West Pullman leaves the South Side neighborhood with no grocery store options.
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Nov 12, 2024
After nearly two years of waiting, a grand opening for the new Fresh Market store on Route 59 in Naperville will be held Wednesday.
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Nov 12, 2024
Address: 849 Sheridan Road, Wilmette Listed: Oct. 28, 2024 Price: $2,949,000 This six-bedroom home has 6½ baths, an attached two-car garage, a finished third level and a finished basement with a fitness room, a wine cellar, a bedroom, a full bath and a recreation room. The home has a glass-enclosed, custom-built staircase, white oak floors […]
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Nov 11, 2024
As money continues to pour into crypto following Donald Trump's victory last week, bitcoin has climbed to yet another record high.
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Nov 11, 2024
Wind Creek Chicago Southland casino opened its doors on Veterans Day, with huge crowds in East Hazel Crest/Homewood.
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Nov 11, 2024
Metra Rail purchased the Harvey warehouse in 2020 and has already spent $17.9 million on the former Wickes Furniture site.
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Nov 11, 2024
Ultimately, machine learning might become as revolutionary as the tractor itself if it delivers on the promise of offering trusted, data-driven recommendations that lead to lasting benefits for farmers, animals and the land.
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Nov 10, 2024
In Jackson Park Highlands, Brown in 2016 paid $537,000 through an opaque land trust for the house.
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Nov 10, 2024
In Jackson Park Highlands, Brown in 2016 paid $537,000 through an opaque land trust for the house.
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Nov 10, 2024
Experts have widely considered President Joe Biden to be the most pro-labor president in modern history.
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Nov 09, 2024
Homebuilder D.R. Horton is progressing on its Oak Ridge development east of Tinley Park's downtown, with a mix of town houses and single-family homes
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Nov 08, 2024
With a new casino opening less than 10 miles across the Indiana-Illinois border, one gaming analyst said Northwest Indiana's industry has expected this for decades. "They've been talking about this for about 20 or 30 years," Ed Feigenbaum said. "It's kind of a surprise this didn't happen sooner." Wind Creek's Chicago Southland Casino is set to open Monday in Homewood, Illinois, which is about 30 minutes west of both Horseshoe Hammond Casino and Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana in Gary. Crews started work on the Chicago Southland casino in September 2022. The new casino is set to span 75,000 square […]
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Nov 08, 2024
The rules are simple, but the penalties for failure to withdraw on time are huge — 25% of the amount that should have been withdrawn for 2024!
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Nov 08, 2024
A national coffee chain is breaking records with the launch of its first Naperville location. But that's not the only local debut making its mark on the city this fall, with a new cannabis dispensary due to open later this month, a dog grooming business opening its doors Friday and a Wheaton orthodontist expanding its offices.
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Nov 08, 2024
The buzz at Abt: Honey bees and recycling ‘Anything that the company can do to share nature with people, that's what it's about' The latest buzz at Abt in Glenview is what's new at 1200 N. Milwaukee Ave., be it graffiti exterior pop art or the funky new wall of 24 older televisions of chunky sizes installed at an outside entrance and displaying changeable TV screen images. Indoors, consumers can shop for the thinnest versions of the latest televisions. Or, cumbersome television sets of 1990s yesteryear can be found at Abt's Recycling Center where machinery helps human hands do […]
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Nov 08, 2024
Coffee company Starbucks has officially brought back its holiday offerings to the menu, accompanied by a handful of new drinks and foods for the season.
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Nov 08, 2024
The 3,500-square-foot space, tucked in next to a Levi's store and mall anchor Macy's at the nexus of the shopping promenade, quietly opened two weeks ago.
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Nov 08, 2024
Built in 2020 by builder Scott Lyon & Co. and designed by architect Paul Konstant, the mansion sits on the site of a mansion that was built in 1991 for the late philanthropists Ann and Robert Lurie.
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Nov 07, 2024
About 1,100 workers at the Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio, are facing layoffs early next year as the company takes further steps to cut high inventory at dealerships.
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Nov 07, 2024
With just five days until its tentative planned opening, a south suburban casino is still awaiting final state approval before it can open its doors to the public. Wind Creek Hospitality officials said Thursday they still aim to open Monday, though that timeline is contingent on final approval from the Illinois Gaming Board. "We have to prove that we're competent casino operators and, if we do, I think we'll get the green light to open on a date that we want," said Roger Kuehn, executive vice president and general manager of Wind Creek Chicago Southland. "And my preferred date is […]
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Nov 07, 2024
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter-point in response to the steady decline in the once-high inflation that had angered Americans and helped drive Donald Trump's presidential election victory this week.
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Nov 07, 2024
The holidays officially begin this week — at least at Starbucks — when the coffee chain rolls out its annual seasonal cups.
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Nov 07, 2024
There are no easy solutions to the world's biggest problems like climate change, air pollution and providing clean drinking water for everyone. But a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Skokie is dedicated to addressing them through a new generation of materials, products and techniques. The nonprofit UL Research Institutes, a world leader in safety science, opened the doors of its newest facility in Skokie on September 12. The 19,366-square-foot Material Discoveries Research Institute (MDRI), located in the Illinois Science Technology Park at 8045 Lamon Ave., is designed to be one of the world's top facilities for research involving energy creation […]
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Nov 07, 2024
Address: 1633 W. Winona St., Chicago Price: $1,350,000 Listing date: Sept. 26, 2024 This former two-flat is now a six-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home with restored vintage woodwork, a new roof, windows, plumbing, walls and a two-car garage. On the first floor is an open floor plan dining area and living space with a quartz breakfast […]
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Nov 06, 2024
Known as Eagle Nest Manor, the estate long has been owned by Michele Giambrone and her late husband William, who cofounded Platinum Home Mortgage.
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Nov 06, 2024
4Front Ventures opens its cannabis cultivation facility in Matteson, supporting the production of more than 10 in-house brands.
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Nov 06, 2024
The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk's Tesla, banks and bitcoin are storming higher as investors bet on what Donald Trump's return to the White House will mean for the economy and world.
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Nov 06, 2024
A development group backed by the Ozinga family wants to burrow several hundred feet beneath a contaminated former steel mill site and create a six million-square-foot underground storage facility called the Invert.
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Nov 06, 2024
A development group backed by the Ozinga family wants to burrow several hundred feet beneath a contaminated former steel mill site and create a six million-square-foot underground storage facility called the Invert.
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Nov 06, 2024
A development group backed by the Ozinga family wants to burrow several hundred feet beneath a contaminated former steel mill site and create a six million-square-foot underground storage facility called the Invert.
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Nov 05, 2024
Frank's Freshway Market customers shouldn't be surprised if they spot co-owner Frank Casaccio stocking shelves at the new South Elgin grocery store that occupies the former Butera Market location. It's just part of the job when you're an independence grocer.
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Nov 05, 2024
The new policy requires workers to be in the office five days a week, an increase from the current three-day-a-week mandate that has been in place since May 2023.
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Nov 05, 2024
Chef Paul Virant is joining kitchen luminaries who worked at Everest for a tribute to Chef Jean Joho and his iconic Chicago restaurant.
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Nov 05, 2024
Minnesota was once a golden land of oat farmers. Rotated with corn and soybean on small diversified farms stretching from Wisconsin to the Dakotas, oats were traded as early as 1877 on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Nov 05, 2024
Address: 608 Stonegate Terrace, Glencoe Price: $3,595,000 This six-bedroom stone and clapboard home in Glencoe has a first floor primary suite with two walk-in closets, an en suite bath with Calacatta marble details, and pickled pine wood in an office that opens to a patio. The house also has seven full bathrooms and two half-baths. […]
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Nov 05, 2024
Unionized machinists at Boeing voted Monday to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the aerospace giant to resume production of its bestselling airliner and generate much-needed cash.
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Nov 04, 2024
Unionized factory workers at Boeing were voting Monday whether to accept a contract offer or to extend their strike, which has lasted more than seven weeks and shut down production of most Boeing passenger planes.
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Nov 04, 2024
People must enroll in plans by Dec. 15 if they want coverage to start Jan. 1.
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Nov 04, 2024
The pilot program, called Smart Streets, uses cameras on eight city vehicles to enforce parking violations.
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Nov 04, 2024
It's one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too.
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Nov 04, 2024
Owners, Joe and Tonya Regiro announced on Facebook they were closing Bourbons Smokehouse in New Lenox after more than two years.
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Nov 04, 2024
The transit authority is adding service on each of its eight rail lines on all days of the week.
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Nov 04, 2024
Recent attacks on transit drivers offer snapshot into an issue that has long been a concern on transit, and could have far reaching implications for employees, riders and the systems themselves.
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Nov 04, 2024
From 2021 to 2022, estimated annual electric vehicle sales increased 65%. In the most recent quarter of this year, year-over-year growth was about 11%.
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Nov 03, 2024
No one knows how Tuesday's presidential election will turn out, but the Federal Reserve's move two days later is much easier to predict: With inflation continuing to cool, the Fed is set to cut interest rates for a second time this year.
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Nov 03, 2024
The legal battles have raised questions about the science of feeding preterm infants and the responsibilities of U.S. regulators when it comes to the safety of formula products.
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Nov 03, 2024
Ald. Brian Hopkins opposed the dispensary's location, citing concerns about traffic and a lack of parking.
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Nov 02, 2024
Warren Buffett is now sitting on more than $325 billion cash after continuing to unload billions of dollars worth of Apple and Bank of America shares this year and continuing to collect a steady stream of profits from all of Berkshire Hathaway's assorted businesses without finding any major acquisitions.
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Nov 01, 2024
Smith played for the Indiana Pacers for parts of three seasons before signing a three-year, $27 million contract with the Bulls in July.
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Nov 01, 2024
About 1,700 University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics nurses plan to go on an open-ended strike Nov. 13. The strike would be the second time the nurses have walked off the job since August.
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Nov 01, 2024
Reconstruction of the 1.2 million-square-foot structure began last spring, and the company plans to move into the building in 2026.
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Nov 01, 2024
Kamala Harris' campaign is actively warning business leaders that Donald Trump has a pattern of disregard for democracy and the rule of law that would threaten U.S. economic growth.
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Nov 01, 2024
Wendy's plans to close 140 U.S. restaurants before the end of this year on top of the 100 it said it would close in May.
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Nov 01, 2024
The decision marked the first victory for Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson Nutrition in their battle over allegations that their formulas for premature babies cause an intestinal disease.
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Nov 01, 2024
Next week's presidential election isn't just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It's also a measure of the influence the world's richest man wields over American democracy.
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Nov 01, 2024
America's employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.
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Nov 01, 2024
For months, Trader Joe's and the union fought over whether a single ballot was valid. Last month, a labor board official recommended Hewitt's ballot be opened and counted. This week, Trader Joe's appealed that decision.
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Oct 31, 2024
The consent decree, filed Thursday in Chicago federal court, settles a two-year-old lawsuit brought by the U.S. attorney's office alleging the renovation of Wrigley Field violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by relegating fans who use wheelchairs to some of the worst seats in the house.
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Oct 31, 2024
It's been a month since the Chicago Sports Network launched, and the Comcast blackout is starting to get real for increasingly frustrated fans.
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Oct 31, 2024
The cancer hospital will be named the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, and is slated to open in 2027.
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Oct 31, 2024
Address: 111 E. Bellevue Place, Chicago Price: $3,350,000 Listed: Sept. 23, 2024 This four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home has a foyer with twin arched doorways and floor-to-ceiling windows. On the first floor is the living room with coffered ceilings, oak flooring and a terrace overlooking Bellevue Place. The kitchen has white Carrara marble counters and backsplash, custom […]
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Oct 30, 2024
Banking and credit groups opposed to an Illinois law banning certain credit card fees are asking a federal judge for a preliminary injunction.
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Oct 30, 2024
Whether you have a stand-alone Part D drug plan or your drug coverage comes with your Advantage all-in-one plan, you must do a review. (Note that not all Advantage Plans include drug coverage, and if you're in Advantage without drugs, you cannot buy a separate Part D plan!)
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Oct 30, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration said 90 people across 13 states have fallen ill in the outbreak, up from 75 at the end of last week. The number of people hospitalized increased by five, to 27 people. One death has been tied to the outbreak.
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Oct 30, 2024
City workers who are members of SEIU Local 73 bargain their contracts jointly with city employees who are members of IBEW Local 21.
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Oct 30, 2024
On Wednesday, Han became the sixth person sentenced in the saga over Outcome Health, which was once one of the most talked-about tech companies in Chicago.
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Oct 30, 2024
The funding for Chicago represents a slice of the $72 million HUD funds allocated nationally for youth homelessness.
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Oct 30, 2024
The funding for Chicago represents a slice of the $72 million HUD funds allocated nationally for youth homelessness.
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Oct 30, 2024
Blue Island officials consider a plan to use a former landfill site at 119th Street and Vincennes Road to host a Cook County Fair.
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Oct 30, 2024
The national organization for the Baha'i Faith, which oversees the landmark Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, paid $1.515 million on Oct. 3 for a vintage four-bedroom, all-brick, Mediterranean-inspired house on Sheridan Road in Wilmette that is south of its campus. The transaction is the latest home purchase by the nonprofit National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, which since 2014 now has paid $8.97 million ((CQ- OR we can say "almost $9 million") to buy six houses on the block immediately south of its campus. Since it was completed in 1953, the Bah'ai House […]
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Oct 30, 2024
Many buyers and sellers are still staying put, as uncertainties remain around mortgage rates, real estate agent commissions and the upcoming election.
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Oct 29, 2024
With a month until Turkey Day arrives, Walmart, Target and grocery chains are already putting Thanksgiving meal food and supplies on sale. Earlier this month, Walmart boasted its "inflation-free" turkey and sides will be less expensive than last year, with turkeys starting at 88 cents a pound and dinner costing less than $7 per person. On Monday, Target trotted out a similar deal, with a $20 Thanksgiving four-person meal special down $5 from last year and turkeys priced at 79 cents a pound — 20% lower than last year. Both retailers are ensuring grocery prices remain a key topic well […]
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Oct 29, 2024
Kathryn Choi is the fifth former Outcome employee or leader to be sentenced in recent months. Choi pleaded guilty in 2020 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a plea deal.
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Oct 29, 2024
Metra, state and local officials celebrate reopening of 147th Street/Sibley Boulevard station in Harvey after two-year closure.
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Oct 29, 2024
The layoffs come as Walgreens works to turn around its business, aiming to focus more on its retail pharmacy efforts.
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Oct 29, 2024
The Coalition for Permanent Standard Time in Darien says permanent standard time would provide long term health and safety benefits.
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Oct 29, 2024
Value meals helped turn around McDonald's U.S. sales in the third quarter with customers smarting from higher prices all over, but that recovery could be dented in the final months of the year by an E. coli outbreak tied to the company's Quarter Pounder hamburgers.
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Oct 29, 2024
This six-bedroom, 8½-bathroom house at 123 Melrose Ave. in Kenilworth features a saltwater pool among its outdoor amenities.
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Oct 29, 2024
Peoples Gas refuted many of the report's findings, including the remaining cost.
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Oct 28, 2024
A strike date has not yet been set, nor has it been decided how long a strike might last.
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Oct 28, 2024
Scott will be replaced for the time being by Angela Hurlock, current chairperson of the board, as CHA searches for her replacement.
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Oct 28, 2024
The Teamsters allege the sudden closure violates the workers' collective bargaining agreement with PepsiCo as well as the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires 60 days' advance notice of certain mass layoffs and plant closures.
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Oct 28, 2024
Built in 1910, the house has 4 ½ bathrooms, three gas fireplaces and an updated front porch.
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Oct 28, 2024
Built in 1910, the house has 4-1/2 bathrooms, three gas fireplaces and an updated front porch.
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Oct 27, 2024
The crowd cheered Saturday outside the new Toys "R" Us at Harlem Irving Plaza in Norridge when mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe helped cut the ribbon during the grand opening of the toy store - marking a reprisal of the iconic retailer after it first filed bankruptcy in 2017 and shuttered stores nationwide by 2021. "We want to be where the customers are, and this is a cool, magical place. You can see families, moms, dads, and grandparents came. And Chicago is magical," said Alex Winkelman, executive vice president of business development with Austin, Texas-based parent company Go! Retail Group. Hours […]
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Oct 27, 2024
Will County-based Other Side Investigations travels throughout the Midwest to look into reports of hauntings and other phenomena.
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Oct 26, 2024
Billionaire Michael Krasny, the founder of the CDW computer-sales empire, on Friday placed his three-bedroom, 4,200-square-foot condominium unit on the 50th floor of the Park Tower on Michigan Avenue on the Gold Coast on the market for $3.4 million. In the early 1980s, Krasny, 71, formed what became CDW, and he took the company public […]
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Oct 26, 2024
The technology alerts gate agents with an audible sound if a passenger tries to scan a ticket ahead of their assigned group.
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Oct 25, 2024
In a strongly worded letter to Valparaiso University's Board of Directors, Richard Brauer demanded his name be removed from the Brauer Museum of Art if any of three cornerstone paintings are sold to fund dorm renovations, and called the move to sell the paintings by José Padilla, the university's president, a "desperate action by a desperate man."
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Oct 25, 2024
Many other Chicago-area viewers, including Comcast subscribers, remain unable to tune in since the new regional sports network hit the airwaves Oct. 1.
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Oct 25, 2024
Many other Chicago-area viewers, including Comcast subscribers, remain unable to tune in since the new regional sports network hit the airwaves Oct. 1.
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Oct 25, 2024
Pace Suburban Bus launched reservation-based On Demand bus service Oct. 7, serving Lansing, Calumet City and South Holland.
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Oct 25, 2024
The types of bets being prohibited are feared to be too liable to manipulation by any one player, coach or referee.
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Oct 25, 2024
The types of bets being prohibited are feared to be too liable to manipulation by any one player, coach or referee.
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Oct 25, 2024
A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday.
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Oct 25, 2024
Southwest announced the shakeup as it reported that its third-quarter profit fell by nearly two-thirds.
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Oct 24, 2024
The settlement comes a month after the Justice Department sued the ship's owner Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and manager Synergy Marine Group, both based in Singapore, seeking to recover funds from the cleanup.
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