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Watching the high-stakes election returns Tuesday may not have been good for stress levels, but it was good for alcohol sales. Booze delivery services, which have proliferated in recent years, reported notable bumps in orders as Chicagoans sat nervously glued to their TVs.

How did Chicagoans watch Tuesday night’s election returns? With a lot of wine

December 11, 2018 at 9:01 p.m.

Watching the high-stakes election returns Tuesday may not have been good for stress levels, but it was good for alcohol sales. Booze delivery services, which have proliferated in recent years,...

Duncan Hines recalls cake mix amid salmonella concerns

December 11, 2018 at 8:11 p.m.

Conagra Brands has recalled four varieties of Duncan Hines cake mix as authorities investigate possible salmonella contamination at one of the food giant's manufacturing plants. Customers who purchased Duncan Hines'...

Larry Kudlow, economic adviser to President Donald Trump, spoke to the Economic Club of Chicago Friday. Kudlow, pictured here in Washington, D.C., is in the midst of a multicity tour.

Trump economic adviser says good economy is ‘not a sugar high’ during Chicago visit

August 22, 2019 at 9:43 a.m.

Larry Kudlow, economic adviser to President Donald Trump, spoke to the Economic Club of Chicago on Friday, his latest stop in a multicity tour in which he is making the...

Arielle Sheppard-Potts, left, toasts with partner Patricia Brown Holmes, during a pop-up happy hour at the law firm of Riley Safer Holmes and Cancila on Sept. 18, 2018. Homes said the firm's meetings always include food, and sometimes champagne.

How to hold meetings people love (or at least don’t hate)

June 5, 2019 at 7:42 p.m.

Meetings have a reputation — at times deservedly so — as unproductive time-sucks. They’re too long, too frequent, too boring, too aimless, and sometimes so irrelevant that the time feels...

Elias Kasongo works at his desk at Eli's Cheesecake headquarters in Dunning. Kasongo, a refuge from Congo, started at Eli's 24 years ago washing dishes.

10 percent of Eli’s Cheesecake employees are refugees — but now there are fewer available to hire

December 11, 2018 at 7:16 p.m.

After fleeing the war in her native Bosnia, Zemira Bajrektarevic arrived in Chicago to face a new set of fears. A stay-at-home mom of two children, Bajrektarevic didn’t know English....

Chicago's City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the creation of an office dedicated to enforcing the city's minimum wage, paid sick time and anti-wage theft laws.

Chicago to create office that will enforce city’s minimum wage, sick leave laws

August 22, 2019 at 9:42 a.m.

The Chicago City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the creation of an office dedicated to enforcing the city’s minimum wage, paid sick time and anti-wage theft laws. The Office of...

Workers from Cambria Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel in Chicago picket outside of the hotel on Oct. 23, 2018. UNITE Here Local 1 has filed a lawsuit against the City of Chicago for keeping striking workers from making noise as they picket outside the hotel.

Hotel worker union sues city for allegedly prohibiting strikers from making noise while they picket

December 12, 2018 at 9:51 a.m.

The union representing Chicago’s striking hotel workers has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and police department, alleging noise restrictions imposed on picketers violate their First Amendment rights. The...

Entrance to the mill shop at Lee Lumber lumberyard in Chicago on Oct. 18, 2018.

Lee Lumber closes after 66 years, the ‘end of an era’

December 12, 2018 at 9:31 a.m.

Since word got out about the closure of Lee Lumber, the largest family-owned lumberyard in Chicago, co-owner Randy Baumgarten has fielded grateful notes from longtime customers, emotional hugs from employees,...

Machine operator Matt Mollema inspects parts before feeding them to robots for sorting at Kay Manufacturing, an automotive parts company in Calumet City.

Manufacturers adopt robots that help human workers, not replace them. For now.

December 12, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.

During more than 25 years as a factory worker, David Young has seen a parade of robots take over tasks he and his colleagues used to do by hand. So...

Hotel workers walk the picket line outside of the Cambria Chicago Magnificent Mile hotel in Chicago on Sept. 11, 2018.

Cambria is last holdout as hotel strike crawls to an end after nearly five weeks

December 12, 2018 at 5:02 a.m.

Chicago’s hotel strike is down to one holdout after employees at the Kinzie Hotel in River North ratified a contract Thursday, nearly five weeks after the walkout began. Workers at...

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