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A job seeker fills out an application at a 2015 job fair in Chicago. In the city, African-Americans are far more likely than whites to be unemployed or not in the labor force at all, a recent analysis says.

Employment distress worse among black residents in Chicago, study says

June 8, 2018 at 9:15 p.m.

Though the jobs plight of rural white America has been a focus of the national conversation since Donald Trump was elected president, a study shows that in Chicago employment distress...

Supporters of the Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign hold a rally at a McDonald's restaurant in the 2000 block of West Chicago Avenue early Nov. 29, 2016, in Chicago. The rally is being held on the same day airport workers at O'Hare International Airport are expected to strike.

Hundreds strike at O’Hare, but flight operations not disrupted

June 8, 2018 at 10:40 p.m.

Hundreds of workers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport spent Tuesday on strike to protest low wages, but officials said it had little impact on flight operations. The strike, organized by...

Anthony Kern tends bar at Blackbird on Nov. 10, 2016. One Off Hospitality, which owns the restaurant, is moving forward with major changes in its pay rules despite a court ruling that puts new Labor Department overtime standards on hold.

Chicago employers in limbo after court blocks Obama’s overtime pay rule

June 8, 2018 at 11:32 p.m.

Employers that have been preparing for months to comply with a major change to overtime regulations — raising salaries, implementing time-tracking tools, restructuring promotion ladders — find themselves in an...

City human services chief calls for unified effort on youth unemployment

June 8, 2018 at 11:08 p.m.

When Lisa Morrison Butler was wooed away from her nonprofit job last year to lead Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services, she worried she wouldn't find the same commitment...

Hundreds of O’Hare workers to strike next week as part of Fight for $15 protests

June 9, 2018 at 12:05 a.m.

A strike planned for Nov. 29 at Chicago O'Hare International Airport will miss the Thanksgiving holiday's busiest travel days and coincide with a nationwide day of protests that the Fight...

Zandra Cross, co-owner of Love Christian Center in Kankakee, Il., works in her store Nov. 15, 2016. Cross says her customers were happy Trump won but is not sure whether a recent sales boost has anything to do with the election.

Will grieving Hillary Clinton supporters spend more this holiday season?

June 7, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

After Thanksgiving — assuming families survive the political standoffs expected to plague dinner tables across the country — America will officially launch its annual shopping spree, saddled not only with...

O’Hare workers threaten to strike during busy Thanksgiving week

June 9, 2018 at 1:26 a.m.

Workers at O'Hare International Airport are threatening to strike during the busy Thanksgiving travel week to draw attention to their fight for a $15 hourly wage and what they feel...

Paul Gustab, a volunteer for Hillary Clinton's campaign, reacts to the news that Donald Trump won the presidential election early on Nov. 9, 2016, at Moe's Cantina in Chicago.

Chicago companies grapple with workers’ election-related emotion

August 21, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

The somber mood was palpable when Neal Sales-Griffin arrived at the office Wednesday, hours after Donald Trump won the presidential election most pollsters had predicted he would not. Several of...

Workers assemble vehicles in 2012 at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' plant in Belvidere. Production of the Jeep Cherokee will be moved to Belvidere in 2017 and that change is triggering some layoffs by parts suppliers, though city officials expect the moves ultimately will result in a net jobs gain.

Belvidere auto parts suppliers warn of layoffs, town expects net jobs gain

June 9, 2018 at 5:09 a.m.

As Fiat Chrysler Automobiles retools its assembly plant in Belvidere to produce the Jeep Cherokee, four auto parts suppliers that don't have contracts for the car reported they are shutting...

Lenita Edgeworth picks up her daughter Ellie, 9, from Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Oak Park on Nov. 3, 2016. Edgeworth, 38, can't afford to enroll her daughter in morning child care.

How much would Clinton’s, Trump’s plans relieve high cost of child care?

June 9, 2018 at 5:15 a.m.

Ashley Ingram was excited to be expecting her second child. But one night when she and her then-husband were chatting about baby names, she recalls, she burst into tears at...

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