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Jamon Lynch cuts into a wall and Billy Hall stands by with a crow bar as they deconstruct a house on Oct. 12, 2016.

Arne Duncan: Police can’t stop Chicago’s violence, business community must step up

June 9, 2018 at 10:48 a.m.

Arne Duncan has been spending time recently at Cook County Jail. The former U.S. education secretary goes to talk to "the shooters," he said, to get their input on how...

Graduate students wait in line Nov. 6, 2014, at a table run by Abbot Laboratories during a job fair at the University of Chicago on the South Side.

Employer-driven jobs program aims to prove it improves people’s lives

June 9, 2018 at 11:09 a.m.

A consistent challenge in workforce development is figuring out what works — and that means not just tracking how many people a program has placed into jobs, but whether their...

The National Labor Relations Board's Chicago regional office filed a complaint against on-demand delivery service Postmates alleging labor violations against its drivers.

NLRB complaint against Postmates raises specter of fight over employee classification

June 9, 2018 at 11:20 a.m.

The Chicago regional office of the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against on-demand delivery service Postmates last week alleging labor violations against its drivers, raising a question that...

Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, right, shown here in January 2014, speaks while College Athletes Players Association President Ramogi Huma, listens during a news conference in Chicago. The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a historic ruling that Northwestern University football players are school employees who are entitled to form what would be the nation's first union of college athletes.

Northwestern modifies handbook to treat football players like employees

June 9, 2018 at 11:46 a.m.

Northwestern University may not consider its football players to be employees, but it changed provisions in its handbook to treat them as such, avoiding legal action by the National Labor...

Richard Green, of Matteson, a computer science student at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights does his homework and waits for classes at Student Veterans Center on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016.

Why lower-income students are drawn to for-profit schools

June 9, 2018 at 1:10 p.m.

Richard Green graduated from high school 20 years ago, eager to get a college degree in computer science and launch a career. So when a recruiter from what was then...

A worker hangs a store closing banner on Sept. 23, 2016, on the front of the Kmart store in Tinley Park, at 163rd and Harlem Avenue, where liquidation sales are underway.

Kmart, Ticketmaster layoffs among nearly 800 reported to state in September

June 9, 2018 at 1:04 p.m.

Kmart alerted the state of plans to lay off 274 workers at two retail locations as it begins previously announced store closures in the state. The Kmart job cuts, scheduled...

Cook County Board Commissioner Bridget Gainer, seen here in the Cook County Board Room in October 2012, co-sponsored the paid sick leave legislation with Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and seven other commissioners.

Cook County approves paid sick leave law, bringing suburbs in line with city

June 9, 2018 at 1:46 p.m.

The Cook County Board voted Wednesday to require that employers give workers paid sick time, bringing the suburbs in line with a Chicago law approved in June. The county ordinance,...

Non-dairy, butter, yogurt and kefir items on display at the new Whole Foods at Englewood Square shopping center in Chicago on Sept. 27, 2016.

Englewood hopes Starbucks, Whole Foods create ‘ripple effect’

June 12, 2018 at 10:38 a.m.

When Sophelia Baptiste helps open Englewood's first Starbucks Wednesday, the new barista will be thinking of her brother — a caramel macchiato fan who she said also dreamed of working...

Downstate limps along as job growth concentrates in northern Illinois

June 15, 2018 at 4:07 a.m.

Unemployment rates dropped in August in nearly all Illinois metro areas compared with the year before, but job growth was concentrated in northern parts of the state while much of...

Celena Roldan, CEO of the American Red Cross of Chicago and Northern Illinois, is photographed Sept. 14, 2016, at the Red Cross' Chicago office. The nonprofit covers 21 counties with the aid of 3,000 volunteers.

In busy year for disasters, new Red Cross CEO eyes next generation of volunteers

June 12, 2018 at 4:42 a.m.

Celena Roldan has vivid childhood memories of her dad, head of the Hispanic Housing Development Corp., dragging her to ribbon-cuttings at affordable housing projects, and of her mom, now a...

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