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Brianna Kelly, a recruiter at Glassdoor, uses her standing workstation in the company's Chicago office on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Glassdoor, a jobs recruiting and review website based in San Francisco, is expanding its Chicago office in the Fulton Market area.

Glassdoor wants to hire hundreds of workers. It’s taking more space in Fulton Market to make room for them.

July 12, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

Technology company Glassdoor is doubling its office space in the Fulton Market district, the first step toward adding hundreds of new employees. The San Francisco Bay Area company, which runs...

Visitors to Millennium Park use their cell phones on May 23, 2019.

Sprint launches 5G network in Chicago, and it reaches from Little Village to Evanston

July 11, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

Sprint launched its 5G network in Chicago on Thursday, becoming the second mobile carrier to roll out the fifth generation of wireless in the city. Though Verizon turned on its...

Fast-growing software firm ActiveCampaign doubles its footprint in the Loop as hiring spree continues

July 11, 2019 at 9:09 a.m.

Software firm ActiveCampaign is doubling its Loop footprint to accommodate a workforce that has added roughly 200 people this year. The 16-year-old company is set to take over an additional...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at a press conference on July 10, 2019 at Citigroup Center to announce Accenture's expansion of its Chicago Innovation Hub, adding 600 highly-skilled tech jobs and growing its apprenticeship program. It also bought naming rights for the building, which starting Thursday will be called Accenture Tower.

Accenture to expand in West Loop, hire 600 tech employees and put its name on office tower

July 10, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker notched their first big jobs announcement Wednesday as Accenture detailed plans to expand its West Loop office and hire 600 tech workers...

Sucursal de la Secretaría del Estado en el Centro James R. Thompson, en marzo de 2019. (Brian Cassella / baiduhai)

Inmigración usa el reconocimiento facial

July 10, 2019 at 1:05 p.m.

CHICAGO— El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE) ha utilizado la tecnología de reconocimiento facial para peinar millones de fotos de licencias de conducir, un...

People wait at the Secretary of State's driver's license facility in the Thompson Center on March 27, 2019.

ICE used facial recognition to scan driver’s license photos in some states. Illinois says it has turned down ICE requests.

July 9, 2019 at 2:40 p.m.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has used facial recognition technology to comb through millions of driver's license photos, a move experts say violates the privacy of both immigrants...

A driver fuels up at a BP gas station along Irving Park Road on July 1, 2019, in Chicago. The Illinois gas tax has doubled, from 19 cents a gallon to 38 cents.

Illinois’ gas tax hike: It’s going to hit more than motorists

July 3, 2019 at 7:03 a.m.

The state's doubling of the gas tax on Monday was evident at gas pumps last weekend, as motorists lined up to top off their tanks. But the increase in the...

Rapper Ice-T is seen Jan. 27, 2018, at a Grammy Awards event at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Cameo lets fans pay as much as $350 to receive a personal video greeting from Ice-T.

Want a birthday shoutout from rapper Ice-T? Chicago startup Cameo, which lets fans buy celebrity greetings, gets $50M to expand.

June 25, 2019 at 10:24 a.m.

Cameo, the Chicago-based startup that lets users buy personalized video shoutouts from celebrities, raised $50 million to help fuel an international expansion and further develop its app. Most of Cameo's...

Various forms of medical marijuana products are displayed June 20, 2019, inside the dispensary at FloraMedex in Elmwood Park. Medical marijuana comes in various forms including flowers, edibles, tinctures, oils, and liquids.

Want to know what it’s like inside an Illinois marijuana dispensary? Take a look.

July 29, 2019 at 11:02 a.m.

When marijuana dispensaries open their doors to recreational customers on Jan. 1, there won't be jars of buds lined up on shelves or rolled joints under glass countertops. Instead, shopping...

Google's headquarters is seen in 2013 in Mountain View, Calif. The search giant's calendar app was down June 18, 2019.

Google Calendar access restored after app goes down for users in Chicago and around the world

June 18, 2019 at 2:05 p.m.

Google says it has restored access to its calendar feature, after users in Chicago and around the world reported error messages when they tried to access the app Tuesday morning....

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