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Farmer's Fridge employee Lily Alquizira prepares cucumbers for a salad in 2017. Last month the Chicago startup closed a $30 million round of financing.

Google ex-CEO, AOL co-founder are putting money into Chicago companies. Here’s why.

December 12, 2018 at 7:07 a.m.

Ask Farmer’s Fridge CEO Luke Saunders about raising money from investors for a startup, and he’ll tell you it’s a numbers game: A company founder might have to talk to...

Amazon has 6,000 job openings in the Chicago area, but its job fair failed to draw large crowds

December 12, 2018 at 4:39 a.m.

Amazon is hiring more than 6,000 seasonal, part- and full-time employees at its fulfillment centers and delivery facilities in the Chicago area, but a north suburban job fair it conducted...

Juan David Garcia measures portions of a cannabis product at Cresco Labs medical marijuana cultivation facility, August 8, 2018, in Joliet.

Chicago marijuana company Cresco set to go public in Canada, raise funds for expansion here

December 12, 2018 at 4:45 a.m.

Medical marijuana company Cresco Labs is moving forward with a plan to go public in Canada, a step that will give it access to additional funds to grow its business...

Chicago Bears fans cheer before the start of a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Soldier Field on Sept. 30, 2018. Demand for Bears tickets is rising.

$236 to see the Bears? Fans find price of team’s success high on ticket market.

December 12, 2018 at 4:22 a.m.

The Chicago Bears are winning, and ticket prices on the secondhand market are jumping up with the fans. As of Monday, demand for Bears tickets is up 20 percent on...

People leave the city early on the CTA Red Line as the jury delivers the guilty verdict in the trial of Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, on Oct. 5, 2018.

CTA, Metra trains packed as Van Dyke verdict empties Loop

May 23, 2019 at 1:21 a.m.

Both CTA and Metra trains were full early this afternoon ahead of the evening rush hour with Loop businesses and government agencies telling workers to go home early because of...

Yasmin Pena trims excess leaves from cannabis plants at Cresco Labs' medical marijuana cultivation facility Aug. 8, 2018, in Joliet.

Chicago marijuana company Cresco Labs raises $100 million to fuel growth

December 12, 2018 at 3:37 a.m.

Chicago-based medical marijuana company Cresco Labs has raised $100 million in private funding to fuel continued expansion nationally and in Illinois. Cresco Labs, which operates three cultivation centers in the...

Downtown Chicago companies and building owners are beefing up security and keeping some workers at home as a jury a few miles south deliberates in the highly publicized murder trial of police Officer Jason Van Dyke.

As jury deliberates in Officer Jason Van Dyke’s murder trial, Chicago businesses brace for potential protests

December 12, 2018 at 3:35 a.m.

Downtown Chicago companies and building owners are beefing up security and keeping some workers at home as a jury a few miles south deliberates in the highly publicized murder trial...

Mark Lawrence is CEO of SpotHero, which has been named one of Time magazine's 50 "Genius Companies."

Chicago’s SpotHero, Cameo join Apple, Amazon and other tech giants on Time list of companies ‘inventing the future’

October 4, 2018 at 1:42 p.m.

Chicago-based startups SpotHero and Cameo join tech giants such Apple, Amazon and Airbnb on a new Time list of 50 “Genius Companies,” firms the magazine believes are “inventing the future.”...

A pop-up from Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar serves lunch in the Fooda food hall in the AMA Plaza building on Oct. 2, 2018. Chicago-based Fooda, launched in 2011, brings a rotating lineup of pop-up restaurants into office buildings.

Pop-up lunch service Fooda plans to triple its office space and hire 175 next year

December 12, 2018 at 2:51 a.m.

Office lunch service Fooda plans to hire 175 people next year and is preparing to move into a Chicago office nearly three times larger than its current space to accommodate...

Demonstrators protesting Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court rally outside the high court in Washington on Sept. 28, 2018.

Chicagoans tune in to watch Ford, Kavanaugh testify at Supreme Court confirmation hearing

May 23, 2019 at 1:19 a.m.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearing testimony Thursday from Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh about allegations of sexual assault, Chicagoans were tuning in — taking time out of...

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