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J.B. Pritzker attendsan event in his honor at Northwestern University's School of Law in Chicago on Oct. 22, 2015.

How should Trump help Chicago companies? Execs share ideas

June 6, 2018 at 8:20 a.m.

Defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Appoint more outsiders to the administration. Expand funding for electric grid modernization. Those were among the suggestions offered by Chicago-area business people when the...

Loaves of bread cool in 2003 on automated cooling racks being tested at the Gonnella Baking facility in Aurora. The company has settled a federal lawsuit that alleged that a worker at the Aurora plant suffered racial harassment.

Gonnella Baking pays $30,000 to settle racial harassment case

June 6, 2018 at 9:08 a.m.

Gonnella Baking, the Schaumburg-based bread-maker founded in 1886, has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a...

The First Midwest Bank branch on the 400 block of South Route 59 in Aurora on Jan. 19, 2016.

First Midwest Bank parent moving HQ to Chicago

June 6, 2018 at 11:31 a.m.

Itasca-based First Midwest Bancorp is moving its headquarters, including about 300 workers, to Chicago. The publicly traded parent of First Midwest Bank, which has 110 branches in Illinois, Indiana and...

Nation’s bedbug capital is no longer Chicago, Orkin says

June 6, 2018 at 11:25 a.m.

Some good news for Chicago: It's no longer the bedbug capital of the nation. In its annual ranking, released Tuesday, pest-control services provider Orkin said Baltimore tops its annual list...

The Cambria hotel at 166 E. Superior St., seen Dec. 12, 2016, is one of two Cambria hotels set for downtown Chicago. About $14 million will be spent to renovate the Superior Street property, formerly the MileNorth Hotel, from February to June. A second Cambria hotel is slated to open anove the Oriental Theatre on West Randolph Street.

Chicago to get more hotel rooms in 2017 — perhaps too many

June 8, 2018 at 12:42 p.m.

Chicago will host more major conventions in 2017, but the local hotel market could still find itself tested with as many as 3,000 additional guest rooms coming online, raising concern...

Trucking executive sentenced to 70 months in prison for wire fraud, tax evasion

June 8, 2018 at 12:33 p.m.

A St. Charles man who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and income tax evasion was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison Wednesday over actions he took after buying a...

A new state law taking effect in January will make it easier for previously barred health care workers and first-time applicants with felony convictions to once again become eligible for an Illinois license.

New law makes it easier for felons to get Illinois health care licenses

June 8, 2018 at 12:41 p.m.

A new state law taking effect in January will make it easier for previously barred health care workers and first-time applicants with felony convictions to once again become eligible for...

TreeHouse Foods expands recall of macaroni and cheese cups over salmonella risk

June 8, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.

A voluntary recall of certain macaroni and cheese cup products made by an Oak Brook-based manufacturer and potentially contaminated with salmonella has been expanded to include more best-by dates. TreeHouse...

David Barton Gym founder David Barton is photographed March 17, 2016, at an event in New York City. The Chicago location of Barton's namesake gym has been closed.

‘Upscale’ David Barton Gym closes in River North, files for bankruptcy

June 8, 2018 at 1:26 p.m.

David Barton Gym has closed in Chicago's River North neighborhood, with its owner filing for bankruptcy and citing "severe competitive pressures." Club Ventures, which owns and runs David Barton Gym...

The Chicago bookstore that sells autographs of Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln

June 8, 2018 at 5:15 p.m.

Earlier this year, after 26 years in Chicago's River North neighborhood, Daniel Weinberg moved his Abraham Lincoln Book Shop to River West. It's a little farther from downtown, but "I'm...

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