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Wheeling-based Evanger’s recalls dog food over fears it may contain euthanasia drug

July 1, 2019 at 4:43 a.m.

A Wheeling-based pet food-maker is voluntarily recalling some of its dog food over concerns that it might contain a sedative used to euthanize animals. Several dogs in Washington state became...

Construction begins on tallest tower west of Kennedy Expressway

June 6, 2018 at 2:32 a.m.

Construction is underway on a luxury skyscraper that will be the tallest building in the city west of the Kennedy Expressway. Co-developers Fifield Cos. and Skokie-based F&F Realty recently broke...

Hoping for ‘adrenaline boost’ in flagging neighborhoods, Cook County selling more than 4,000 vacant lots

June 6, 2018 at 2:58 a.m.

Aiming to curb Chicago's vacant lot epidemic, the Cook County Land Bank Authority has made more than 4,000 once tax-delinquent vacant lots available for sale. The 4,437 properties are available...

Boating industry goes after millennials with high-tech, tricked-out crafts

August 18, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

Die-hard water-skier and wake-boarder Jay Fieser has his sights set on buying a boat in a few years but the super-tricked-out, six-figure models he's been eyeing just aren't in the...

Brenda Barnes, then CEO of Sara Lee Corp., speaks at a 2007 luncheon at the Chicago Hilton in downtown Chicago. Barnes died Jan. 17, 2017.

Brenda Barnes, former Sara Lee and Pepsi-Cola CEO, dies in Naperville at 63

June 6, 2018 at 7:11 a.m.

Former Sara Lee CEO Brenda Barnes, a longtime executive perhaps best known for putting her career in the executive ranks on hold to focus on her family, has died. She...

Maryam Banikarim, chief marketing officer of Hyatt Hotels Corp., is photographed Jan. 11, 2017, at the Hyatt offices in Chicago. Banikarim said working at Hyatt feels like joining a family.

Hyatt marketing chief says Airbnb threat is overblown

June 6, 2018 at 9:10 a.m.

Maryam Banikaram calls herself a "walking idea." That's why companies across several industries have hired her as a marketing "fixer" — the person who helps re-envision and rehab big brands....

A Southwest jet aircraft arrives for a landing at Midway Airport, at 63rd St. and Cicero Ave. in Chicago, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016.

Midway beats out O’Hare on list of on-time airports

June 6, 2018 at 11:06 a.m.

Midway Airport beat out O'Hare International Airport when it came to on-time air travel in 2016, according to analysts at OAG, which tracks timeliness in airlines and airports around the...

Sean Connolly, CEO of Conagra Brands, will be revamping Slim Jims in 2017, among other initiatives at the food company that's newly relocated to Chicago.

10 Chicago businesspeople to watch in 2017

June 8, 2018 at 1:04 p.m.

The CEO of a major health system in Illinois. A soon-to-be former secretary of commerce. An Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce executive on a mission to diversify the city's tech...

Seung-Whan Choi, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor, is photographed Dec. 28, 2016, in his Clarendon Hills home. Choi is suing UIC claiming he has been discriminated against due to his Korean ethnicity.

Professor says UIC forced him to teach statistics because he is Asian

June 8, 2018 at 12:44 p.m.

An international relations professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago has filed a lawsuit against the school, alleging he was discriminated against because he is from Korea. Seung-Whan Choi's...

Junk fax? Streamwood company files suit to end unwanted fax ads

June 8, 2018 at 9:09 p.m.

In the age of email, instant messaging and texting, faxes are as washed-up as child stars of the 1980s. But that doesn't mean faxes have disappeared entirely. One Streamwood-based electrical...

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