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Former West Loop restaurant owner swindled partners out of $300K, may have fled the country, feds say

December 14, 2018 at 8:08 p.m.

Federal prosecutors charged the former co-owner of Embeya, a now-shuttered Asian restaurant in the West Loop, with wire fraud Monday and are seeking his arrest. Attila Gyulai, 45, allegedly misappropriated...

Glenn Backus, center, and Michael Kaplan, co-founders of Spiral Sun Ventures, sample products in their Chicago office on Jan. 30, 2018.

Slice is back: once-popular soft drink will be rebooted as low-calorie drink sweetened with fruit juice

May 24, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.

Slice, a once-popular soft drink from the 1990s, faded into obscurity for years before being relegated to the trademark trash heap — discontinued and, for all practical purposes, dead. And...

Kraft Heinz CEO Bernardo Hees, left, speaks to Ray Buchanan of Rise Against Hunger, an international hunger relief agency, at a charity event Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency Chicago

Kraft Heinz CEO on the hunt for the company’s next big acquisition

December 14, 2018 at 7:40 p.m.

Bernardo Hees played tennis before dawn, reported for duty at Kraft Heinz’s Chicago headquarters by 8 a.m. and later Wednesday evening, delivered a pep talk to 600 or so of...

Jenn Frymark, chief greenhouse officer and a co-founder of New York City-based Gotham Greens, points to lettuce crops at the company's Chicago rooftop greenhouse on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016.

Gotham Greens plans 2nd greenhouse in Pullman for expansion

December 14, 2018 at 7:21 p.m.

Gotham Greens, a New York-based hydroponic grower of leafy greens, is planning to open a second greenhouse in Pullman to grow its business in the Chicago market. The new $12.5...

A move to allow restaurants and other employers to impose tip sharing on workers, and in some cases keep the money, is under fire from a group of state attorneys general.

Illinois attorney general: Workers would be hurt by ‘outrageous’ proposed rule change

December 14, 2018 at 7:17 p.m.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan and 16 other state attorneys general have banded together in opposition to a proposed federal rule change that they say would allow employers to pocket the...

The former Dominick's space in the South Shore neighborhood's Jeffery Plaza, seen here in 2014, is set to be taken over by Shop & Save Market.

South Shore could get long-awaited grocery store in former Dominick’s space

December 14, 2018 at 6:49 p.m.

After more than four years of waiting, the South Shore neighborhood is one step closer to having a grocery store in the space of a former Dominick’s. On Friday afternoon,...

MillerCoors sues former strategist, competitor over alleged breach of contract

December 14, 2018 at 6:40 p.m.

Chicago-based MillerCoors is suing its former top strategist for allegedly violating his contract by taking a similar job at Constellation Brands, a direct competitor. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Cook...

Hostess to buy Cloverhill facility that lost 800 workers in immigration raid

December 14, 2018 at 6:31 p.m.

Hostess Brands will acquire the Cloverhill bakery on Chicago’s Northwest Side that was the site of a massive immigration raid last year, Hostess said Thursday. Aryzta, the Swiss parent company...

Demolition continues at the McDonald's restaurant at Clark and Ontario streets in Chicago on Jan. 29, 2018. The restaurant is being modernized to include ordering kiosks and improved energy efficiency.

Former Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonald’s gets new eco-friendly look from riverwalk architect

December 14, 2018 at 6:29 p.m.

The former Rock ’n’ Roll McDonald’s will reopen in late spring with more trees and a sleeker, more contemporary design, courtesy of Carol Ross Barney, the renowned architect who co-designed...

Why a new trucking regulation is driving up the cost of produce

December 15, 2018 at 2:15 a.m.

Shoppers could see grocery prices rise because of a new federal mandate requiring most long-distance truckers to use electronic logging devices to keep track of their time spent driving. Some...

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