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This March 26, 2014, photo shows an entrance of a Mars production facility near Topeka, Kan. Mars Wrigley Confectionery's U.S. headquarters will be in New Jersey, the company announced.

City loses out on Mars Wrigley U.S. candy headquarters; 200 Chicago jobs likely headed to N.J.

December 17, 2018 at 5:01 p.m.

Mars Wrigley Confectionery will base its new U.S. headquarters at two sites in New Jersey, and not Chicago, the company announced Tuesday. Mars Wrigley will keep its global headquarters in...

John Bouman, president of Chicago-based Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty, said he's troubled by the fact that just 1 in 4 minimum wage violation complaints are investigated by the city of Chicago.

Chicago raised its minimum wage two years ago, but some still earn less. Here’s why.

December 17, 2018 at 4:43 p.m.

Maria Leon, a single mother of three and longtime Gage Park resident, says she worked for years in two Chicago restaurants for less than the city’s minimum wage. Last year,...

No tears for end of Cook County soda tax — and no more pop runs to Indiana

December 17, 2018 at 4:33 p.m.

Since Cook County’s sweetened beverage tax went into effect, Ida White has been driving just over the Indiana border to meet her sister, who lives in South Bend, to make...

Chris Kempczinski, McDonald's U.S. president, is photographed at the corporate restaurant at Oak Brook headquarters.

McDonald’s U.S. president says downtown headquarters will create ‘different level of energy’

December 17, 2018 at 4:32 p.m.

Chris Kempczinski, McDonald’s U.S. president, is hitting the gas as the global fast-food chain works to modernize its U.S. restaurants and woo back customers who have drifted off. “We’ve probably...

Arsen Avakian, founder and CEO of Argo Tea, poses for a photograph at one of his stores in Connors Park in the 800 block of North Wabash Avenue in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood on Nov. 3, 2017.

Argo Tea’s CEO on outlasting Teavana, going cashless and taking on Big Soda

December 17, 2018 at 3:20 p.m.

When Starbucks bought Teavana for $620 million in 2012, some experts predicted trouble for Chicago-based Argo Tea. But in July, Starbucks announced it would close all 379 Teavana locations. Meanwhile,...

Danny Wirtz, vice chair of Breakthru Beverage in Cicero, is seen at the warehouse July 26, 2016. Breakthru Beverage Group, co-owned by Rocky Wirtz and family, is expanding its reach by merging with Republic National Distribution Co.

Rocky Wirtz’s Breakthru Beverage to merge with Texas-based firm, becoming $12 billion liquor distributor

December 17, 2018 at 2:58 p.m.

Breakthru Beverage Group, the alcohol wholesale company that has its Illinois operation based in Cicero, is planning to merge with Texas-based Republic National Distribution Co. to form the second largest...

A sign marks an entrance at a Mars production facility near Topeka, Kan. Mars Wrigley Confectionery may move its U.S. candy headquarters to Newark, N.J.

Chicago could lose out on Mars Wrigley candy HQ after $30 million N.J. bid

December 17, 2018 at 1:46 p.m.

Chicago could land the new U.S. headquarters for Mars Wrigley Confectionery, but Newark, N.J. might have the sweeter offer after officials in that state approved more than $30 million in...

Portillo’s rolls out delivery in most markets with DoorDash partnership

December 17, 2018 at 1:36 p.m.

In potentially troubling news for bulging waistlines across the land, Portillo’s has expanded delivery in nearly all of its markets nationwide in a new partnership with DoorDash, a San Francisco-based...

<p>Starbucks is planning a kitchen on Chicago’s Near North Side where it will prepare food for its future Princi bakeries in Chicago, as well as for its four-story Roastery on Michigan Avenue that’s slated to open in 2019.</p>

Starbucks plans Princi kitchen on Near North Side to supply new bakeries

December 17, 2018 at 1:04 p.m.

Starbucks is planning a kitchen on Chicago’s Near North Side where it will prepare food for its future Princi bakeries in Chicago, as well as for its four-story Roastery on...

Nick Devane, CEO of Pilotlight, stands in a second floor space that will incorporate stations for cooking and production, during a tour of the soon-to-open space located in the former Le Cordon Bleu school site.

Pilotlight, a new shared kitchen, to open in former Le Cordon Bleu school

December 17, 2018 at 12:49 p.m.

A New York-based food incubator is opening a shared kitchen for small food businesses in the former Le Cordon Bleu culinary school on Chicago’s Near North Side. Pilotlight, formerly known...

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