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This year, McDonald's expects to modernize more than 4,000 U.S. restaurants, bringing the total number of remodeled sites to about half of the company's 14,000 U.S. restaurants. The modernized stores include touch-screen kiosks, more modern decor, table service and delivery.

McDonald’s plans new menu items to lure customers, acknowledges short-term pain from renovations

December 12, 2018 at 9:49 a.m.

McDonald’s is trying to avoid losing customers as it undertakes the “largest construction project” in company history, CEO Steve Easterbrook said Tuesday. New menu items could help. Easterbrook hinted at...

At PrairiErth Farm outside of downstate Atlanta, Ill., greenhouse manager Dylan Grose, left, and crew person Becky Creekmore remove plastic mulch so they can dig up sweet potatoes, Sept. 27, 2018.

Fewer consumers opting for that weekly box of veggies, so local farmers are struggling to survive

December 12, 2018 at 9:20 a.m.

In the heart of corn and soybean country, Hans and Katie Bishop of PrairiErth Farm are cultivating an unconventional dream, one pesticide-free, dirt-encrusted sweet potato at a time. They left...

State Sen. Daniel Biss and consumer rights advocates are turning up the pressure on McDonald's in a collaborated effort to reduce the use of antibiotics in the meat supply chain.

McDonald’s under pressure to phase out antibiotics in beef, pork

December 12, 2018 at 9:45 a.m.

State Sen. Daniel Biss and consumer rights advocates are turning up the pressure on McDonald’s in a collaborative effort to reduce the use of antibiotics in the meat supply chain....

Pilotworks, a shared kitchen for small food businesses that opened this year in the former Le Cordon Bleu cooking school on Chicago's Near North Side, ceased operations Saturday.

Pilotworks, the shared kitchen in the former Le Cordon Bleu school, abruptly closed Saturday

December 12, 2018 at 8:01 a.m.

Pilotworks, a shared kitchen for small food businesses that opened this year in the former Le Cordon Bleu cooking school on Chicago’s Near North Side, abruptly closed Saturday. Pilotworks, which...

Ten former Treasure Island workers have filed a lawsuit against the grocer alleging they weren't given sufficient layoff notice under state and federal law.

Workers sue Treasure Island over layoff notice, seek class-action status for 400 employees

December 12, 2018 at 5:16 a.m.

Treasure Island Foods is facing another lawsuit — this one from nonunionized workers who say they weren’t given sufficient layoff notice under state and federal law. The lawsuit, which is...

Treasure Island Foods stores closed for good Wednesday afternoon, officially ending a 55-year run in Chicago.

Treasure Island Foods stores shut down ahead of schedule

December 12, 2018 at 4:48 a.m.

Treasure Island Foods stores closed Wednesday afternoon, officially ending a 55-year run in Chicago. The Gold Coast store on Elm Street was the last of the six remaining stores to...

Treasure Island Foods employee Ayni Tesfay, left, stands with fellow employee Drita Bojku, who's hugging the Rev. C.J. Hawking on Monday following a demonstration outside a Treasure Island Foods on North Broadway in the Lakeview East neighborhood.

Treasure Island workers protest loss of wages, health benefits

December 12, 2018 at 4:18 a.m.

A few dozen former Treasure Island Foods workers chanted and marched down North Broadway on Monday morning, demanding pay and benefits they say they are owed after being laid off...

Treasure Island Foods, the longtime Chicago grocery chain, announced last week that it will close all of its stores by Oct. 12.

Union sues Treasure Island Foods, alleges closing grocer failed to give enough notice before layoffs

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

Treasure Island Foods, the longtime Chicago grocery chain that announced it was closing stores by Oct. 12, is now being sued by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union...

Jeppson's Malort, a bitter wormwood Swedish liquor that's simultaneously embraced and reviled by many Chicagoans, has been acquired by the Pilsen-based CH Distillery.

Pilsen distillery acquires Malort, aims to bring production of the bitter liquor back to Chicago

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

Jeppson’s Malort, a bitter wormwood liquor that’s simultaneously embraced and reviled by many Chicagoans, has been acquired by the Pilsen-based CH Distillery. Terms of the deal, which closed Sept. 28,...

The Treasure Island Foods sign is seen Oct. 3, 2018, outside the Lakeview East grocery store, one of six locations still open.

As Treasure Island Foods winds down, future of its stores and workers remains uncertain

December 12, 2018 at 3:36 a.m.

In the waning days of Treasure Island Foods’ 55-year run in Chicago, vendors are lining up to get paid, shoppers are loading up on discounted groceries, and hundreds of employees...

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