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A new rule for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will require the retailers authorized to accept food stamp benefits to offer a wider variety of healthy food. Retailers will have to stock at least seven varieties in the fruits and vegetables category, for example.

USDA issues scaled-back healthy food requirements for food stamp stores

June 8, 2018 at 7:05 p.m.

For the foreseeable future, pizza will continue to count as a staple food item in the federal food stamp program. In a compromise with political and business interests, the U.S....

Portillo’s to open new restaurant in Champaign

June 8, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

The Fighting Illini just got a recruiting boost from an alum: Portillo's is coming to town. "It's nice to go back to a place where you have some good memories,"...

An under-construction Jewel-Osco store is seen Dec. 1, 2016, on the corner of North Clark and East Division streets, in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. The store, set to open in early summer, will be connected to a 390-unit luxury apartment building.

Jewel-Osco hopes to burnish image with contemporary store at Clark and Division

June 8, 2018 at 9:35 p.m.

Coming soon to the northwest corner of Clark and Division streets in Chicago: The swankiest, most contemporary Jewel-Osco to date, the type of store where one might ruminate on the...

People watch operations in progress after a tour Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 at the Lagunitas Brewery.

Big plans on tap for Lagunitas: More beer, concert venue, rooftop bar

June 8, 2018 at 9:18 p.m.

Lagunitas Brewing Co., known for beers like Lagunitas IPA and Lil Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale, has major plans in store for its Chicago brewery, such as creating a small concert venue,...

Kimberly Franklin, a Chicago Department of Public Health sanitarian, inspects soft drink nozzles at a Subway restaurant in the South Loop in 2013. An audit by the city's Office of Inspector General shows fewer than half of city food establishments classified as "high risk" are being inspected as often as the state requires.

Chicago failing on food safety inspections, audit finds

June 8, 2018 at 10:19 p.m.

Last year, more than half of Chicago's high-risk food establishments — including restaurants, school and hospital kitchens, and day care centers — weren't inspected twice, as required by the state,...

Ridges and all: Canned cranberry sales decline, but nostalgia persists

June 8, 2018 at 11:23 p.m.

Come Thursday, belts will be loosened, turkeys stuffed, pigskins tossed and millions of quivering gelatinous cylinders of cranberry sauce will be dislodged from their cans. For decades, canned cranberry sauce...

Bill Terlato, president of Terlato Wine Group, observes wines' color during a personal tasting Nov. 18, 2016, at the company's Lake Bluff headquarters. Terlato sells one of the fastest-growing wines in the U.S., The Federalist, which is marketed in conjunction with the Broadway musical "Hamilton."

Local wine group Terlato gets boost with ‘Hamilton’ wine, The Federalist

June 8, 2018 at 11:43 p.m.

To chart its course into the future, Lake Bluff-based Terlato Wine Group first had to let go of a significant part of its history and, at least temporarily, a whole...

Corn is harvested in Sheffield, Illinois, on Nov. 1, 2016.

Anxiety and hope: What a Trump presidency could mean for agriculture

August 21, 2019 at 8:58 p.m.

Some food industry titans worry President-elect Donald Trump's tough talk on trade could eventually hurt business in numerous ways, including limiting food and agriculture exports. Others in agriculture see Trump's...

The new Slim Jim turkey sticks are seen at the Conagra office on Nov. 9, 2016, in Chicago. The product, which is lower in calories and saturated fat than original Slim Jim sticks, will be available in stores beginning in December.

Slim Jim knows you’ve given up its meat sticks, and it wants you back

June 9, 2018 at 1:52 a.m.

"Slim Jim needs to grow up." The words, spoken by Conagra Brands CEO Sean Connolly at a recent investors meeting at the company's Merchandise Mart headquarters, marked a declaration to...

A forklift driver moves products Oct. 19, 2015, at the warehouse in Cicero now owned by Breakthru Beverage Group. Breakthru has made an offer to buy New York-based Empire Merchants.

Breakthru Beverage makes offer for New York wholesaler that is suing its execs

June 9, 2018 at 3:33 a.m.

Breakthru Beverage Group, the Wirtz-led alcohol wholesale company based in Cicero, has made an offer to acquire New York-based Empire Merchants, the very same wine and spirits distributor that's in...

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