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Beer taps feature company brands at the Constellation Brands office in Chicago in 2015. Constellation, parent company of Mexican import beers like Corona and Modelo, saw its stock drop Nov. 9, 2015, after Donald Trump's election victory.

Trump win could hurt Constellation’s Mexican beers

June 9, 2018 at 3:30 a.m.

Shares of Constellation Brands, parent company of popular Mexican import beers like Corona and Modelo, plummeted Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump's surprising victory, outpacing losses for other giant beer companies...

Blind Pig Distilling is set to begin production next summer in this former rental truck facility west of the Loop, photographed Nov. 8, 2016. The site, in Chicago's West Town neighborhood, is planned to include a distillery and brewery.

Blind Pig Distilling, a new distillery and brewery, is coming to West Loop

June 9, 2018 at 4:34 a.m.

The Chicago entrepreneur behind the sudden rise of Angel's Envy Bourbon is planning a craft distillery and brewery in the city's burgeoning West Loop area, with hopes of beginning production...

Jim Beam Apple and Jim Beam Fire are on the shelves Nov. 7, 2016, at Binny's Beverage Depot in Chicago's South Loop. Jim Beam is slaking the thirst of whiskey-craving Americans.

Whiskey boom lifts Beam Suntory sales

June 9, 2018 at 4:09 a.m.

Some like it neat. Others prefer it on the rocks. But a rare glimpse of Beam Suntory's financial health showed about what one might expect: We Americans enjoy our whiskey....

Mondelez board member, activist investor Nelson Peltz unloads $168M worth of stock

June 9, 2018 at 5:26 a.m.

A high-profile activist investor on the board of directors for Mondelez International unloaded about $167.6 million worth of the company's stock this week. Trian Partners, the firm of Nelson Peltz,...

Dozens of protesters, Nabisco employees and union supporters protest March 10, 2016, at a forum in downtown Chicago at which Mondelez International CEO Irene Rosenfeld was the keynote speaker. Mondelez has drawn criticism for moving some local production to Mexico.

Nabisco bakery recalls about 100 laid-off workers

June 9, 2018 at 5:38 a.m.

Faced with a growing pile of bills and no paycheck, LaDonna DeGolyer said she began to lose her hair too because of the stress. She had been laid off in...

Cans of Mexican Corona beer are pictured in a supermarket in Mexico city on Sept. 28, 2016. Corona owner Constellation Brands has bought a Mexican production brewery to meet the demand for Mexican lager.

Corona parent Constellation Brands to buy Mexican brewery for $600M

June 9, 2018 at 8:52 a.m.

Constellation Brands, brewer of fast-growing Mexican beers like Corona and Modelo, plans to buy another brewery in Obregon, Mexico for $600 million from Grupo Modelo, the company announced Monday. For...

Top Box Foods, a nonprofit founded by Sheila and Christopher Kennedy, delivers food orders June 9, 2012, to the nonprofit KLEO center in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood. Top Box and its collaborators won the $500,000 Food to Market Challenge Oct. 26, 2016.

Top Box, FarmLogix win $500k grant to bring fresh local food to underserved families

June 9, 2018 at 6:31 a.m.

Some Chicago Public Schools parents on the South and West sides could soon have the option of using an app to buy boxes of locally sourced meat and produce that...

Customers could potentially pay more than a dollar for these 128 fluid ounce soda bottles on display at La Chiquita grocery store in Little Village Oct. 26, 2016.

Big Soda digs in for a fight over proposed Cook County beverage tax

May 31, 2019 at 2:43 a.m.

The war on soda, popping up in towns across the country, is escalating in Cook County. As it has in other locales, the soda industry is digging in to fight...

Portillo's is looking to open a restaurant in the Minneapolis suburb of Woodbury.

Portillo’s eyes the Minnesota market

June 9, 2018 at 6:34 a.m.

Let's be honest: It would be cooler if Portillo's was on the brink of invading Cleveland, just timingwise. But instead the Oak Brook-based purveyor of Chicago-style dogs and Italian Beef...

About 70 workers at a Lansing egg production facility are striking over what they claim to be poor working conditions and low pay.

Egg facility workers strike over pay, working conditions

June 9, 2018 at 9:11 a.m.

Nonunionized workers at an Illinois egg production facility are striking over what they claim to be poor working conditions and low pay. About 70 workers walked out on their jobs...

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