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Customers are seen at an Intelligentsia Coffee shop in downtown Chicago in 2015. A Cook County judge has allowed a former co-CEO of the coffee company to proceed with a lawsuit against Intelligentsia.

Judge says ex-Intelligentsia CEO’s $15 million suit can proceed

June 10, 2018 at 12:12 p.m.

A former Intelligentsia Coffee CEO's lawsuit against the Chicago-based coffee company will proceed after a Cook County circuit judge denied a motion to dismiss the suit late last week. Now...

Walgreens Boots Alliance rose from 35 to 19 in the Fortune 500 ranking of businesses. Deerfield-based Walgreens rose because of its acquisition of Alliance Boots.

For Chicago firms, the Fortune 500 giveth and taketh away

June 10, 2018 at 1:05 p.m.

As spring turns to summer, gardens are planted, baseballs hurled and Fortune releases its annual list of the 500 top companies, known as the Fortune 500. For Chicago-area firms, there...

Head brewer John Lavelle, left, and Paul Schroeder stack bags of grain onto a pallet June 2, 2016, at Like Minds Brewing in Chicago's West Town neighborhood. Like Minds is located in a planned manufacturing district, but its co-owner says he could see some benefit to allowing other zoning uses.

Zoning trouble brewing? Beer-makers, distillers fear review may push them out

June 10, 2018 at 1:15 p.m.

The president of Koval Distillery likes to think that each bottle of whiskey she makes is a Chicago flag of sorts, proudly made in the city and planted in thirsty...

Ingredion CEO Ilene Gordon is photographed May 18, 2016, at the food ingredient company's headquarters in Westchester. The company was known as Corn Products International until 2012.

Ingredion CEO points century-old company to the future

June 10, 2018 at 3:46 p.m.

You may never have heard of Ingredion, but chances are you consume ingredients made by the company on a regular basis. Formerly known as Corn Products International, the Westchester-based company...

First lady Michelle Obama announces a makeover for food nutrition labels with calories listed in bigger, bolder type and a new line for added sugars in Washington on May 20, 2016.

What consumers should know about changes to food labeling

August 19, 2019 at 3:29 a.m.

Over the past couple of weeks, the Food and Drug Administration announced major changes to food labeling that could have a significant impact on what people eat and drink —...

Flags fly over ConAgra Foods world headquarters in Omaha, Neb.

ConAgra to sell spice business for $340 million

June 10, 2018 at 3:06 p.m.

ConAgra Foods has agreed to sell its Spicetec Flavors & Seasonings business to Givaudan for about $340 million, according to a ConAgra announcement Monday afternoon. The divestiture represents yet another...

People toast glasses of Goose Island's Bourbon County beer at Roots Handmade Pizza in Ukrainian Village.

Houston, Chicago’s newfound nemesis, is outdrinking the Windy City when it comes to beer

June 10, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.

Chicago, you may want to sit down for this news. Maybe grab a beer, too. In yet another sucker punch to civic pride, Houston, our newfound nemesis to the south,...

Ron Powell, with Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 253 from Cincinnati, stomps on bags of Oreo cookies outside the Mondelez International shareholders meeting in Lincolnshire on May 18, 2016. Mondelez has come under fire for moving some Oreo production to Mexico, resulting in 600 job cuts at its plant on Chicago's Southwest Side.

Laid off Oreo bakery workers question Mondelez CEO on job cuts

June 10, 2018 at 2:43 p.m.

For the first time since the announcement last summer of 600 job cuts at the Nabisco plant on Chicago's Southwest Side, Mondelez International CEO Irene Rosenfeld fielded questions directly from...

The 400-page report stopped short of calling for mandatory labeling of food products that contain GMOs.

Report: GMO crops not harmful to humans, but weed resistance is a problem

August 21, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

Genetically engineered crops present no more risk to human health than conventionally bred crops, but the evolution of resistance in both insects and weeds caused by growing such crops has...

Report: GMO crops not harmful to humans, but weed resistance is a problem

August 21, 2019 at 6:21 p.m.

Genetically engineered crops present no more risk to human health than conventionally bred crops, but the evolution of resistance in both insects and weeds caused by growing such crops has...

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