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Poppilu founder offers a healthier lemonade, with a boost from Kraft Heinz

May 14, 2019 at 8:27 a.m.

Melanie Kahn says she founded Poppilu, a new lemonade brand, after experiencing a powerful craving for citrus while pregnant with her daughter, Poppy. Poppilu is one of five brands in...

Jewel-Osco President Doug Cygan, who started at Jewel as a 17-year-old wrangling shopping carts, became president of the grocery chain in 2017.

Jewel-Osco President Doug Cygan dead at 55

December 12, 2018 at 8:40 p.m.

Jewel-Osco President Doug Cygan, a well-liked and respected figure in Chicago’s intensely competitive grocery industry, died Thursday morning after a brief illness. He was 55. Cygan’s move up through the...

Pinnacle Foods, maker of frozen foods including Birds Eye and Hungry-Man, will be acquired by Chicago-based Conagra Brands.

Conagra’s $10.9 billion acquisition of Pinnacle to create frozen food juggernaut

December 13, 2018 at 7:13 a.m.

Hungry Man, meet Marie Callender. In a highly anticipated union in the frozen food aisle, Conagra Brands announced Wednesday that it will buy Pinnacle Foods for $10.9 billion in cash...

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue walks on the floor at the United Fresh Produce Association trade show at McCormick Place in Chicago on June 26, 2018.

In Chicago, Trump’s ag secretary says pain from China trade fight ‘a temporary situation’

December 13, 2018 at 7:11 a.m.

There’s no end in sight for President Donald Trump’s trade dispute with China — a reality that worries many Illinois farmers who are already feeling the impact as soybean and...

This 2003 Buick LeSabre charmed a grandson with its subtle V-6 power and understated sophistication after it was inherited from Mamaw.

Buick LeSabre rolls on in memory of Mamaw

October 24, 2019 at 9:17 p.m.

Before the 2003 Buick LeSabre was fish-tailing out of dirt parking lots in the Blue Ridge Mountains, passing 18-wheelers in the hills of Kentucky or idling in traffic on Chicago’s...

TV ads seek to pressure McDonald’s into improving its chicken welfare policy

June 21, 2018 at 1:20 p.m.

Chicagoans will soon see television ads depicting McDonald’s Happy Meals as a vehicle for abusive chicken welfare practices. The 30-second commercial — paid for by the Humane Society of the...

Glasses with straws used by customers are carried away by server Alex Goodman on June 20, 2018, at Beatrix, A Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises restaurant in Chicago. Lettuce Entertain You will be phasing out the use of plastic straws by this fall.

Lettuce Entertain You restaurant empire to phase out plastic straws at its 120 restaurants

December 13, 2018 at 6:45 a.m.

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, the prominent Chicago-based restaurant company known for restaurants like RPM Steak and R.J. Grunts, plans to phase out the use of plastic straws by Oct. 1....

Cold brew on tap? Reimagined Dunkin’ Donuts coming to Chicago suburbs

December 13, 2018 at 6:42 a.m.

Dunkin’ Donuts plans to open a “next generation” store in Morton Grove later this year where doughnuts will be displayed in cases much closer to consumers, instead of the behind...

Few Spirits founder Paul Hletko, left, talks April 4, 2018, with a group touring the Evanston distillery, Hletko said in mid-June that he's recently lost sales "in the six figures" from distributors in Europe and China cutting back orders over fears about tariffs.

U.S. whiskey producers already feeling effects of possible trade war: ‘It’s definitely going to be painful’

August 18, 2019 at 4:57 p.m.

Makers of American whiskey worry the increasing likelihood of retaliatory tariffs, particularly from the European Union and China, could hurt business after years of booming growth abroad. The Trump administration...

New Goose Island brewery — not that one — has ambitious plans for North Side boatyard

December 13, 2018 at 6:27 a.m.

Goose Island is a name synonymous with Chicago beer, but there are no breweries on the North Side island. That could soon change, if a local group that includes Paul...

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