Israeli statesman Peres sees promise for peace in global age
Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres, at age 91, could be forgiven if he were to throw up his hands in despair after decades of failure to broker peace between his...
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U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade coming to Chicago
Chicago will be the site of a business summit between high-level U.S. and China officials in December, a first for the city. The 25th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission...
Portland embraces ‘green’ image to boost exports
In a glass tower topped with solar panels, wind turbines and rooftop gardens, a team of architects and planners who helped turn a once-moribund industrial tract into a trendy neighborhood...
Chicago office towers draw foreign interest
While not as eye-popping as the recent $1.95 billion deal to sell New York City's Waldorf Astoria to a Chinese firm, sales of Chicago-area real estate to foreign buyers are...
Chicago, 7 area counties agree to work to boost exports
After decades of an "every-town-for-itself" approach to economic development, Chicago-area leaders will pool efforts to pump up the region's tepid export growth rate in a pilot project to be announced...
Chicago looks to Israel for tech startup lessons
The rooftop deck atop Nir Zohar's Israeli startup firm provides a bird's-eye view of this metro area's evolution into a high-tech powerhouse. His website set-up company, Wix, is tucked into...
Brazilian: Chicago needs to promote startup hub
Chicago and Brazil, onetime rivals for the 2016 Olympics, are competing on a different field now: Both are striving to establish internationally recognized tech startup hubs. In this pursuit, however,...
Chicago export goods rise 11% last year, putting region 6th in U.S.
Metro Chicago saw a 10.7 percent rise in the value of goods exported last year, to $44.9 billion, inching up one slot to place No. 6 nationwide, according to a...
Jobs coming back post-recession, but with much lower pay, study says
The U.S. has regained the 8.7 million jobs lost in the recession, but the average wage has dropped 23 percent, according to a U.S. Conference of Mayors study released today....
Illinois chamber alum to head logistics panel
Doug Whitley, former head of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, was named executive director of a leadership council that focuses on improving the movement of goods through the metro area's...