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United Airlines gate agent Emma Watt helps passengers scan their boarding passes for a flight to San Francisco at O'Hare International Airport on June 18, 2020. The airline announced Wednesday it is expanding its mask requirement as COVID-19 cases spike.

United expands mask requirement at O’Hare and other airports as spike in COVID-19 cases stalls travel rebound

July 22, 2020 at 5:48 p.m.

United Airlines is broadening requirements for where passengers must wear masks as a surge in COVID-19 cases stalls slowly recovering interest in air travel. Travelers over age 2 must wear...

Letreros sobre distanciamiento social pegados en el piso de Cushman & Wakefield, una firma de bienes raíces comerciales, fotografiados el viernes 17 de julio de 2020.

Empleados encuentran nuevas reglas en el regreso a la oficina

July 20, 2020 at 12:18 p.m.

Cuando los empleados de Cushman & Wakefield comenzaron a regresar a la oficina el lunes, les dieron tapabocas, desinfectante para manos y notas adhesivas. Los tapabocas y el desinfectante para...

A sign on a coffee pot reminds employees at Cushman & Wakefield to sanitize hands, on July 17, 2020, in Chicago.

Sticky notes on the bathroom door and wipes by the coffee pot. Employees find new rules as they return to the office.

July 20, 2020 at 11:04 a.m.

When Cushman & Wakefield's employees started trickling back into the office Monday, they were given face masks, hand sanitizer and sticky notes. The face masks and hand sanitizer were fairly...

Rows of United Airlines check-in counters at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago are unoccupied on June 25, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The airline reached an agreement with its pilots' union on programs meant to avoid the number of pilots affected by layoffs in the fall.

United, union strike deal to limit number of pilots affected by mass furloughs in October

July 17, 2020 at 1:27 p.m.

United Airlines and its pilots' union reached an agreement on programs meant to limit the number of pilots affected by involuntary furloughs this fall. Passenger air travel has plummeted during...

Visitors walk along reopened Navy Pier on May 2, 2021, in Chicago.

Walmart, Target, Kohl’s join retailers making masks mandatory at stores nationwide. But how will it be enforced?

July 17, 2020 at 1:22 p.m.

A growing number of the nation's biggest retailers say you'll have to wear a mask inside their stores — whether local rules require it or not. Walmart, Target, CVS, Kohl's,...

A clearance sign is seen Nov. 9, 2011, at a New York & Company outlet store at the Dolphin Mall, in Miami. The women's apparel chain expects to close many, if not all, of its stores.

New York & Company parent could close many of its stores — perhaps all 378 — in bankruptcy

July 13, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

Women's apparel chain New York & Company expects to close many, if not all, of its stores after parent company RTW Retailwinds filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. RTW...

The J.C. Penney store at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, Texas.

The retail bankruptcies and store closings just keep coming. For some merchants, the pandemic was ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back.’

July 13, 2020 at 1:08 p.m.

Many of America's storied retailers already were facing big challenges, but the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened difficult decisions that will mean job losses and empty storefronts in the Chicago area...

PrideMasks co-founder Steve Ryan sorts through custom-designed face masks July 1, 2020, at the company's manufacturing space in Chicago's Belmont Gardens neighborhood.

New face masks made to battle the summer ‘sweat factor,’ but do they work? Here’s what you need to know.

July 7, 2020 at 4:59 p.m.

As a pastry chef who spends her workdays in a surgical-style mask next to hot ovens, Leigh Omilinsky is no stranger to the face mask "sweat factor." So she has...

A United Airlines plane taxis by parked United jets at O'Hare International Airport on April 14, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

United adding 25,000 flights in August despite spikes in COVID-19 cases

July 1, 2020 at 2:46 p.m.

United Airlines plans to fly about three times more routes in August than it did last month as passengers slowly return to the skies, even as the number of new...

Hand sanitizer dispensers are available near Cloud Gate on June 15, 2020, as Millennium Park reopens.

‘I’ve been waiting for this day’: Chicago area revels in movies, gyms, indoor dining and other pleasures as phase four begins

June 26, 2020 at 8:22 p.m.

After more than three dormant months, Fox Bowl in Wheaton came alive Friday. A half-dozen bowlers lined up outside the alley before its doors opened at 9 a.m., eager to...

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