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Bridgeview tobacco store owner charged with tax fraud

June 4, 2018 at 4:57 p.m.

A Bridgeview tobacco store owner allegedly cheated the state of Illinois out of more than $335,000 by disguising customers' purchases to avoid paying taxes, according to the Illinois attorney general's...

A worker finishes a sign at a Payless ShoeSource in Independence, Mo., in 2006. The shoe chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Apriil 4, 2017, and said it will close 400 stores.

Payless could close up to 19 more Illinois stores

June 4, 2018 at 5:34 p.m.

Bankrupt discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource is seeking court approval to close up to 408 more stores, including as many as 19 in Illinois. Topeka, Kan.-based Payless already had announced...

Jerry Ward, with Unite Here, leads May 24, 2017, protest calling for better wages for airport workers. The demonstration took place nearUnited Airlines' headquarters at Willis Tower in Chicago.

What passenger-dragging incident? United gets no queries at annual meeting

June 4, 2018 at 6:20 p.m.

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz said Wednesday he wants the fallout from an incident where a passenger was dragged from a flight last month to be "a constant reminder of...

Shoppers look at shoes at a Macy's Inc. department store in New York in 2015. The department store will begin offering self-service options so customers can bypass shoe sales staff.

Self-service shoe departments coming to three Chicago-area Macy’s stores

June 4, 2018 at 6:40 p.m.

Macy's is bringing its new self-service shoe concept to three Chicago-area stores where customers can bypass sales associates and slip on a pair all by themselves. The "help yourself" approach...

Retail bankruptcies push available anchor store space to new high in Chicago area

June 4, 2018 at 6:54 p.m.

Seeing a lot of big, empty stores? It's not just you. A string of retail bankruptcies has pushed the amount of available anchor retail space in the Chicago area to...

Bluemercury founder Barry Beck is photographed May 18, 2017, at a new store in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Beck launched the beauty chain in 1999 with his wife, Marla, and Macy's bought the business in 2015.

Bluemercury founder taking neighborhood approach to luxury beauty, spa service sales

June 4, 2018 at 7:34 p.m.

When Barry and Marla Beck launched Bluemercury in 1999 as an upscale, neighborhood alternative to the department store beauty-buying experience, they had to convince brands and investors to sell beauty...

Target opening downtown Evanston store next year

June 4, 2018 at 7:27 p.m.

One of Target's new small-scale stores is headed to downtown Evanston next year. The 27,400-square-foot store will be in the Shops at Sherman Plaza, slightly north of Fountain Square, and...

Dan Brown Sr., president of Loggerhead Tools, shows his Bionic Wrench in his home office in Palos Park in 2009, with son Dan Brown Jr. at left. Brown Sr. invented the adjustable wrench and founded the family-run tool company in 2005. It remains LoggerHead’s flagship product.

Suburban ‘Bionic Wrench’ maker wins $6M in patent suit against Sears, supplier

June 4, 2018 at 8:37 p.m.

The father and son behind a Palos Park tool company thought Sears Holdings' Craftsman brand locking wrench looked a lot like their patented Bionic Wrench — in fact, a little...

Sears is in a legal battle withOne World Technologies, which has threatenedto back out of its contract with Sears, citing concerns about the retailer's ability to pay for merchandise, unless Sears agreed to cut back its orders, according to a suit Sears filed in Cook County Circuit Court Monday.

Sears asks court to keep vendor from cutting supply of Craftsman tools

June 4, 2018 at 8:54 p.m.

Sears Holdings is preparing for a legal battle with a vendor by filing its own lawsuit to stop the company from restricting its supply of Craftsman power tools. The supplier,...

Sears home and appliance sales associate Chris Azzo holds onto an informative flyer and an Apple iPad while speaking May 9, 2017, with customers at the Sears store at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. Salespeople carry iPads which help them search for products while selling to a customer.

Sears CEO still committed to turnaround, but signs are tough to see

June 4, 2018 at 9:07 p.m.

"Profit Down, Sears May Hold Yard Sale." "Are Sears and Kmart Goners?" "Will Sears go bankrupt?" Those are not the headlines you'd expect a company's chairman and CEO to put...

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