Neil Bluhm: Unchecked casino expansion stops paying out
Chicago billionaire Neil Bluhm last week was granted the right to open a $300 million resort-casino near Albany, N.Y., even as his parallel bid to open one in Orange County...
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The Mass Exodus of 2014: Is Chicago losing its 30-somethings to the cold?
Most Chicagoans can conjure up the name of someone who fled town for good after a fearsome winter. Saya Hillman can list 42 in the last 14 months. She has...
UberX marks the spot
I had just suffered through a string of cologne-filled taxi rides, odors so strong I got nauseated. But I needed to get from Roscoe Village to Hyde Park fast. Cabs...
Among Chicago’s public companies, it’s still a man’s world
This is what stagnation looks like. As of 2013, nearly 85 percent of the executive officers at the 50 largest publicly traded companies in Chicago were men. And 82 percent...
Chicago millionaire buys $17 million Trump Tower penthouse
He paid $17 million Monday — in cash. With a simple transfer from his bank, a suburban tech multimillionaire bought the 89th floor penthouse at the Trump International Hotel &...
A day with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker
Penny Pritzker could have just walked by. But she didn't. U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell — her boss' archrival, the Kentucky Republican who will assume control of the U.S. Senate in...
Owner of Chicago’s old main post office seeks partner or buyer
A for-sale sign is going up on Chicago's old main post office — again. Monaco-based developer Bill Davies, whose firm bought the behemoth structure that straddles Interstate 290 five years...
Chicago’s old main post office building for sale
Monaco-based developer Bill Davies has decided to put Chicago's old post office building up for sale, a spokeswoman for his broker confirmed Thursday. Angela Bonnici of Savills Studley said a...
Who invented the computer? Walter Isaacson thinks he knows
Walter Isaacson, aka the biographer of Steve Jobs, is a brilliant writer who long ago became frustrated with his inability to answer two seemingly simple questions: Who invented the computer?...
Tock ready to take restaurant ticketing national
For years, Nick Kokonas was warned. No one would ever prepay for a ticket to eat at a restaurant. For years, Nick Kokonas was undaunted. He was collecting data, reams...