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Brian Monks, vice president of anti-counterfeiting operations at Underwriters Laboratories, speaks at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs panel April 8, 2015, at the Chicago Club.

Underwriters Labs tries to protect trademark in age of 3-D printing

June 16, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

So far this year, Northbrook-based Underwriters Laboratories has issued four public notices against manufacturers that it says have counterfeited its "UL" label. UL certifies the safety of more than 100...

Dixon comptroller’s theft offers lesson in coming documentary

June 15, 2018 at 8:03 p.m.

For more than 20 years, now-disgraced Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell sequestered more than $54 million in city funds into secret bank accounts to fund a lavish horse-breeding operation, resulting in...

Illinois has made video gaming essentially cashless, eliminating robberies of house winnings.

10 things I learned about sin at the Fed

May 23, 2019 at 3:27 p.m.

Illinois' population is more than double that of Missouri's, yet the Show-Me State sells 30 percent more cigarette packs annually than its more populous neighbor. The reason: Missouri has the...

Afternoon diners at RL, the restaurant behind the Polo Ralph Lauren store on Michigan Avenue, in 1999. The restaurant was used as a guide for New York's Polo Bar.

New York’s hottest restaurant, via Chicago

June 17, 2018 at 4:15 a.m.

The line for New York's hottest restaurant reaches all the way to Chicago. The Polo Bar, Ralph Lauren's place in Midtown Manhattan has "opened to a universally warm reception," The...

Chicago tech veterans make MATH add up to new venture fund

June 15, 2018 at 8:30 p.m.

Two Chicago tech veterans this week finished raising $28 million for a new venture fund focused on early-stage startups and already have made more than a dozen investments totaling $4.5...

Chicago bought the site of the former Michael Reese Hospital in 2009. It still hasn't been developed.

Bidding for Reese site development about to begin

June 15, 2018 at 8:41 p.m.

Chicago officials are nearing completion on establishing a bidding process for companies interested in developing the vacant former Michael Reese Hospital site on the Near South Side, the outcome of...

Workers assemble the overhead lighting inside UI Labs, which is under construction on Goose Island, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The labs will open in May, according to Jason Harris, director of communication.

First look at UI Labs’ Goose Island facility

June 16, 2018 at 6:45 p.m.

The most expensive machine inside UI Labs' soon-to-open digital manufacturing institute on Goose Island will be able to cut metals into almost any shape imaginable. The multiaxis machine, named for...

A Metra rider in Oak Park wears a Canada Goose parka in January 2015. The coats, with prices around $800, have become trendy winterwear.

How Canada Goose and its logo became ubiquitous

June 15, 2018 at 9:22 p.m.

My husband doesn't get asked whether he's been to the Arctic as much as he used to. It was one of the sheer pleasures of being an early adopter of...

Chicago’s Ronald McDonald House Charities hires new CEO

June 15, 2018 at 9:31 p.m.

The chief executive of Kansas City's Ronald McDonald House Charities has been named to the top post in Chicago, succeeding 16-year veteran Doug Porter, who is retiring. Holly Buckendahl's appointment...

Caralynn Nowinski, of UI Labs, plans to announce CityWorks. She said in a news release "Infrastructure forms the backbone of our cities, our economy and our society. The goal is to use Chicago as a test bed of urban innovation."

UI Labs to announce 2nd program, CityWorks, focused on urban infrastructure

June 16, 2018 at 6:48 p.m.

UI Labs, the public-private research and development partnership soon to open on Goose Island, on Monday announced its second program, called CityWorks, which will focus on improving urban infrastructure. No...

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