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Uber Technologies is expected to pay $20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the rideshare company violated federal law by sending out unsolicited text messages.

Uber reaches $20 million settlement in class-action lawsuit over text messages

June 2, 2018 at 1:10 a.m.

Uber Technologies is expected to pay $20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the rideshare company violated federal law by sending out unsolicited text messages. The settlement requires final...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Chicago artist pens children’s book about immigration and deportation

December 17, 2018 at 4:45 p.m.

Children may not fully understand what it means to be deported from the U.S., but they're certainly aware of the anti-immigrant rhetoric stemming from the 2016 presidential election. In "Rosita...

Elisha Orwa, back, Senior Talent Acquisition Lead at Skills for Chicagoland's Future, helps a group of job applicants Tuesday with pre-interview job applications.

Nonprofit puts workers on track for higher earnings, job retention, report shows

June 2, 2018 at 2:42 a.m.

Individuals who found jobs with the help of Skills for Chicagoland's Future, a Chicago nonprofit, earned more and were more likely to be in their jobs two years later than...

Ace Hardware has acquired a majority stake in The Grommet, an e-commerce startup that brings to market products from independent entrepreneurs.

Ace Hardware acquires majority stake in e-commerce startup The Grommet

June 2, 2018 at 3:43 a.m.

Ace Hardware has acquired a majority stake in The Grommet, an e-commerce startup that brings to market products from independent entrepreneurs and emerging companies, officials announced Tuesday. Launched in 2008,...

Second City instructor and award-winning storyteller Lily Be to perform one-woman show in Pilsen

July 11, 2019 at 11:34 a.m.

Lily Be has had five near-death experiences. As a newborn, the Humboldt Park resident flatlined while surgeons operated on a hernia she developed in the womb. At 8, her appendix...

Chicago honors labor hero Dolores Huerta through art

December 17, 2018 at 4:47 p.m.

Chicago is embracing iconic civil rights and labor leader Dolores Huerta this fall through a series of film screenings and art exhibitions honoring her life's work. Huerta, 87, launched what...

Pachanga comes to Subterranean to celebrate Latino artists, culture in Chicago

June 2, 2018 at 11:27 a.m.

Cumbia music blasted from the speakers at Subterranean on a recent Friday night for a special edition of Pachanga, a monthly dance party showcasing Latino artists and musicians. The event...

Compare the Chance the Rapper track with the song a lawsuit claims he sampled without permission

June 2, 2018 at 12:03 p.m.

Chance the Rapper is being sued for copyright infringement by a New York lawyer and jazz musician who claims the Chicago rapper sampled a "significant portion" of his work on...

Longtime school librarian Nora Wiltse noted that "in CPS, we really are the student's main source of books, and now that access has been taken away."

Information literacy lost: Most CPS schools no longer have librarians

June 2, 2018 at 4:09 p.m.

Students in three out of four Chicago Public Schools won't have access to a librarian this fall — one result of years of budget cuts. The district has budgeted for...

Doris Aguirre protests changing the status for those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at Harrison Park in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on Sept. 3, 2017.

With DACA decision soon, immigration activists march

June 2, 2018 at 3:53 p.m.

Immigration activist Elvira Arellano led a march Sunday from a park in the Pilsen neighborhood toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the South Loop to support the Deferred...

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