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The entrance to Building 1 at the headquarters for the newly merged Capital One and Discover Financial Services campus on Oct. 21, 2025, in Riverwoods. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Capital One laying off another 1,100-plus employees at former Discover headquarters in Riverwoods

March 5, 2026 at 2:42 p.m.

Capital One is laying off another 1,139 employees at the former Discover headquarters in Riverwoods, a second wave of downsizing following the credit card giants’ megamerger last year.

Fireworks and flames go off as Chicago officials and Chicago Fire representatives hold groundbreaking ceremony on March 3, 2026, at the site of what will be the team's new home, a 22,000-seat, open-air soccer stadium at the north end of the area called The 78 near Roosevelt Road in Chicago's South Loop. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Chicago Fire break ground on $750 million South Loop soccer stadium, transforming the sports landscape

March 4, 2026 at 3:38 p.m.

The Chicago Fire hosted a groundbreaking event for their privately funded $750 million soccer stadium on a vacant former rail yard in the South Loop, staking their turf in the...

Lucia Fitzgerald, left, and her sisters Isabel, center, and Vivian walk through St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Chicago’s Riverdale neighborhood on May 8, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Most endangered Chicago buildings list includes Pope Leo’s childhood church and Art Institute trading room

March 4, 2026 at 5:22 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church and the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room at the Art Institute made Preservation Chicago’s annual ranking of the city’s most endangered buildings.

In an image from video, federal immigration agents detain Debbie Brockman in the 2400 block of West Foster Avenue on Oct. 10, 2025. Brockman worked as a producer for WGN-TV since 2011. (Josh Thomas)

New round of WGN-TV layoffs includes producer whose rough ICE detention went viral

February 26, 2026 at 4:22 p.m.

A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three employees getting the ax Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by ICE agents in October...

Traffic crawls on DuSable Lake Shore Drive just south of Lawrence Avenue, during a light snow and rain, as vehicles make their way in toward downtown Chicago on Dec. 10, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

State Farm to issue $5 billion in auto insurance dividends — or about $100 per car

February 26, 2026 at 3:16 p.m.

Home insurance rates may be going through the roof, but State Farm has some good news for its auto insurance customers.

A ComEd smart meter is installed on a home in North Riverside in 2013. (Michael Tercha/baiduhai)

Proposed legislation would slash $40M in ‘hidden expenses’ from Illinois utility bills

February 26, 2026 at 4:06 p.m.

With utility rates rising across Illinois, consumer groups are backing proposed legislation to wring $40 million per year in hidden expenses out of customer bills.

The Chicago Fire recently unveiled a replica suite from their upcoming South Loop stadium.

Chicago Fire open up marketing center to sell suites and seats at new $750M soccer stadium

February 25, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

As the Bears waffle between potential destinations for their new planned stadium, including potentially moving across state lines to Indiana, the Chicago Fire is ready to break ground next month...

Former WGN reporter Sean Lewis sits in his Chicago home on Feb. 24, 2026. Lewis, a nearly two-decade veteran at WGN-TV who has anchored the weekend morning broadcast since 2010, was among several reporters laid off. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

WGN-TV lays off 8 on-air reporters and anchors Monday in massive downsizing

February 24, 2026 at 6:05 p.m.

The ax is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of “Chicago’s Very Own” TV newsroom.

Patricia Gonzalez, of Waukegan, places a box into a net above a conveyor system at Learning Resources warehouse in Vernon Hills on Feb. 20, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, ruling in favor of Vernon Hills toymaker

February 20, 2026 at 5:22 p.m.

Learning Resources filed a lawsuit last April against Trump, alleging the president exceeded his executive authority in implementing the tariffs.

Tribune Chair Michael Ferro attends, Game 2 of the National League Championship Series playoff between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles on Oct. 15, 2017. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/baiduhai)

Former Tribune and Sun-Times Chair Michael Ferro canceled Epstein meeting at last minute, emails show

February 13, 2026 at 6:24 p.m.

Michael Ferro, the former chair of the baiduhai and the Chicago Sun-Times, was set to meet with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein at his Palm Beach home on April 15,...

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