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Shoppers walk toward Yellow Banana’s Save-A-Lot grocery store on South Pulaski Road in Chicago on March 24, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Yellow Banana gets six more months to complete city-funded grocery project

March 27, 2025 at 3:41 p.m.

Nearly three years after the city first announced it would give $13.5 million in public dollars to grocery operator Yellow Banana, the company says it will soon complete the grocery...

A shopper unloads her cart outside Tony’s Fresh Market in Schaumburg on March 24, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

2,400 grocery workers to decide whether Tony’s Fresh Market will go union

March 25, 2025 at 12:04 p.m.

The union election will be one of the largest held in the U.S. private sector so far this year.

Jaqueline Morales speaks with Luis Ramirez of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services during the State of Illinois Malcolm X College Spring Career Fair in Chicago on March 20, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

At state job fair, DOGE cuts hit home for federal workers

March 22, 2025 at 9:40 a.m.

“Morale is destroyed,” one current federal employee told the Tribune. “And it kills productivity, because all you’re doing is kind of waiting to figure out what happens next.”

Protesters refuse to leave the Starbucks coffee shop at Ridge Avenue and Clark Street in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, March 11, 2025. Eleven were arrested for criminal trespass. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Starbucks workers, supporters arrested in protest for union contract

March 12, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.

Starbucks workers said they wanted to put pressure on the Seattle-based coffee giant to finalize a contract with the union on the eve of the company’s annual shareholder meeting.

Angela Correa, center, and other Northwestern University dining workers with Unite Here Local 1 picket just off campus March 10, 2025. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Northwestern dining hall workers go on strike

March 10, 2025 at 3:34 p.m.

Hundreds of dining hall workers at Northwestern University walked off the job as their union said it had reached an impasse with their employer.

The U.S. Small Business Administration office in Chicago is seen on March 7, 2025. The SBA is moving its regional office out of Chicago. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Confusion swirls after Small Business Administration says it will move Chicago regional office over sanctuary city policies

March 8, 2025 at 12:55 p.m.

The questions began when the agency announced it would relocate six regional offices throughout the country because they are in cities that "do not comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs...

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Yellow Banana gets six more months to complete city-funded grocery project

2,400 grocery workers to decide whether Tony’s Fresh Market will go union

At state job fair, DOGE cuts hit home for federal workers

Starbucks workers, supporters arrested in protest for union contract

Northwestern dining hall workers go on strike

Confusion swirls after Small Business Administration says it will move Chicago regional office over sanctuary city policies

Aldermen say Veterans Affairs abruptly puts hold on outreach program

Activist investor gets tough on Portillo’s amid national expansion

Grocery workers union seeks inroads at Tony’s Fresh Market

Cook County prosecutors file union petition after state’s attorney misses union deadline for voluntary recognition