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UIC student workers make union rally posters on campus on Jan. 29, 2025. They are seeking voluntary university recognition of their union. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

UIC undergraduate resident advisers move to unionize: ‘These are workers’

January 31, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.

In a move that could make them some of the first undergraduate student workers to unionize in Illinois, resident advisers at the University of Illinois at Chicago filed for union...

Afuera de Home Depot el jornalero “Pedro” busca trabajo en Cicero, el 21 de enero de 2025. (Antonio Pérez/baiduhai)

‘La gente se esconde’. Inmigrantes de Chicago se quedaron en casa, no fueron a trabajar para evitar posibles arrestos por parte de ICE

January 27, 2025 at 11:35 a.m.

En medio de las amenazas del presidente Donald Trump de arrestos generalizados y deportaciones masivas, los trabajadores indocumentados en Chicago faltaron al trabajo para evitar ser atrapados por agentes de...

Audelia Alvarez Vasquez, 56, picks up her grandchildren, Yulisa Martinez, 5, left, and Antonio Martinez, 9, as they head home from Columbia Explorers Academy in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood at the end of the school day, Jan. 23, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

‘People are scared’: Fear permeates every aspect of life in Chicago, under threat of mass immigration deportations

January 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Although no widespread immigration raids were reported here this week, the possibility — and reports that Chicago would be ground zero for enforcement — kept many of the region’s estimated...

A cyclist on Clark Street rides past the Hard Rock Cafe on Jan. 22, 2025. The restaurant in River North is set to close March 29. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Hard Rock Cafe will close in River North

January 22, 2025 at 4:20 p.m.

The tourist destination has been in business for almost four decades.

“Pedro” a laborer stands outside and waits outside the Home Depot looking for work in Cicero on Jan. 21, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

‘People are hiding.’ Chicago immigrants stay home from work to avoid potential ICE arrests.

January 22, 2025 at 9:47 a.m.

Amid President Donald Trump's threats of sweeping arrests and mass deportations, undocumented workers in Chicago skipped work in order to avoid being caught by ICE agents.

Veeda Perkins shops for groceries at the Save-A-Lot store in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Jan. 16, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Yellow Banana-operated Auburn Gresham supermarket reopens after more than two years of pushed dates

January 16, 2025 at 3:43 p.m.

The city announced a $13.5 million grant for Ohio-based Yellow Banana to reopen the Auburn Gresham supermarket and acquire and renovate five other Save-A-Lots on the South and West sides...

Faces are displayed inside the McDonald's global headquarters in Chicago's West Loop, Dec. 19, 2019. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

McDonald’s sued over Hispanic scholarship program one week after rolling back some diversity goals

January 13, 2025 at 7:52 p.m.

The complaint against McDonald's, which is based in Chicago, alleges the decades-old HACER scholarship program, which the fast food giant says has awarded $33 million in college scholarships to Hispanic...

Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks Dec. 3, 2024, at the City Club of Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Johnson administration passes on state funding for publicly owned grocery store

January 7, 2025 at 9:42 a.m.

The decision to pass on state funding raises questions about the future of the bold proposal the mayor first floated more than a year ago.

People walk outside the Hearthside Food Solutions facility in Romeoville on March 28, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Hearthside child labor settlement approved by Texas judge

January 3, 2025 at 3:59 p.m.

Downers-Grove based Hearthside Food Solutions will pay $4.5 million to settle an Illinois child labor probe after a Texas bankruptcy judge approved a settlement between the company and the Illinois...

Starbucks employee Violet Nijenhuis, center, chants during a strike at the Starbucks at Ridge Avenue and Clark Street in Chicago on Dec. 24, 2024. (Tess Crowley/baiduhai)

Starbucks baristas escalate strike on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2024 at 2:53 p.m.

Across the country, baristas at more than 300 cafes were striking, according to their union, Starbucks Workers United.

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