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A worker brings a beverage to a customer at the United Center in Chicago on during a Bulls game on Jan. 23, 2023.

Strike vote looms for concession workers at United Center; regulators investigating allegations of labor law violations

January 31, 2023 at 8:08 a.m.

Jamie O'Neill has worked at the United Center for more than three decades, managing a concessions stand at the home of the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks. In the offseason, O'Neill,...

The former Whole Foods store, now with a Save-A-Lot sign attached to the building's facade, at 63rd and Halsted in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on Jan. 26, 2023.

Former Englewood Whole Foods will become Save-A-Lot, angering some community leaders. ‘You never hear about a Save-A-Lot in Lincoln Park.’

January 26, 2023 at 8:39 p.m.

The former Whole Foods on 63rd Street and Halsted in Englewood, once heralded as the start of a new chapter for a neighborhood that has long struggled with access to...

A Carvana glass tower sits illuminated Feb. 23, 2022, in Oak Brook.

Carvana admits violating Illinois law in settlement with state regulators over car titles, registrations

January 25, 2023 at 1:16 p.m.

Used-car retailer Carvana admitted to violating state law by failing to transfer car titles in a timely manner and has reached a settlement agreement with the state, officials said Tuesday....

Baristas Elise Vazquez, left, Aspen Schucker, center, and Payton Carlson after a unionization vote on Jan. 23, 2023, at La Colombe in the Gold Coast.

La Colombe baristas at Gold Coast coffee shop vote to unionize in unanimous election

January 24, 2023 at 1:28 p.m.

Baristas at La Colombe's Gold Coast cafe voted 12-0 to unionize Monday, joining the steady drip of coffee shop unionizations that have taken hold in Chicago over the last year....

John Sheehan holds signs at a protest on Jan. 19, 2023, outside an unopened Amazon fulfillment center on West Division Street in West Humboldt Park.

Amazon delays opening of West Humboldt Park warehouse; frustrated residents say they ‘just want to work’

January 20, 2023 at 2:42 p.m.

At the corner of Division Street and Kostner Avenue in Chicago's West Humboldt Park neighborhood, a massive 140,000-square-foot Amazon delivery station stands covered in fresh white and blue paint, empty...

Amazon cited for 2nd time for alleged workplace violations in Waukegan

January 19, 2023 at 10:13 a.m.

Amazon has been cited a second time for alleged workplace violations at a facility in Waukegan, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday. The agency said its investigators found...

Then-McDonald's CEO Stephen Easterbrook is seen in the new flagship restaurant in the McDonald's Chicago headquarters on June 4, 2018.

SEC charges former McDonald’s CEO with making false statements about termination

January 9, 2023 at 3:08 p.m.

The Securities and Exchange Commission Monday charged former McDonald's CEO Stephen Easterbrook with making "false and misleading statements" to investors for allegedly failing to disclose the extent of his romantic...

Oculus demonstrations take place in the new Meta offices in the Loop on June 8, 2022. The social media company celebrated its 15-year anniversary in Chicago.

As tech companies make cuts, will other industries follow? Here’s what to know about jobs in 2023.

January 3, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Mary Hainds had been working in sales at a small construction technology startup for about six months before she was laid off in October. In the weeks that followed, she...

Former Starbucks employee Maria Fantozzi holds an image of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz as the Grinch and stands with Starbucks employee Nicole Deming as they participate in a one-day national strike on Nov. 17, 2022, outside the Starbucks at 2101 W. Armitage Ave.

Chicago saw a wave of new unions form in 2022. Getting to the bargaining table is the next challenge.

January 2, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

As snow fell on the picket line outside a Bucktown Starbucks in November, striking unionized baristas kept warm with cups of Colectivo Coffee, which is brewed by members of the...

Margaret Galloway sings "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the Black national anthem, during a Kwanzaa celebration at the Bronzeville Children's Museum on Dec. 26, 2022.

‘A lot that was taken, we can retrieve now’: Marking the first day of Kwanzaa in Chicagoland

December 27, 2022 at 12:22 p.m.

As the Chicago area experienced its first taste of a reprieve from several days of snowy and dangerously cold temperatures, residents on Monday gathered across the region to mark the...

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