United Airlines plans to fly about three times more routes in August than it did last month as passengers slowly return to the skies, even as the number of new coronavirus infections across the U.S. rises.
Illinois unveiled an $11.5 million investment to open seven small business resource centers, including five in Chicago, that provide support amid the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis and stores damaged from protests in early June.
Tribune Publishing has struck a deal with its largest shareholder, Alden Global Capital, that adds the hedge fund’s co-founder, Randall Smith, to the newspaper company’s board, while extending an ownership standstill agreement until next year.
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Economists have forecast that employers added 3 million jobs in June and that the unemployment rate dropped to 12.3%. If they’re correct, Americans have still recovered just one-quarter of the jobs they lost in March and April,
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Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette told analysts Wednesday said that the department store will be pivoting its Black Friday business more toward online and will likely be going “full force” with holiday marketing right after Halloween. It also will be staggering events to reduce customer traffic in the stores.
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On any given day, somewhere in the United States, someone is going to wake up, leave the house and get in a huge argument with a stranger about wearing masks.
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Some 32 project finalists will be awarded $5.4 million in Neighborhood Opportunity Fund grants, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Tuesday.
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This week, Boeing and the FAA began 737 Max certification flights using FAA test pilots. If the FAA deems the flights satisfactory, it could let airlines resume using the plane later this year, which would be a massive victory for Boeing.
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Democrats drove a temporary extension of a popular subsidy program for small businesses through the GOP-controlled Senate late Tuesday, an unexpected development that came as spikes in coronavirus cases in many states are causing renewed shutdowns of bars and other businesses.
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Radio broadcasting company iHeartMedia launched a national news network Tuesday for the Black community that will be run by a Chicago-based radio industry veteran.
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A state board has approved plans by Northwestern Medicine to spend more than $100 million to expand care at its downtown hospital and open a new, suburban medical office building — despite concerns from labor leaders that minority workers and patients are being left out of the system’s efforts.
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Fed officials say more than 200 banks have signed up to participate in the Main Street Lending program since it began two weeks ago, but that's a small slice of the nation's roughly 5,000 lenders. None have made any loans yet.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is inspecting a Fresh Express production facility in Streamwood after its bagged salads, sold at chains like Jewel, Aldi and Walmart, were linked to a multistate outbreak of intestinal infections.
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Two months after cutting most employees’ pay 20% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, global insurance giant Aon announced Tuesday it is restoring full salaries July 1.
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After a stumbling start three months ago, the government’s centerpiece relief program for small businesses is ending with money left over.
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Illinois will delay awarding more than 80 marijuana licenses meant to expand the industry, following delays in the application process brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Reclosings are complicating prospects for a enduring economic recovery from the sudden and deep U.S. economic downturn. In a worst-case scenario, economists at IHS Markit warn, after a brief rebound, the economy could slip back into recession by the end of the year.
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Weeks after being seriously threatened by floodwaters, the Farnsworth House, a modernist masterpiece in Chicago’s far southwest suburbs, will reopen for public tours Wednesday, with a temporary exhibit devoted to its often-overlooked namesake — the late Chicago kidney doctor Edith Farnsworth.
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One of Chicago’s biggest luxury residential developers wants to build a 43-story apartment high-rise using air rights from a Near North Side church, but residents of a neighboring condo tower are going on the offensive to stop it. Fifield Cos. plans the 406-unit building on a site at the corner of Maple Street and LaSalle Drive, along the west side of the Gold Coast Galleria condominium tower at 111 W. Maple St., according to the condo association.
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Dolton and Riverdale residents are used to seeing freights crawl along at 15 miles per hour -- they should get faster under a planned construction project.
