Chicago Tribune: Business

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines will limit hiring and stop flying to four airports as it copes with weak financial results and delays in getting new planes from Boeing.
Both Southwest and American Airlines reported first-quarter losses Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Kim Albin has lost count of the number of times she’s had to battle health insurance companies over medications.
Albin, who has been living with multiple sclerosis for nearly 30 years, said health insurers have told her time and again that they won’t cover medications her doctors have prescribed until she first tries alternate, often cheaper, ones.

What do you do if your IRS tax refund still hasn’t arrived? Now that the IRS has received most 2023 tax filings, and should have sent your refund, it’s worth investigating.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

After 13 years spent serving Naperville-area customers — first by food truck and then from a brick-and-mortar location — Fire It Up Taco Fusion Grill is shutting down due to struggles that started with the COVID-19 pandemic, a Facebook announcement said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Less than a day after abruptly shuttering all stores, the parent company of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it violated workers’ rights by laying them off without required notice and pay.

Oberweis Dairy, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month, announced Tuesday that it has found a buyer for its century-old family business.
Brian Boomsma, owner of Chicago-based Dutch Farms, made a stalking horse bid for nearly all of the operating assets of the company, with plans to “operate and grow the business” when it emerges from bankruptcy, Adam Kraber, president of Oberweis, said in a news release.

Chicago-based grocery startups Dom’s Kitchen & Market and Foxtrot, which merged late last year following a period of rapid growth, are closing their doors, the company announced Tuesday.
“We explored many avenues to continue the business but found no viable option despite good faith and exhaustive efforts,” Dom’s said in a statement posted on the company’s website.

When Dermody Properties announced its first tenant in September for the massive logistics campus supplanting the former Allstate headquarters along I-294, only one of five warehouse buildings planned for the first phase had taken shape.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

LAS VEGAS — A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company building it predicting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.

Ninety miles west of Chicago, the corn and soybean fields stretch to the sky, and dreams of the clean energy future dangle — just out of reach.
To the east of Route 52, there’s the first phase of the 9,500-acre Steward Creek solar farm, in the works since 2019.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share