Sports Illustrated will continue operations after the company that owns the brand agreed with a new publisher for its print and digital products.
Minute Media took over on Monday after reaching a licensing agreement with Authentic Brands Group.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Amazon’s safety data shows a decline in its warehouse injury rate in 2023, marking an improvement for the second consecutive year, but critics disagree with how the company measures its worker safety.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
College hoops fans might want to think again before pinning their hopes of a perfect March Madness bracket on artificial intelligence.
While the advancement of artificial intelligence into everyday life has made “AI” one of the buzziest phrases of the past year, its application in bracketology circles is not so new.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Former Chicago Bears quarterback Andy Dalton and his wife, Jordan, on Thursday sold their six-bedroom, 5,347-square-foot Nantucket-style house in Lake Bluff for $3.2 million.
Now a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, Dalton, 36, played for the Bears in 2021, and was the team’s starting quarterback for that season’s first two contests before suffering a knee injury and becoming the backup play caller to Justin Fields.
A six-bedroom, 11,528-square-foot French Provincial-style mansion in Wheaton was listed on March 7 for $3.59 million, and its owners are capitalizing on the recent runup in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin by offering to receive full payment for the house in cryptocurrency.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Lurie Children’s Hospital has started to reactivate its MyChart online patient portal, more than a month after falling victim to a cyberattack.
Lurie plans to bring back MyChart over the coming days, the health system said in a statement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Chicago Boat Show, long a winter attraction at McCormick Place, is leaving the city and setting sail for the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont next year.
The annual show, which has seen dwindling attendance in recent years, is relocating to the northwest suburbs after nearly a century in Chicago, in part to be closer to its target recreational boat-buying customer, organizers said.
WASHINGTON — TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position as lawmakers in Washington move forward with a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on the platform.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A national memorial to fallen journalists conceived in the wake of the deadly June 2018 mass shooting at the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Maryland will have a strong Chicago connection.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By MATT O’BRIEN
U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running.
The premise of a bipartisan bill headed for a vote in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Residents of the Six Corners area near Chicago’s Portage Park are celebrating the grand opening Sunday of a new Target outlet. The retailer at 4728 W. Irving Park Road, one block north of a new Aldi grocery store, is another sign the neighborhood is finally making a comeback after years of stalled development plans.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By DAVID KOENIG (AP Airlines Writer)
The CEO of United Airlines says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a piece of aluminum skin falling off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will cause the airline to review its safety training for employees.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Alex Pearlman shut the door on dreams of a standup comedy career almost a decade ago, pivoting from the stage to an office cubicle where he worked a customer service job.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Let’s stop ignoring $1.3 trillion in credit card debt owed by millions of Americans. Perhaps including by you. Even if you stop buying, balances grow like a cancer, because the average annual interest rate on credit cards is 20.75%, according to Bankrate (many cards now charge 29% or higher).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that he will put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
University of Chicago Medical Center must pay $14 million to the estate of a boy who died several years after he was born with severe brain damage at the hospital, a Cook County jury decided.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Despite an influx of international immigrants, Cook County bucked a broader post-pandemic trend and continued to lose population last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.
The Vintage 2023 estimates show Cook County remains the second largest county in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By DAVID HAMILTON (AP Business Writer)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode.
A discussion over electoral representation is center-stage in Highland Park after nearly 30 restaurant and business owners urged Mayor Nancy Rotering and the City Council to change the city code which prohibits issuing liquor licenses to elected officials, saying the law infringes on restaurant owners’ right to hold elected office.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
After four years of supply chain and financial disturbances, Hormel Foods Corp. has laid out one of its more aggressive growth plans in years.
It’s about time, investors say.
Chief Executive Jim Snee last fall revealed his three-year vision to “transform and modernize” the maker of Spam, Planters and chili as the company was coming out of a volatile stretch that tanked the company’s stock price.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Some Vanguard Group-watchers raised their eyebrows when last month Mortimer “Tim” Buckley announced, at 55, that he’s stepping down immediately as president and will retire as CEO and chair at year end.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS (AP Business Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — Fabric and crafts retailer Joann has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as consumers continue to cut back on discretionary spending and some pandemic-era hobbies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Q. I am on the board of directors of a condominium association. We are aware of last year’s federal government legislation called the Corporate Transparency Act, which imposes reporting requirements on corporate entities by Jan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By CLAIRE RUSH and LISA BAUMANN (Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on an older Boeing 737-800 that had just arrived at its destination in southern Oregon on Friday after flying from San Francisco, officials said, the latest in a series of recent incidents involving aircraft manufactured by the company.
The Chicago-based National Association of Realtors will pay $418 million as a part of a settlement agreement to resolve litigation against the organization and its members brought on behalf of home sellers related to broker commissions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSan Francisco-based FPA Multifamily early this month bought the 47-story Paragon apartment tower in the South Loop for $144 million, the biggest apartment deal in Chicago so far this year, according to CoStar.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
On a chilly late winter evening, the smell of cooked meat washed over the traffic backed up outside the Salt Shed music venue.
The smell came from the folding tables and stools set up across the street, where several vendors were selling arepas, empanadas and pastelitos out of multicolored coolers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By KEVIN FREKING, HALELUYA HADERO and MARY CLARE JALONICK (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a national security threat.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
It took just one day for Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. to lose more than $8 billion in value following news of an investigation into its accounting practices earlier this year. Bouncing back will take a lot longer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareChicago’s mild spring brought a likely unwelcome development for commuters on the Kennedy Expressway Tuesday morning, as lane closures kicked in and the second stage of the I-90 rehab got underway earlier than usual.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share