WASHINGTON — A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic presidential nomination: Can she turn the Biden-Harris economic record into a political advantage in a way that President Joe Biden failed to do?
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNewly hired DePaul University head men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann and his wife, Lori, in June paid $4 million for a six-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot mansion in Lincoln Park, not far from the school’s campus.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Streets around the United Center and McCormick Place will close, access around the sites will be restricted and CTA riders could see changes when the Democratic National Convention comes to town.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhether you’re retiring and rolling over your 401(k) or just starting to build your financial future, it pays to get trusted financial advice.
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Ascension is selling nine of its Illinois hospitals — more than half of its hospitals in the state — to a large, California-based health system, it announced Thursday.
Ascension plans to sell the hospitals, along with four of its post-acute and senior living facilities, to Prime Healthcare.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Plans to construct affordable housing units in the historic Pioneer Arcade building in Humboldt Park can officially move forward.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Housing Development Authority announced the 2024 low-income housing tax credit awardees Tuesday, and the Hispanic Housing Development Corp.’s plan to construct 61 affordable housing units for older adults at the former bowling and billiards hall was one of 16 projects statewide to receive funds.
Nearly a half year after a bungled ComEd computer billing system upgrade all but shut down the Illinois community solar program, thousands of impacted customers began receiving long-delayed renewable energy credits on their July bills.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Lanes on the Eisenhower Expressway are all reopened after a rollover crash of a semi-truck early Wednesday morning.
A truck carrying a load of approximately 27,000 pounds of canned goods rolled over at approximately 5:20 a.m., Illinois State Police said. The crash occurred just east of the interchange with I-294, leading to a closure of the nearby eastbound lanes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will increase minimum rest time between shifts for air traffic controllers after highly publicized close calls between planes that were following orders from controllers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A long-running idea to revamp north DuSable Lake Shore Drive is poised to take a step forward despite calls to halt the project, as city and state officials have selected their vision for the future of the busy thoroughfare.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials Friday announced a recall of some Boar’s Head liverwurst and other deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people and caused two deaths.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Weeks after securing financing to build its planned Chicago casino, Bally’s has struck a deal to sell the company to its largest shareholder.
New York hedge fund Standard General, which owns about 25% of Bally’s, reached an agreement with the board Thursday to buy out the rest of the stockholders at $18.25 per share, valuing the casino company at $975 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
At Midway International Airport, Amy Schuber gathered her three young children near baggage claim with her husband Thursday afternoon. She was heading back to her home in Oswego after a nearly weeklong vacation in Tampa.
The 37-year-old was happy with her Southwest flight, namely the relatively cheap price and ability to bring two checked bags for free.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news and other timely information.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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Southwest Airlines is doing away with its 50-year tradition and plans to start assigning seats and premium seating for customers who are seeking more legroom.
The airline said Thursday that it has been studying customer preferences and expectations and is making the changes because of what they’ve heard, but it could also generate revenue and boost financial performance.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Q: I recently completed a 1,400-mile trip in my 2018 Cadillac XT5. Once home I took the car in for an oil change and was told that my radiator was about a quart low of coolant.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The remaining 14 Chicago area students and supervisors on a global leadership trip to Puerto Rico returned home Tuesday, four days after a global technology outage forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights, leaving them stranded.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A little over nine years ago, Javier Mancera landed a job at a commissary to supply a startup of boutique convenience stores in Chicago. It seemed promising, he recalled.
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On Tuesday, WLS-Ch. 7 announced that the station is promoting one of its assistant news directors, Doug Whitmire, to be the station’s vice president of news, effective Aug.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
WASHINGTON — More than 8,000 airline catering workers are threatening to go on strike as soon as next week, adding more uncertainty to summer travel, which has already been disrupted by fallout from a widespread technology outage.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
From the abrupt closure of a local fitness center to a new cure for late night dessert cravings, the Naperville business scene is seeing changes this summer.
Signature Fitness Club closes its doors
Signature Fitness Club has ceased operations in Naperville, Schaumburg and Yorkville.
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday after negotiations with game industry giants that began nearly two years ago came to a halt over artificial intelligence protections.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
In what could be a transformational development for Chicago, California-based tech company PsiQuantum is investing billions in the long dormant South Works site in a quest to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Portillo’s is one of the latest companies to respond to allegations of labor law violations by arguing that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board, which enforces labor law in the U.S., is unconstitutional, according to documents the company’s attorneys filed with the labor board Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Delta Air Lines canceled significantly fewer flights Wednesday, and the airline’s chief executive said cancellations and delays stemming from a global technology breakdown should end by Thursday.
The airline issued a message from Ed Bastian to customers while the CEO was in Paris to attend the Summer Olympics.
NEW YORK — A wipeout on Wednesday sent U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareU.S. regulators are investigating why Delta Air Lines failed to recover as quickly as other airlines from a global technology breakdown and whether Delta’s treatment of passengers stranded by canceled and delayed flights violated federal rules.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share