Chicago Tribune: Business

If British marketers are to be believed, nothing is a better royal wedding tribute than a limited-edition bucket of fried chicken chased with a bottle or two of Royal Wedding pale ale.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

More than 3,500 Carson’s employees in Illinois will lose their jobs this summer as the department store chain shuts down. The company’s 35 stores in Illinois, plus two distribution centers, will shutter by Aug.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The last Sears store in Chicago and one the company closed last year are slated to be replaced with developments that combine residential and retail space. Highland Park-based Tucker Development and Seritage Growth Properties are partnering to redevelop stores in the Six Corners shopping district...

Concert booking and ticket-selling giant Live Nation Entertainment has struck a deal to help build and operate as many as five entertainment venues within Sterling Bay’s massive Lincoln Yards development on Chicago’s North Side.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Advocate Children’s Hospital and NorthShore University HealthSystem have agreed to collaborate on a pediatric care network in Illinois in hopes of speeding up technological advances, streamlining patient care and saving money.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Uptake Technologies plans to open a San Francisco office in June as part of the Chicago-based data analytics company’s quest to become more global. “When you talk about being a global company, you need to have global presence,” spokeswoman Abby Hunt said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The owners of the Aon Center, Chicago’s third-tallest skyscraper, on Monday unveiled plans for an observatory atop the building, potentially setting up a heated competition for tourist dollars with the established observatories at Willis Tower and 875 N.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Wacker Drive’s next trophy office tower has taken a key step toward reality, with its developers securing almost $665 million in construction financing. Howard Hughes Corp. and Riverside Investment & Development on Monday said they have a $495 million construction loan from a group of lenders led...

A new report on youth unemployment in Illinois offers some good news: The alarmingly high rate of young black men and women in Chicago who are neither working nor in school dropped markedly between 2014 and 2016 as the economy continued its recovery from the Great Recession.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

“Fortnite: Battle Royale” has become a worldwide obsession among gamers, but it’s not just teens in their parents’ basement paying attention. Chicago-based game developers and technology companies are watching the game’s unrelenting rise and figuring out how they can capture some of that magic....