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On a rainy holiday weekend, the city of Chicago and the sport of NASCAR celebrated the unlikeliest of marriages with a lakefront ceremony. Chicago handled the decorations, with its soaring [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware CHICAGO - NASCAR would like a glimpse into the future, but the outlook in Chicago is hazy. Under the city's smoke-filled skies, crews this week were putting [...]

After their son was accepted into Columbia College in Chicago last year, Brian McCutcheon and Donna Sink started looking for ways to cut down on expenses and make everyone's life [...]

Byline: Richard Blackwell Oct. 9, 1867 In early October, 1867, a correspondent from The Globe, who happened to be in Chicago on a Sunday, reported breathlessly about the widespread commercial [...]

More than 200 administrative employees with Chicago Public Schools are being laid off and another 180 already-vacant positions will be closed, the district said on Friday. Officials said the cuts [...]

Over the past two decades, the West Loop, an industrial area in Chicago just west of the downtown Loop, has gradually shifted from meatpacking operations, commercial storage and food distribution [...]

Days after the Illinois Supreme Court rejected an overhaul aimed at shoring up the state's troubled pension system, Chicago, the state's largest city, saw its credit rating downgraded two levels [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull Rahm Emanuel won a tough primary runoff on Tuesday, but will soon face another 'day of reckoning,' as Chicago scrambles to close a $550 million shortfall for [...]

CHICAGO -- The pits where generations of sweating traders in colorful jackets once bellowed out orders for wheat, corn and cattle contracts, using hand signals and sheer force of personality, [...]

Byline: SUGAR LAND, TX, Apr 13, 2016 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) is pleased to be returning to Chicago for our 2016 Market Outlook & [...]

Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation on Monday to help Chicago reduce a pension shortfall but urged Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council not to raise property taxes for additional [...]

CHICAGO -- The Illinois legislature on Tuesday approved a plan to start easing Chicago's crippling pension problems by requiring some city workers to pay more for their retirement benefits and [...]

CHICAGO -- Contending with one of the most poorly funded pension systems among the nation's major cities, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has begun an urgent push to require some city [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino Chicago took yet another hit from Wall Street this week when Moody's Investors Service downgraded its credit rating, following a three-step downgrade last summer. Creditors are concerned [...]

Byline: CHICAGO, IL, Oct 05, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) today announced its new initiative to fight the tech talent war. In the ongoing battle [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- First came the State of Illinois, now comes the City of Chicago. The hard-fought passage here Tuesday of a landmark bill trimming retirement benefits for state [...]

CHICAGO -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday proposed a spending plan for his city next year that is full of nips and tucks: a 75-cent per pack increase in the [...]

CHICAGO -- After a drought in new construction dating back to the 2008 financial crisis, downtown Chicago is suddenly awash in new hotel projects. No fewer than a dozen new [...]

CHICAGO -- Once a dormant area of empty warehouses, the River North section of Chicago has evolved into a nexus of dining, night life and, most recently, an aspiring rival [...]

FOR even the hardiest shopper, browsing through the name-brand luxury goods in the glossy Gold Coast stores in downtown Chicago can elicit a been-there-bought-that ennui. Recently, though, several homegrown stores [...]

In 2005 Carlos Ruiz lost part of a thumb when it was caught in machinery at Little Village Car Wash, where he had worked since coming to Chicago from Mexico [...]

Like any government budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's first annual fiscal plan projects exactly how much the administration expects to reap in 2012 from the recently approved tax and fee increases, [...]

If Mayor Rahm Emanuel can generate jobs as well as he creates solicitous publicity, work-hungry citizens will be hitchhiking to Chicago from San Diego. If only it were that easy. [...]

David Greising writes a column for the Chicago News Cooperative. When Groupon Inc. first filed papers for its initial stock offering in June, the company floated the novel idea that [...]

In City Hall's Department of Family and Support Services, the relatively small band of employees receive supervision from no less than one commissioner, 14 deputy commissioners, 4 assistant commissioners, 6 [...]

David Greising writes a column for the Chicago News Cooperative. Bill Davies, a reclusive British developer, has come up with quite a vision for the old Chicago Post Office building. [...]

RICHMOND, Ill. -- In this distant Chicago suburb, a builder has finally found a way to persuade people to buy a new house: he throws in a car. Kim Meier's [...]

In the eyes of Lisa Thomas, the needs of the 15th Ward are so extensive it is difficult to list them all. ''Things have been going downhill,'' said Ms. Thomas, [...]

In contrast to his main rivals in the mayor's race, Rahm Emanuel has told labor leaders that he favors reducing pension benefits for the city's existing work force and not [...]

Byline: CHICAGO, IL, Jul 08, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has identified 22 emerging leaders who will help Chicago compete and thrive in the [...]

James Warren writes a column for the Chicago News Cooperative It may surprise Chicago's mayoral candidates, but Chris Kennedy, lord of a showroom and convention empire, urges that we all [...]

Willie Montgomery and his well-worn Ford Crown Victoria have become an unlikely sign of progress in solving Chicago's long-standing problem of so-called food deserts. Mr. Montgomery charges grocery shoppers up [...]

Byline: Christine Dugas Chicago-area home sales are surging -- up more than 45% from a year ago. The Windy City housing market didn't suffer as badly as Florida and Nevada, [...]

Electronic clickers in hand, the Chicago metropolitan area's most influential transportation officials gathered on Thursday morning and took a quiz. Try out some of the questions: There were 8.1 million [...]

The 2900 block of Washtenaw Avenue is a quiet street in the Avondale neighborhood, where women stroll with baby carriages and parents watch their children play on the seesaw in [...]

On Chicago's gritty far southeast corner, which in the past few decades has seen factories rust and grandiose plans for a Lake Calumet airport fizzle, a couple of dozen neighborhood [...]

Byline: Noelle Knox The slowdown in Chicago's real estate market has worsened in the past three months, and inventories are rising. There's now an eight-month supply of existing homes for [...]

After years of encouraging consumers to use ATMs, internet and phone services, banks are building more branches, and in the process are changing business district dynamics.

Byline: LOS ANGELES, CA, Oct 24, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- An estimated $26.1 million poured into the Chicago area economy as a result of the inaugural Electric Daisy Carnival [...]

Byline: SUGAR LAND, TX, Aug 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Recovery from the recession has been a long time coming [...]

Real estate developer Quinton E. Primo III is building a mixed-use housing project that targets the urban poor.

Some industry analysts fear that a new residential skyscraper being built by Fordham Co. will be the project that will saturate the condominium market, and cause prices to fall, while others predict that more demand still exists.