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The article focuses on the views and experiences of several professionals from Illinois, on how it feels working on a weekend. Carleen Schreder, owner of Levin Schreder & Carey Ltd., says she finds a much different vibe in the office on weekends, as the mood is quiet and relaxed. Jason Hollembeak, creative director at Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., says his working on weekends doesn't shock anyone because his wife and their friends work in the restaurant industry.

The article focuses on sporting news. Both Illinois and Louisville could claim that moniker after pulling off improbable overtime victories in qualifying for the Final Four in St. Louis. The other side of the bracket has two coaches--Roy Williams and Tom Izzn--who are plenty familiar with the Final Four, but their schools have gone through mini-droughts since last reaching the national semifinals. The Tar Heels were expected to make it to this point all along, but Michigan State survived after taking Kentucky's best punch, not once but twice in overtime tournaments.

The article informs that rising sale of Taurus has improved prospects for Ford Motor Co.'s two South Side plants in Chicago, Illinois. It reports improved demand for the Taurus has compelled workers at the Chicago assembly plant on Torrence Avenue and Chicago Heights stamping plant to do overtime. Ford has also added a fifth 10-hour shift at Torrence Avenue, which had been operating four days a week until Taurus sales ramped up.

The article reports that labor rates in Chicago, Illinois market has increased. On Sundays, Chicago's rates skyrocket above the competition — organizers have to pay the highest-paid forklift operators $444 an hour, almost twice what they get on Sundays in Las Vegas. Among the nation's three major trade show markets, Chicago is the only city whose Sunday convention center labor rates are significantly higher than its overtime rates. As negotiations to lower McCormick Place South costs continue, it's not the regular union hours that are at issue.

The article focuses on the effect of overtime work to the budget and nurses at the hospitals in Cook County, Illinois. It states that overtime consumes the hospital budget and exhausted nurses may put patients into danger like the case of James Tyree at the University of Chicago Medical Center. It adds that Cook County hospitals need money to be spent to additional nurses and trained professionals who will keep patients safe and run the hospitals properly.

The article reports that amidst year-end economic and political turmoil, lawyers, accountants and payroll executives of Chicago, Illinois are working extra hours rather than holidaying during the Christmas break, to handle their workloads. It cites examples of attorneys at Sidley Austin LLP, employees at accounting firm PDI Global Inc. and Paylocity Inc., an Arlington Heights based payroll firm, who are working during vacations.

Reports on the lawsuits filed by the US. Department of Labor against several Chinese buffet-style restaurants in Chicago, Illinois for overtime infarctions.

Highlights a survey conducted by the Illinois Hospital and Health Systems Association (IHHSA) to show how rarely the state's hospitals use mandatory overtime to defeat a bill that would prohibit the practice as of January 14, 2002. Vacancy rate for registered nurses (RN) in the state; Number of hours that were mandated; Reasons for requiring overtime; Measures taken by hospitals when understaffed for a shift; Tools used to assist in determining staffing adequacy.