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A federal judge Thursday threw out labor law reforms at McCormick Place that the state Legislature enacted last year after pleas from the convention industry. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman is a setback for efforts to retain McCormick Place shows and...
Stress is an inevitable part of our life. Yet whether our daily hassles include the incessant gripes of a nasty boss or another hectoring letter from the Internal Revenue Service, we usually find some way of contending with them. In rare instances, though, terrifying events can overwhelm our coping...
Mayor Daley said today he came away from a private weekend meeting with Wal-Mart executives encouraged about forging an agreement that could pave the way for a massive Chicago expansion by the worlds largest retailer.
Exelon Corp. says its set to begin a "massive spending program" in Illinois
that includes the decommissioning of the already-closed Zion Station in Lake
County.
A handshake is no small thing to Bill Galante, who after more than half a century of convincing auto dealerships to advertise in the Sun-Times, is retiring this month. When Galante started selling ads at the Sun-Times in 1960, a handshake was the contract. Over the...
The 61st Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, is taking place from June 26 to July 1. At the event, about 20 past laureates in physiology or medicine will mingle with more than 550 young scientists. In honor of the meeting Scientific American has collected articles that Nobel Prize winners...
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has accused China of 'systematically stealing' American companies' intellectual property in an unusually blunt attack.
Hello power, goodbye understeer—we hope.
The first time we experienced a major oil shock—the Disco-fabulous 1970s—it eviscerated the muscle-car scene, leaving us with neutered behemoths constructed with all the care of a North Korean knock-off Benz. In comparison, as today’s crude oil and prices...
A BMW spokesperson has confirmed to us that the manufacturer will have to lower its fuel-economy estimates for the 2012 328i automatic. The numbers drop from 24 mpg in the city and 36 on the highway to 23/33. Why the new figures all of a sudden? It has to do with the EPA’s fuel-economy...