Category: Business

Italy protects food with geographic names

By Yimian Wu Italy’s Trade Agency on Tuesday kicked off a three-year plan of promoting authentic Italian foods and beverages and fighting “Italian sounding” products that

Chicago hosts Dutch king and queen

By Meghan Morris The king and queen of the Netherlands completed a whirlwind visit to the Windy City on Wednesday, taking on-stage selfies and tours

Barrett and Pritzker

Founder of 1871 envisions the future of Chicago

By Yimian Wu The founder of the high-tech incubator 1871, philanthropist J.B. Pritzker, called for risk-taking and revolution to create Chicago’s “next big thing” at the annual luncheon of

Limestone producing bacteria

Concrete of the future heals itself

By Meghan Morris This microbiologist uses a non-scientific term to describe his cure for cracking concrete: limestone-pooping bacteria. Henk Jonkers, a professor at Delft University

Sandor predicts a U.S. water futures market

By Lucy Ren Known for his invention of  financial futures and carbon trading, environmental economist Richard Sandor predicted on Tuesday that Western drought will lead