By Courtney Dillard Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the construction of a new office building for United Center employees last week. Construction of the new building
By Lucy Ren Thirty states had statistically significant unemployment rate declines over the year of 2014, the largest of which occurred in Illinois, while the
By Alysha Khan After a disappointing fourth quarter and year, McDonald’s Corp. announced that CEO Don Thompson will retire as of March 1. The stock
By Bethel Habte The manufactured durable goods industry performed below analyst expectations in December, though the decrease followed a strong year for the manufacturing industry.
By Yasufumi Saito Greater chances of getting a job and lower gasoline prices are making Americans feel more comfortable about today’s economy like it was
By Jin Wu Chicago health care and economic experts said the indirect cost of Ebola is enormous and partnerships between public and private sectors could
By Meredith Wilson The recent study by the Fiscal Futures Project of the University of Illinois dangled the state over a 2016 operating budget deficit
By Yanqing Chen, Ellen Kobe, Meghan Tribe and Andersen Xia Dozens of people lined up at two Chicago-area newsstands hoping to get one of the
By Alysha Khan Global fast food giant McDonald’s Corp. ended a year of struggling sales with a 21 percent drop in fourth quarter earnings, missing
By Bethel Habte Despite a visible and vocal opposition at a public hearing Wednesday, the Illinois Commerce Commission granted two major area gas companies rate