Apple is so influential that it can compensate the performers at its in-store events with merchandise and exposure—and no one will complain.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s undercooked plan to help underserved Chicago schools: $300 iPads; app development for all
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s plan to help Chicago schools sounds an awful lot like an Apple internship program.
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Bruce Rauner: Congressional GOP tax plan ‘punishing’ for Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, more than 600 complaints have come in about landlords breaking the city’s heat ordinance.
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Report: George Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton, and other Chicago news
Also, the cold caused a glass panel to crack in the new Apple flagship store.
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Rahm Emanuel to Stephen Colbert: Chicago is a ‘Trump-free zone,’ and other news
Also, Janice Jackson’s rise from CPS student to CPS CEO.
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Amazon bid includes $2.25 billion in incentives, far less than the $9 billion offered by New Jersey, and other Chicago news
Also, Yelp names the five best Chicago neighborhoods to open a business in.
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Rauner is fighting to keep details of a lawsuit filed by former business partner under wraps, and other Chicago news
Also, the long-awaited Apple flagship on the Chicago River is opening Friday.
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Authorities investigating viral video in the mysterious death of Kenneka Jenkins, and other Chicago news
Also, former governor Rod Blagojevich speaks about his time in prison.
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Durbin compares Trump to former governor Rod Blagojevich, and other Chicago news
Also, Apple is almost 40 percent more valuable than Chicago.
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The Chicago Police Department is recruiting black and Hispanic candidates, and other news
Also, a study of local high school students shows that studying music changes the teenage brain.
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Not even our bookstores are safe from Silicon Valley’s growing might
Amazon’s brick-and-mortar store in Wrigleyville is just the latest example of tech’s “Frightful Five” remaking our world.
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Spike Lee says Chi-Raq will save lives on the south side—but can’t say how
The director took part in a Q&A at an Apple store in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, but didn’t provide a lot of answers.
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See U2 bring some Songs of Innocence to the United Center
With these marvelous photos of the band’s Wednesday night performance!
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A local start-up is tackling transgender unemployment
TransTech Social Enterprises CEO Angelica Ross says: “We’re here to empower.”
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Surveying Chicago hip-hop’s growing digital catalog a week after U2’s ambitious album release
Let U2’s Songs of Innocence guide you to discover more music, including Leekeleek’s recent Still Geekin mixtape.