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Posted inNews

Interview with podcaster Aaron Smith: ‘Get to the root of the person’

by Jim Daley February 8, 2022February 9, 2022

Season three of Escaping the Odds, a podcast about entrepreneurship for the formerly incarcerated, dropped Tuesday.

Posted inArts & Culture

The new face of DEI work

by Brianna Wellen June 23, 2020August 18, 2021

Tiffany Hudson and her partners are bringing diversity, equity, and inclusion to Chicago businesses their way.

Posted inBlogs

The ACLU wants the mayor and the City Council to amend the ‘Welcoming City’ ordinance for immigrants, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Governor Bruce Rauner gets a new chief of staff from a high-profile conservative group following the tense budget battle.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner doesn’t think the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan will work in Illinois, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd March 8, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the Chicago Jewish Day School was evacuated because of a bomb threat.

Posted inBlogs

Caterpillar moving global headquarters to Chicago from Peoria, and other news

by Kate Shepherd February 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, wealth inequality between whites and minorities in Chicago is reportedly higher than the national average.

Posted inBlogs

Kim Foxx makes big change days after being sworn in as Cook County state’s attorney, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd December 16, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, a CNBC host and entrepreneur has purchased a majority stake in Bow Truss coffee.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Emanuel lobbied feds to approve airline merger, pocketed $53,000 campaign contribution

by Ben Joravsky October 19, 2016August 18, 2021

ProPublica reminds us what the ‘old’ Rahm was like.

Posted inBlogs

Hillary Clinton’s key local fund-raisers are raising millions, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd June 20, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, Dennis Hastert appears to be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to spend time behind bars.

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Jon Sobieski, Spirit of America car-wash owner

by Anne Ford May 16, 2014August 18, 2021

This week’s Chicagoan: Jon Sobieski, car-wash owner: “We don’t hope for rainy days to get the cars dirty.”

Posted inNews & Politics

Heroin, LLC

by Mick Dumke December 4, 2013August 19, 2021

The open-air drug market on the west side thrives in the same way that legal businesses do.

Brandon Baltzley is a chef who's been as consumed with creation as with destruction.
Posted inFood & Drink

Who does Brandon Baltzley think he is?

by Sarah Nardi June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Who does chef-memoirist-addict Brandon Baltzley think he is?

Local Foods Grocer cofounders Andrew Lutsey and Dave Rand, in the warehouse they hope to open to the public, are working to clear the hurdles that keep locally grown produce from being more widely available.
Posted inFood & Drink

Locavorism Inc.

by Mike Sula May 23, 2013August 19, 2021

Can a new business increase the amount of local food we eat?

Posted inBlogs

A new interest in the economy

by Steve Bogira August 30, 2011August 19, 2021

On Obama’s coming jobs speech, another stimulus, and the need to bone up on economics.

Indiana asks if you're Illinoyed. (image via Fort Wayne Business Weekly)
Posted inBlogs

Indiana Pushing to Poach Illinois Businesses

by Alex Parker February 10, 2011August 19, 2021

Indiana is taking an aggressive approach to lure local businesses across the state line.

Sonotheque; the Los Angeles Beauty Bar
Posted inMusic

Requiem for a Room

by Miles Raymer November 19, 2009August 19, 2021

What to expect from the Sonotheque space in its new life as a Beauty Bar

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