Today, the Chicago Committee on License and Consumer Protection voted in favor of an ordinance that would legalize food carts in the city. Now the ordinance moves to the full City Council, which will meet on Sept. 24 for a vote. Chicago is one of the only major U.S. cities that bans food carts; these...
Morton Salt will stop operations in October at its warehousing and packaging facility on Elston Avenue in Chicago.
In the other Great Lakes states, workers are more likely to be able to find a manufacturing opportunity than a government job.
Chicago’s ban on food carts is costing the city jobs and revenue. The city has fallen behind its peers: Street vending from food carts is already legal in 23 of the 25 largest cities in the U.S. The Illinois Policy Institute conducted a survey of nearly 200 Chicago food-cart street vendors to assess the social...
There’s no respite for laid-off Illinois workers in the “summer of pink slips.”
“The day arrived when a policeman told me, ‘Throw away all this trash. It’s worthless. It’s garbage.’ And I said, ‘How can you call food, garbage?’ I cried hard. They arrested me two times. The United States, they told me, is a different kind of place. And now look at how we’re being treated.” Claudia...
Shrinking opportunities go hand in hand with a shrinking tax base.
Of the 1,050 new jobs announced, Sprint expects about half to be retail positions and the other half to be filled by wireless experts, network technicians and engineers.
On Sept. 24, 2015, Chicago City Council voted unanimously in favor of an ordinance to legalize food carts, giving thousands of street vendors across the city the freedom to make an honest living and opening the door for the next generation of culinary entrepreneurs.
Insider says more manufacturing layoffs coming for the Illinois stalwart.
Reforming Illinois’ workers’ compensation laws could save state and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
As adults are migrating to states with better business climates, so too are new high school graduates.
Newly released IRS migration data reveal that high-income earners and prime working-age residents left Illinois in record numbers in 2011 and 2012.
The layoffs come amid a dismal manufacturing climate in the Land of Lincoln.