After a legislative session with no action on a new Chicago Bears lakefront stadium — and a conservation group coming out against the proposal — Arlington Heights officials are hopeful that the team may eventually turn its attention back to the suburbs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information.
The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-generated summaries on top of search results.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Tesla is recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix a seat belt warning system that may increase the risk of an injury in a collision.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that the recall includes certain 2012-2024 Model S, 2015-2024 Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles.
WeWork Inc. won bankruptcy court approval to shed billions in debt, drop unprofitable leases from its office workspace portfolio and leave behind the legacy of co-founder Adam Neumann.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John K.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Amazon.com Inc. is increasing its stake in Grubhub to as much as 18% and expanding its partnership with the food delivery service to allow U.S. users to order takeout directly on Amazon’s website and shopping app.
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A phishing incident involving the emails of workers at University of Chicago Medical Center may have exposed the personal information of about 10,300 people, according to the hospital.
The email accounts of several hospital workers were accessed between Jan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Illinois legislature has passed a bill that would require more health care facilities to report allegations of patient abuse to the state — a measure that follows a Tribune investigation into the issue.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The sprawling expansion of O’Hare International Airport’s terminals took a step forward Tuesday as Mayor Brandon Johnson shared new plans for the project’s first satellite concourse.
The announcement shows growing momentum on the long-awaited rebuild, which calls for replacing Terminal 2 with a new Global Terminal and adding two satellite concourses.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A portion of Kansas Street in Frankfort has closed to vehicular traffic, allowing restaurants to expand outdoor dining and kicking off a summer season that will feature improvements, events and new businesses to the historic downtown district.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The village of Niles and representatives from the Golf Mill Shopping Center are hosting two open house sessions to discuss the mall’s planned redevelopment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSan Diego Padres infielder Jake Cronenworth in February paid $3.292 million for a three-bedroom, 3,395-square-foot condominium in a newly built West Loop building.
A Michigan native, Cronenworth, 30, debuted in 2020.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial.
A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
CTA President Dorval Carter gave a defiant response to the criticism of his leadership Thursday, blasting calls for him to be fired as racist and unfair.
At a City Council committee hearing, Carter highlighted his efforts to right the troubled transit system amid post-pandemic struggles, but focused first on the more personal attacks he faces.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Q: I have a 2016 Ford F-350 single wheel rear axle that I bought for towing my camper. I also have a company car that I drive daily. My F-350 only has 40,000 miles on it so it is a weekend driver and I usually drive it on Fridays just to put miles on it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
There’s a new milkman in Chicago.
Geoff Hoffmann, co-CEO of his family’s eponymous Winnetka-based private equity firm, emerged as the top bidder Wednesday for the bankrupt assets of the century-old Oberweis Dairy, putting everything from its North Aurora plant to 40 branded ice cream stores under new ownership.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Spain-based clothing store Zara opened its new 28,000-square-foot retail store in Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie last week. Two furniture stores and a miniature golf business will also open in the remodeled former Lord and Taylor space in the mall.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCelebrity chef and restaurateur Rick Bayless said he thought it was a tongue-in-cheek move for the New York Times to include one of his restaurants as one of the Chicago area’s top 25 restaurants.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The CTA has committed to providing as many as 250 buses for use during the Democratic National Convention this summer, even though the agency has faced staff shortages that led to service cuts in recent years.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, and further consolidating the industry.
As part of the agreement, T-Mobile will get U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Taylor Thomas was diagnosed with severe asthma at the age of 7.
Growing up in Long Beach, California, she needed inhalers and nebulizers and often had to miss recess.
Still, Thomas said it wasn’t until she was in her early 20s that she learned that living in an area with multiple sources of air pollution, including a freight train yard, had put her at higher risk for illness.
More taxpayers may be able to file their federal tax returns directly to the IRS online for free next year through a new program that federal officials pledged Thursday to expand significantly in 2025.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
State regulators rejected most of an additional $7.9 million rate increase proposed by Peoples Gas, which was seeking to charge consumers to complete unfinished work in the paused pipeline replacement program.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Boeing is due to tell federal regulators Thursday how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have plagued its aircraft-manufacturing work in recent years.
The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners suffered a blowout of a fuselage panel during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
If you own your own home, it’s no surprise that your homeowner’s insurance premium has soared. Opening that bill, you might find a 25% increase or more — even though you’ve had no claims.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The longtime president and chief executive officer of a group working to boost tourism in the south and southwest suburbs will retire at the end of June.
Jim Garrett, who has held those jobs since 1996, said the move will give him and his wife more time to travel and visit with their children and grandchildren.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Illinois lawmakers again failed to take action to keep dangerous hemp products out of the hands of children, prompting a call from Gov. J.B. Pritzker to regulate the industry.
The measure had bipartisan support and easily passed the Senate, but stalled in the House of Representatives at the end of the legislative session Wednesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Newly hired Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Shane Waldron and his wife, Meghan, in March paid the $1.85 million asking price for a six-bedroom, 4,393-square-foot house in Green Oaks.
The Bears hired Waldron in January to replace the recently fired Luke Getsy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
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A flight bound for Seattle aborted takeoff Monday afternoon at O’Hare International Airport due to an engine fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
No one was injured after the incident on United Flight 2091, which happened around 2 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share