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Multiple Disaster Loan Outreach Centers are set to open Wednesday and be available through July 30. They’ll have representatives to answer questions about disaster loans, explain the application process and help with applications.
Employees of the store on Lincoln Avenue voted to join Trader Joe’s United, becoming the first unionized location in Illinois.
The University of Chicago Press Workers Guild will soon negotiate its first union contract with one of the largest university presses in the U.S.
The companies — Cal-Maine Foods, Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch — are accused of colluding between June 2022 and March 2025 to inflate egg prices.
Aerospace factory workers joined a practice picket outside the company’s manufacturing facility, after voting to authorize a strike.
Cook County Circuit Judge Neil Cohen said Edgewater residents failed to demonstrate how they were deprived of their constitutionally protected interests, or how nearby residents were prejudiced by the city’s public engagement process.
The 800 locked out workers say their livelihoods are at stake, as well as nearly 100 union jobs that BP insists on laying off at the refinery in Whiting, Indiana.
Construction at the former AT&T research complex is moving ahead with its second phase, which includes more office and retail space, as well as an outdoor bar, indoor turf field and public lounge.
Residents wanted to know why the utility giant chose a former COVID-19 testing facility in a largely residential area for its new substation, arguing that the site should instead have homes.
Airbnb was accused of profiting from those allegedly unlawful rentals rather than work with the city to ensure compliance with the Shared Housing Ordinance.