Retailers Warn Of Cost Of Banning Plastic Bags
Aldermen agree something must be done to limit the number of plastic retail store bags clogging landfills, but they still haven't decided what, exactly, to do about the problem.
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Aldermen agree something must be done to limit the number of plastic retail store bags clogging landfills, but they still haven't decided what, exactly, to do about the problem.
Ridesharing companies competing with cab drivers for fares were fighting back against a federal lawsuit seeking to force the city to regulate the new business the same way as traditional cab companies.
"Everyone else is focusing on whiskeys, vodkas, gins; and so we're really sticking with our roots with what we know how to make best," said Jenny Solberg, owner of Rhine Hall Distillery.
The Chicago company says in a regulatory filing today that it also anticipates selling about 7 million shares in the IPO. The shares will be priced between $20 and $22 each.
Applicants must own property on the same block, be current on tax payments and can't have other unpaid financial obligations to the city.
An Elgin-based cash-lending business is charging its customers with interest rates as high as 500 percent, state prosecutors say.
TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for bilking consumers via infomercials for his best-selling weight loss book.
Research on solar and other environmentally-friendly energy sources will have a new home at Argonne National Labs, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
The letter begs one federal judge to intercede with another in order to reduce the sentence Trudeau is scheduled to receive Monday.
The private suburban Chicago university says the money will be used to a series of new buildings and renovations while also endowing professorships, creating scholarships and supporting research, among other plans.
An estimated 180,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment is scheduled to be removed from the Indiana Harbor and Canal starting in April.
If convicted liar Kevin Trudeau pitched his supposed miracle weight-loss book to readers by telling them the truth, it would have sold slightly more than zero copies, federal prosecutors said.
The agency that oversees public transportation in Chicago is suing American Airlines for falsely claiming to buy "vast amounts of jet fuel" from a small office in a rural community to avoid paying tens of millions of dollars in taxes in the nation's third-largest city, where the actual work is done.
Elk Grove Village trustees were set to vote Tuesday night on the proposed creation of an $860 million special taxing district to pay for renovation of a major industrial park.
The world's biggest hamburger chain said Monday that sales fell 1.4 percent in February at established U.S. locations. It blamed the harsh winter weather, but conceded that "challenging industry dynamics" also played a role.
