Amazon Drops Illinois Affiliates To Avoid Sales Taxes
Amazon.com has cut ties with its Illinois affiliates in the wake of a new law requiring such online stores to collect sales taxes.
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Amazon.com has cut ties with its Illinois affiliates in the wake of a new law requiring such online stores to collect sales taxes.
The idea of automatic rate hikes for ComEd doesn't sit well with the AARP - and senior citizens were out this afternoon at an Illinois Commerce Commission hearing to voice their views.
Chicago radio personalities Ed Volkman and Joe Bohannon are returning to the CBS family, this time on a re-formatted WJMK (JACK-FM).
Officials have charged the operators of an financial firm with trying to cheat the State of Illinois out of more than $5 million in taxes owed by gas stations.
The co-founder of Chicago-based Groupon is the latest local businessman to join the elite billionaires club.
The Magnificent Mile is teeming with activity every day, but expect it to get even more intense this summer when a new festival debuts.
Less than a year after Wal-Mart won approval of plans to build a 150,000-square-foot supercenter in the Chatham neighborhood, the company also was planning to build a 10,000-square-foot convenience store less than two blocks away.
UNITE HERE Local 1 and Hilton Worldwide have reached a labor agreement in Chicago covering 1,600 workers at the Drake, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago Hilton and Hilton O'Hare.
A two-week hearing begins Monday to determine the fate of Tribune Company.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has completed his effort to take his adult empire private.
A new 130-room Hyatt Place hotel will be coming to the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Some Chicagoans, and the city government itself, are turning to car-sharing companies like I-Go and Zipcar in an attempt to save money in an age of high fuel prices.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel on Thursday praised the Save-A-Lot grocery store chain for taking steps to reduce the number of so-called "food deserts" in Chicago by building five new stores and promising to build 30 by 2015.
After what might be called a very long commercial break, construction has resumed at the planned new home of the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
The Chicago outplacement firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas says planned job cuts soared again in February, the second straight month they've gone up.
