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"Unlike restaurants, unlike retail, we don't have a product that can be carried out and picked up curbside."
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"Unlike restaurants, unlike retail, we don't have a product that can be carried out and picked up curbside."
Chicago-based United Airlines says layoffs are coming for its employees this year.
"We're out here doing the footwork, we're putting in miles on our trucks, maintenance, fuel. We can't survive on this. It's impossible to survive," trucker Charlie Whitby said.
Despite easing restrictions, many workplaces are struggling with reopening.
Rideshare drivers and other independent contractors are being denied unemployment benefits they were expecting.
CBS 2's Audrina Bigos has some new information about getting the status of your stimulus checks.
In the midst of a pandemic, you do what you can to get your slice of the pie.
"What am I supposed to do? I have rent to pay. I have a car note. I have other bills."
Illinois taxpayers will pay $23 million to a Chicago company to set up a call center and computer system to help process unemployment claims for gig workers, but CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov has learned the May 11 date the governor keeps talking about to get those new benefits could be in jeopardy.
A Chicago Transit Authority switch worker was shot and killed in Chicago's Roseland community early Monday morning.
An Amazon Fulfillment Center in Matteson became a crime scene overnight Sunday into Monday, after an employee was shot and killed.
Cook County is under an Extreme Heat Warning and the rest of the Chicago area is under a Heat Advisory through at least Wednesday night.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson introduced a new ordinance Monday morning he said will increase protections for the city's renters.
A man was sentenced to eight years in prison earlier this month for robbing a mail carrier on Chicago's Near West Side back in 2022.
Chicago fire officials said a vacant home in the city's Englewood neighborhood caught fire Monday morning.
A new trial was denied Monday for Marni Yang, who is serving life in prison for a 2007 shooting that left a romantic rival dead.
A memorial service was held Monday morning for Chicago Bulls broadcaster and three-time NBA champion Stacey King.
The Supreme Court overturned a 90-year-old decision that allowed Congress to shield members of certain independent agencies from being fired by the president at will.