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Caterpillar dealer sales fall by 10 percent

June 17, 2018 at 5:39 a.m.

Construction and mining equipment-maker Caterpillar on Wednesday said worldwide dealer machinery sales fell 10 percent for the three months ended in September. Sales in its resources industries segment, which is...

U of I nurses reach tentative labor accord

June 18, 2018 at 7:31 a.m.

University of Illinois Hospital nurses will receive increases of 2.25 percent to 3.6 percent each year of a tentative three-year contract reached Monday night, according to paperwork the union handed...

Navistar, UAW to resume contract negotiations

June 17, 2018 at 6:07 a.m.

Truck-and-engine maker Navistar International is set to resume contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union on Thursday. About 1,500 workers in Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Texas are covered...

Retirements shake up Caterpillar’s top ranks

June 18, 2018 at 7:57 a.m.

Caterpillar is starting the week with a shake-up in its top ranks, including the retirement of two group presidents that have been with the maker of construction and mining equipment...

Itasca-based Knowles develops new breed of microphone

June 17, 2018 at 6:38 a.m.

Engineers in a west suburban office complex have designed a new microphone that they say will be key to the future of smartphone and tablet technology because it gives consumers...

Manufacturing lab hopes to go digging for data

August 21, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

Dean Bartles is hungry for data. The executive director of the newly created Digital Lab for Manufacturing wants to know everything about the machines used by small manufacturers in the...

Town of Cicero drops charges against fast food protesters

June 17, 2018 at 6:52 a.m.

The town of Cicero has dropped charges against the more than two dozen protesters participating in a nationally coordinated event demanding higher wages for fast food workers in September. The...

Doing some twist compression testing, Nataly Thiry Munoz is a research scientist at IRMCO, a lubricant manufacturing company in Evanston which has hired more workers in September.

Chicago-area companies: It’s time to hire

June 17, 2018 at 6:35 a.m.

Some Chicago-area employers said they've begun to fill positions they had left vacant because of the sputtering economic recovery.Jennifer Kalas, president of Evanston-based Irmco, a maker of industrial lubricants, said...

Made from scratch in Chicago

June 17, 2018 at 6:57 a.m.

Lakland Guitars LLC Number of employees: 12 Neighborhood: North Center Chicago-based Lakland Guitars touts some premier names among its clients, customizing bass guitars for U2's Adam Clayton and Black Sabbath's...

3-D printed car unveiled at Chicago show

June 17, 2018 at 9:02 a.m.

Two dozen people gathered Friday in McCormick Place to witness the first turn of the motor on a two-seater electric car whose body was printed at the convention center in...

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