Alejandra Cancino

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald is expected to testify Friday at the National Labor Relations Board hearing in downtown Chicago. It could make for fascinating theater, considering how former NU quarterback...

Attorneys representing Northwestern University questioned the credentials of a sports economist in the second day of a hearing meant to determine whether NU's football players should be considered employees. The...

Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter at a hearing Tuesday detailed a grueling football schedule that he contends didn't allow him to pursue his dream of becoming an orthopedic surgeon. Colter, a...

Deere & Co. said on Thursday it will layoff approximately 120 workers at its East Moline plant due to an expected decline in large farm equipment sales this year. The...

Are Northwestern University football players employees of the university?That's the main question the National Labor Relations Board must answer before the players petition to form a union can move forward....

Glenview-based Illinois Tool Works said on Thursday it has agreed to sell its industrial packaging segment to the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, for $3.2 billion. The sale, which...

House lawmakers on Wednesday pledged not to consider any special tax incentives for companies until the end of the spring session. Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, said the de facto moratorium...

The Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago union said Monday that about a dozen fast-food workers who were laid off two days before Christmas from Snarf's Sandwiches, 600 W. Chicago Ave.,...