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Customers sit and visit at a redesigned Starbucks with leather couches and upgraded furniture elements in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood on April 9, 2026. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Starbucks unveils new ‘uplifted’ store designs in Chicago with more couches, cozier coffeehouse vibes

April 10, 2026 at 4:36 p.m.

The stand-alone store at 4155 N. Cicero Ave. in the Old Irving Park neighborhood features leather couches, cushy chairs, throw rugs, drapes, coffee-themed art on the walls and a decidedly...

Advertisements for Fooda are displayed above Metra train platforms, April 7, 2026, at Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicago-based Fooda launches marketing campaign to make return-to-office mandates more appetizing

April 9, 2026 at 8:05 a.m.

Founded in 2011, Fooda features a variety of restaurants that workplaces can employ to provide lunches through pop-up kitchens, delivery, catering, pantry and cafe programs.

Richard Roeper at The Peninsula Chicago in 2017. (James C. Svehla/for the baiduhai)

NBC 5 hires former Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper as entertainment reporter

April 6, 2026 at 6:49 p.m.

One year after taking a buyout and leaving the Chicago Sun-Times, longtime film and TV critic Richard Roeper has landed a new media home at NBC 5 Chicago.

Kevin Urbanski, right, shows Matthew Hallberg the $11 he got out of the fintech company Acorns compounding vending machine at Big Star Wrigleyville on opening day, March 26, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Acorns giving away thousands in cash from a Wrigleyville vending machine during three-day investment promotion

March 26, 2026 at 3:56 p.m.

Acorns is debuting its Compounding Vending Machine in Wrigleyville, an out-of-the-box promotion that will pay out up to 2,000 people between $7 and $15 each, while teaching them about investing.

Gayle Shrake, left, and Mary Beth Kulinski have a laugh together as they pull Snickers protein bars from the bar line at the Global Innovation Center at Mars Wrigley on Jan. 16, 2024, in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Mars Snacking to invest $100 million, add 600 jobs through Chicago HQ expansion

March 25, 2026 at 1:25 p.m.

Candy giant Mars Snacking is investing $100 million to expand its Chicago headquarters, adding two new offices and more than 600 jobs, the company announced Wednesday.

Kevin Cross, president and general manager of NBC 5, Telemundo Chicago and NBC Sports Chicago, points out the peacock feather motif on the anchor desk in Studio A on the second floor of NBC Tower in Streeterville on March 11, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

NBC Chicago downsizes in its namesake tower with new $70 million TV newsroom

March 24, 2026 at 12:33 p.m.

NBC 5 Chicago, Telemundo Chicago and the national NBC News Chicago Bureau have consolidated from five floors into one 70,000-square-foot space on the formerly vacant second floor of NBC Tower,...

The CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan on March 20, 2026, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty)

CBS News pulls the plug on its storied radio network, which provides top-of-the hour newscasts to WBBM-AM

March 20, 2026 at 5:28 p.m.

In Chicago, the end of CBS News Radio will hit home at WBBM Newsradio, a former CBS-owned station and a longtime affiliate that airs the network’s programming as an integral...

Chairman Doug Scott speaks during an Illinois Commerce Commission meeting in 2023 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

ICC approves ComEd proposal requiring multimillion dollar deposits for new data center projects

March 19, 2026 at 6:47 p.m.

With the proliferation of power-hungry data centers driving up the cost of electricity, the Illinois Commerce Commission approved a proposal by ComEd requiring increased deposits from developers to protect ratepayers...

A Chicago Sports Network camera works from a dugout while the White Sox host the Tigers, June 5, 2025, at Rate Field. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Chicago Sports Network to simulcast 10 White Sox games — including series versus the Cubs — on WCIU-TV

March 19, 2026 at 2:32 p.m.

The Chicago Sports Network is partnering with Weigel Broadcasting to simulcast 10 White Sox games this season over-the-air on WCIU-Ch. 26, the network announced Thursday.

Equipment and unused parts wait to be auctioned at the shuttered Lion Electric Joliet school bus factory in Channahon on May 24, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Hyundai Translead to bring truck trailer manufacturing and 2,500 jobs to 2 shuttered Will County plants

March 17, 2026 at 5:06 p.m.

Hyundai Translead, a leading manufacturer of truck trailers and flatbeds, is firing up two shuttered industrial plants along the Des Plaines River in Will County, with a commitment to bring...

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