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Peapod delivery vans are seen April 10, 2016, outside a distribution warehouse in Hanover, Md. The Skokie-based online grocery delivery system serves 24 metro markets, including Chicago, New York City and Baltimore.

As online rivals sprout, Peapod girds for battle

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

Peapod, the online grocery delivery system started in 1989, has prevailed in a business segment that's seen some high-profile and aggressive competitors come and go. Now the Skokie-based company is...

Softwood lumber is stacked at Murray Brothers Lumber Company woodlot in Madawaska, Ontario, on April 25, 2017. The upper Midwest timber industry is welcoming the Trump administration's announcement that it's imposing tariffs averaging 20 percent on softwood lumber entering the United States from Canada.

In a trade war with Canada, Illinois — and Chicago — would be a casualty

July 28, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

President Donald Trump is teeing up a trade war with Canada, and the state of Illinois, along with the Chicago area, could get bloodied should this cross-border confrontation escalate. This...

Credit and debit cards are popular, and electronc payments from apps and online are growing in importance. But there may always be a place for cash.

Despite tech gains and companies like Argo Tea, don’t count on going cashless

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

Some years ago, there was a Chicago neighborhood store that featured this sign over its only register: "Credit makes enemies. Let's be friends." The owner of this Avondale storefront was...

Caterpillar is moving its headquarters from Peoria to Deerfield.

In picking Deerfield, Cat shows suburbs can still draw top corporations

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

There's a reality check lurking within Caterpillar's decision to relocate its global headquarters in Peoria to north suburban Deerfield. Since January, when Cat said it was moving its HQ to...

Anger over passenger dragging has business flyers taking on United, airlines

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

An influential group of road warriors, better known as business travelers, is joining a push to stop the giant domestic air carriers from systemically mistreating and demeaning passengers — another...

A New York Walgreens store is seen in 2014. Deerfield-based Walgreens Boots Alliance is attempting to purchase Rite Aid but the merger has come under fire from federal antitrust regulators.

Chicago companies are hungry for buyout deals despite slow start

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

The pace of corporate mergers and acquisitions is expected to be brisk this year, but some Chicago-based marquee deals are slowing down the action. A couple of significant area transactions...

Although in big trouble, United around for the long haul

June 2, 2019 at 5:15 p.m.

Despite self-inflicting one of the deepest corporate wounds suffered by a U.S. company, United Airlines still has enough inherent business and marketplace strength to save itself from greater, longer-lasting damage....

United CEO Oscar Munoz made a public apology April 11, 2017, for how a passenger was treated after he refused to leave his seat on an overbooked United Express flight.

For United CEO Munoz, crisis time clock is ticking

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

As if being mercilessly pilloried on social media and by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel wasn't enough, now legislators are lining up against United Airlines. CEO Oscar Munoz, despite making...

Flight or fight? United’s ouster of stubborn passenger a colossal mistake

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

United Airlines, which once encouraged us to fly its "friendly skies," is now in danger of becoming the air carrier that says: "Do what we say or we'll beat you...

Caterpillar announced it will move manufacturing jobs from its facility near Aurora to Decatur.

Aurora’s white elephant factory is also Caterpillar’s problem

May 23, 2019 at 3:35 p.m.

With the recent decision to shutter its sprawling manufacturing plant near the city of Aurora, Caterpillar is foisting a huge economic development challenge onto a region that has long depended...

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