A merger between United and American Airlines must never be allowed to happen.

Why is Bill Murray, the Illini’s most famous fan, cheering for UConn men’s basketball in the Final Four? Father knows best.

The Tribune Editorial Board has some dismaying details about bonds the city of Chicago intends to float next month.

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There is only one responsible path forward: Retain Macquline King as CEO until the school board is fully elected.

When Taylor Fresh Foods, a packaged-salad giant, took a 16% stake in Pacific Valley Bank, it was a lifeline—and perhaps a model for other community lenders.

The Supreme Court must take away Trump’s tariff BB Guns.

Buzzy upstarts and supermarket knockoffs have eaten into the market share of the leading brand. Years of cost cutting, underinvestment and corporate chaos preceded a planned company split.

The owners of the Chicago Bears are threatening to move the team to northwest Indiana, though no one seems to be taking the McCaskeys seriously.

Care for Chicago’s Christkindlmarket, Mr. Mayor. It’s a a big economic engine.

More than 20 major real estate projects in Fulton Market District long have had city approval but can’t get financing to break ground.

Amazon is shaking up the natural-foods grocer with robots in the backroom and Pepsi outside the exit in its push for a bigger slice of the supermarket business.

Illinois lawmakers are doubling down on the policies that will not attract companies and will hamstring our economy.

Brandon Johnson’s budget is a disaster for Chicago. Leaders must fight back.

Tim Smithe alleges he was squeezed out of the family-owned business nearly a decade ago in an undervalued buyout.

The Wieners Circle made good on the promise of free hot dogs Tuesday if Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams threw four TD passes vs. the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.

Chicago is in another cycle of losing too many corporate headquarters. So it’s bad news for the city that Kraft-Heinz is taking steps that could lead to a sale.

The last thing Chicago needs is a federal takeover, a la Washington, D.C.

Returns at all of Chicago’s municipal pension funds have lagged the median performance of public pension funds across the country.

Citadel’s Chicago workforce once numbered 1,100. It now stands at 250. Pass a corporate payroll tax, and lots of other Chicago employers will follow suit.

Gov. JB Pritzker must veto a state bill sweetening pensions for many Chicago cops and firefighters. This financially crippled city can’t afford it.

Other insurance companies work with the state on rate hikes. State Farm has refused.

A sweltering summer and significantly higher ComEd rates have ramped up public angst over electric bills. The ball’s in your court, Springfield.

Gov. JB Pritzker and State Farm need each other. There should be a path to compromise over the insurer’s eye-watering 27% homeowners rate hike.

Chicago is in another cycle of losing too many corporate headquarters. So it’s bad news for the city that Kraft-Heinz is taking steps that could lead to a sale.

Chicago ended 2024 with a $161 million deficit. And a state bill boosting benefits for police and fire pensioners through 2055 will cost $7 billion, an analysis said.

Lee Elia, who died Wednesday at age 87, will always remain a significant part of Chicago Cubs lore, thanks to a rant for the ages that’s celebrated every April 29.

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller hopes to prove there’s still an appetite for hard truths.

Only restaurants funded by chains and private equity groups are growing in Chicago. For independents, it’s an existential crisis.

A report that a New York rival has made a merger overture to Chicago’s largest locally headquartered bank should raise alarm bells.

At age 83, Michael Madigan will spend more than six years in prison at least. A brutal cap to his fall, but that doesn’t make it unjust.

Sellers should retain full control over how and where they market their homes.

Residential taxpayers in Chicago will shoulder more of the property tax burden due to lagging commercial property values.

House rules typically ban members of Congress from leasing from business partners but US Rep. Jonathan Jackson’s spokesman says ethics officials OK’d the arrangement.

As Mayor Brandon Johnson marks two years in office, some of the thorniest issues have come from unexpected fronts: education and Chicago’s political left.

Mayor Brandon Johnson wants school board members to overturn a vote they took less than two months ago to install a favorite as Chicago Public Schools CEO.

After 11 years, members of the Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade will have their day in court against CME Group.

We asked some students at Glenbrook North, the school depicted in John Hughes’ movie, to watch it for the first time. SO MUCH in the film wouldn’t fly today, they said, but one big part remains spo…

Chicago’s Jenner & Block was unfairly targeted by the Trump administration, but unlike many of its Big Law peers has chosen to fight.

Donald Trump has torpedoed international tourism. How will this affect Chicago?

President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, as he promised to do during the campaign.

What Donald Trump appears to underappreciate is that U.S. trading partners can forge, and bolster, other alliances.

President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, as he promised to do during the campaign.

In the end, the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a collective-bargaining deal that essentially had been on the table for months.

School boards need to focus on student success – not administrative enrichment.

The Chicago Board of Education is under no obligation to cover a $175 million pension payment that by law is the city of Chicago’s responsibility.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu is leaving office after leading a series of bombshell investigations into mobsters, lobbyists, corporate CEOs and crooked politicians that culminated with th…

If the Latino vote hadn’t shifted, Harris would have won with 293 electoral votes.

The stock market is sending a clear message of warning to President Trump that on-again-off-again tariffs are threatening the economy.