Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

A Jewel-Osco grocery store is seen March 27, 2019, at the intersection of 61st Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago.

When do salaried employees deserve overtime? Hundreds of Jewel-Osco workers are eligible to join lawsuit after ruling.

February 11, 2021 at 4:09 p.m.

Potentially hundreds of Jewel-Osco employees will be given a chance to join a lawsuit alleging the grocery chain improperly denied overtime pay to assistant store directors. The suit, filed in...

Steve Wiley, manager of the Pilsen Food Pantry on South Throop Street in Chicago, puts together items on a client's shopping list on Feb. 4, 2021. The pantry is one of the community partners of the Greater Chicago Food Depository to receive a grant.

Four new food pantries for Chicago’s South and West sides: ‘It is about the power of food to transform a community’

February 8, 2021 at 1:51 p.m.

Four food pantries are set to open this spring as part of a major grant from the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which is shifting its funding strategy to focus on...

Marie Lourdie Pierre-Jacques, an immigrant from Haiti who has worked in hotels for 28 years, becomes emotional at her home in Bolingbrook on Jan. 26, 2021, as she talks about the financial and emotional pressures of losing her job. She was told in October 2020 that she would be permanently laid off from her job as a banquet server at the Swissotel in Chicago.

Moms, particularly Black moms, are bearing the brunt of job losses during the pandemic, setting back efforts to climb the economic ladder

February 6, 2021 at 3:02 a.m.

Marie Lourdie Pierre-Jacques still breaks down when she recounts the phone call that pulled the rug out from under her. One of thousands of hotel workers placed on temporary layoff...

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When do salaried employees deserve overtime? Hundreds of Jewel-Osco workers are eligible to join lawsuit after ruling.

Four new food pantries for Chicago’s South and West sides: ‘It is about the power of food to transform a community’

Moms, particularly Black moms, are bearing the brunt of job losses during the pandemic, setting back efforts to climb the economic ladder

Judge refuses to toss McDonald’s lawsuit seeking to claw back more than $37 million from fired CEO Steve Easterbrook

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A Jewel-Osco is the first store in US to pilot an automated pickup kiosk. Here’s how it works.