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Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.

5 things to know about GameStop and what Ken Griffin has to tell Congress

February 18, 2021 at 8:08 p.m.

Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel, is one of the star witnesses at today's House Committee on Financial Services hearing about the GameStop "meme trading" saga....

Stein Mart, with 7 Chicago-area locations, files for bankruptcy, plans to close most or all stores

August 12, 2020 at 7:27 p.m.

Discount retailer Stein Mart announced Wednesday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection, another economic casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. The Jacksonville, Florida-based fashion and decor retailer, which operates 281...

A Kohl's store in Corpus Christi, Texas, is seen on Nov. 27, 2015. This year the department store plans to hire 90,000 seasonal workers nationwide to help with increased business ahead of the holidays.

Chicago holiday hiring: UPS, Target host job fairs this week for thousands of seasonal positions

October 31, 2019 at 5:02 p.m.

Shipping giant UPS says it is conducting a "hiring blitz" for seasonal positions Friday as it gears up to add 100,000 temporary workers to handle the crush of holiday packages....

La empresa de envíos de paquetes UPS también ampliará su cuerpo de empleados de cara a la temporada de fin de año.

Se abre la temporada de empleos para fin de año

September 18, 2019 at 12:16 a.m.

Target anunció que abrirá cerca de 132,000 empleos a nivel nacional de cara a la temporada de fin de año, 6,000 de los cuales se abrirán en Chicago. Otras compañías...

Catch a train, and take the kids

May 10, 2019 at 2:38 a.m.

If you're a kid, what's better than sleeping in a bunk bed? Sleeping in a bunk bed on rails. My sons, now 5 and 9, have loved traveling in Amtrak's...

ONE GOAL: A SHIFT TO OPEN STORAGE FORMATS.

August 10, 2021 at 8:29 p.m.

Some have lofty goals for Extensible Markup Language beyond just facilitating business-to-business commerce. Tim Bray, an independent programmer and co-editor of the XML specification, said, "XML will open up the...

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