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An empty table is seen July 20, 2020, in the closed dining room of Triple Crown Restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood. Restaurants, bars and similar businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic can soon file for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which offers debt-free support equal to their pandemic-related revenue loss, up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location.

Restaurants, bars and food trucks can get up to $10 million in federal grants to offset pandemic-related losses. Here’s what to know.

April 27, 2021 at 1:14 p.m.

Restaurants, bars and similar businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic can soon file for a relief fund that offers much more flexibility in how to use the money than...

Frozen peas, canned tomatoes create healthy, penny-pinching dish

January 25, 2021 at 3:37 p.m.

Nutritious eating on a dime is the premise of Melanie Lionello's recently published cookbook, "Frugal Mediterranean Cooking: Easy, Affordable Recipes for Lifelong Health" (Page Street Publishing Co., $21.99). Saving money...

STOCKS | Google users wanted to take advantage of the economic downturn and buy stakes in promising stocks while prices were low, which led to "best stocks to buy during coronavirus" becoming a top search term this year. The term saw a spike the week of April 12, 2020, according to Google Trends. This directly coincided with the end of the 2020 stock market crash on April 7, 2020, which led to an uptick throughout the month.

The words that shaped the way we ate in 2020

January 5, 2021 at 3:18 p.m.

There was a lot to swallow in 2020. Our plates have been too full, as we chewed on now-commonplace terms like personal protective equipment, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing and...

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