How do you fix emissions test? Assume cheating, raise fines
While Volkswagen's efforts to stymie emissions tests around the world might seem stunning, VW's case isn't the first time a manufacturer has tried this. Or the second. Or the third....
All Stories
The future of Chicago manufacturing? Fewer people doing more
By now Donald Trump has informed most of us that Mondelez International, headquartered in Deerfield, will move some of its Oreo and other cookie production from Chicago to Mexico, resulting...
Playing hide-and-seek with sales tax
I was shopping at the Blackhawks store on North Michigan Avenue a few weeks ago when a salesman informed me that sales taxes were included in the price of every...
First look inside Theaster Gates’ new Stony Island Arts Bank
The last time Theaster Gates walked me through the abandoned bank at East 68th Street and South Stony Island Avenue, water dripped from the ceiling, clouds wafted over a hole...
How I turned a plastic pen into $87 over 5 days
The hardest assignment of business school thus far: Take a Chicago Booth disposable pen and, through a series of sales or trades over five days, end up with something of...
An MBA experience of a lifetime: Building a company from scratch
I applied to the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business — and Booth only — to participate in the school's New Venture Challenge, the nation's top university-based startup accelerator....
An alumnus of Future Leaders of Chicago resurrects it
During his junior year of high school, Matthew Brewer would get to skip school one day a month and go somewhere he had never been. He remembers shaking hands and...
Readers react: City vs. suburbs, paid sick leave and ‘evil white guys’
Readers accused me of being a cheerleader for City Hall after my Sunday column listed 34 signs that this is the decade of the city. I reject that label. I...
34 signs that this is the decade of the city
1. Kraft headquarters moving from Northfield to Aon Center. 2. Motorola Mobility headquarters moving from Schaumburg to Chicago. 3. Motorola Mobility installing 400 bike parking spots at the Merchandise Mart....
Get ready for exceptions to the Fulton district
The map of the West Loop properties landmarked by the City Council this week looks like a bonsai tree. My husband thought it looked like an angry crab. I have...