Shoppers already on their marks for Black Friday
It is not even Halloween yet, and already visions of plum holiday deals are dancing in shoppers' heads. Black Friday bargain hunters -- and there are a lot of them...
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Fed jolts stock market
To co-owner Sam Toia, the shifts in business at Chicago-based Leona's Restaurant Corp. are a subtle but unmistakable sign of trouble ahead. "People are still going out to eat," he...
Walgreens’ travel plans include Hawaii
Walgreen Co. plans to open its first store in Hawaii by the end of this year. The nation's largest drugstore chain plans to open another three stores in the first...
Macy’s incubator ready to hatch
The anticipated Chicago fashion design incubator at Macy's State Street flagship, more than a year in the works, is slated to debut this fall. Mayor Richard Daley and Macy's executives...
GREEN!
Not so long ago corporate America dismissed environmentally conscious consumers as hemp-wearing hippies with too little buying power to demand much attention. Now big brands are discovering it pays to...
Frango return in the works
Federated Department Stores Inc., Macy's parent, is close to a deal to make good on its pledge to return Frango mint production to Chicago, a move aimed at assuaging hard...
Wal-Mart, unions to push for wider health-care coverage
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and its union critics apparently have found common ground: the issue of high health costs. In a rare show of solidarity, Lee Scott, chief executive of Wal-Mart,...
New player agrees to take on Block 37
In almost two decades, one of the most promising parcels of commercial real estate in the city has lurched from developer's dream to nightmare and back again. The valuable bit...
One brand, but they’re not the same
What an all-star crew, and all together on Michigan Avenue Thursday: talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, pop music prince Bono, rap kingpin Kanye West, movie actress Penelope Cruz and Motorola...
Serious about dress-up
There is nothing like a little glamor to draw a crowd. In fact, the newly remodeled Chicago History Museum is banking on it. The Chicago Historical Society reopens Saturday after...