Sterigenics, its parent company and a corporate predecessor should pay $363 million in damages for exposing a Willowbrook, Illinois, woman and thousands of others to cancer-causing ethylene oxide pollution, a Cook County jury decided Monday. After a fi…
‘Good Night, Oscar’ with Sean Hayes is headed to Broadway
CHICAGO — The smash hit Goodman Theatre production of “Good Night, Oscar” is headed to Broadway in the spring with most of its original Chicago cast — including its acclaimed star, Sean Hayes, likely to be a formidable contender in the upcoming awards …
Data centers booming in Illinois with addition of $2.5 billion site planned for former United Airlines headquarters
Construction has begun at the site of the former United Airlines headquarters in Mount Prospect, Illinois, with recent demolition at the property clearing the way for the creation of a $2.5 billion data center campus expected to launch in 2024. Officia…
Garrett Popcorn brown ale: Here’s how the popcorn-packed Revolution Brewing collab tastes.
CHICAGO — Revolution Brewing and Garrett Popcorn have been neighbors under the same roof for nine years, and that has led to the inevitable: a Revolution beer made with Garrett popcorn. When the process began in January, the idea of what to do — brown …
Commentary: What’s at fault for lower life expectancy? Health care has less influence than individual choices.
Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth. New life expectancy data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seems to indicate that things are g…
Commentary: Reflecting on the missed opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic
With 2 ½ years of COVID-19 experience behind us, we can now identify the missed opportunities the medical and public health communities had to control the pandemic. There are three well-established areas where the virus caught the world unprepared: asy…
What are meteorologists thinking? They can tell us about the weather, but also worry about the climate emergency
CHICAGO — Jim Anderson winced as he said opportunity. He paused on the word for a moment as about 20 weather-industry professionals sat in folding chairs before him. Anderson didn’t want to sound mercenary or, worse, cheerful. But climate change, he r…
Paul Sullivan: It has been ‘a bummer’ of a season for Kris Bryant and many others from the 2016 champion Cubs
CHICAGO — The iconic image of the first burst of celebrating Chicago Cubs players remains as fresh in your mind now as the day it happened almost six years ago in Cleveland. Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant suspended together in midair. Mike Montgomery gr…
Vice President Kamala Harris rallies with fellow Democrats in Chicago over abortion rights as midterms near
CHICAGO — Less than two months before the midterm elections, Vice President Kamala Harris rallied a welcoming crowd of abortion-rights supporters in Chicago on Friday where she heralded Illinois Democrats for playing key roles in pushing for reproducti…
Allstate auto insurance rates jump 14% in Illinois. State Farm is up more than 8%. Both companies say inflation is to blame
Allstate raised auto insurance rates by 14% in Illinois last month, dramatically outpacing the national average and the inflation rate. State Farm wasn’t far behind, increasing rates by more than 8% for Illinois drivers in August. The Allstate premium …