Lauren Zumbach

Construction is starting on a $31 million project that will turn vacant land in the North Austin neighborhood into a campus meant to improve access to youth sports and other community services in the West Side neighborhood.

New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week advising everyone to wear masks indoors in places where COVID-19 cases are rising left some Chicago-area businesses wondering whether they would soon be back in the position of asking customers to mask up. Some already requir…

McDonald’s expects to have nearly all of its roughly 14,000 U.S. restaurants open for indoor dining by Labor Day, barring a resurgence in COVID-19 cases.

Chicago pizza chain Lou Malnati’s is moving its headquarters into a new facility in Buffalo Grove that will also house production and shipping for its mail-order pizza business.

Back-to-school sales are expected to hit $32.5 billion nationwide, the strongest they’ve been in at least five years, according to an annual survey by Deloitte. Families who skipped buying items last year when kids attended school remotely are stocking up again for a return to the classroom.

Ulta Beauty is opening scaled-down beauty shops in more than 100 Target stores, including seven in the Chicago area, starting in August.

Air travel continues to pick up despite growing concern that spread of the COVID-19 delta variant could prompt a return to coronavirus restrictions, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said Wednesday.

Chicago-based upscale convenience store startup Foxtrot is doubling down on its expansion with plans to open 50 new stores within the next two years.

Portillo’s, the fast casual chain known for hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches and chocolate cake shakes, plans to go public, the company said Monday.

United Airlines and one of its regional carriers each plan to buy up to 100 small electric planes that could be used on short-haul United flights.

Shoppers have been interacting with technology like self-checkout machines and automated customer service hotlines for years. But there are new tools taking on tasks workers used to do, from the retail sales floor to the restaurant drive thru, raising questions about what that technology means for w…

United Airlines is buying 270 planes in an overhaul of its domestic fleet that will allow it to offer more flights each day in Chicago and increase the

After air travel hit a pandemic high over the July Fourth weekend, United Airlines said it plans to add more flights to some domestic and international beach destinations over the winter holidays. The expansion includes up to 12 additional daily flights from Chicago to Key West, Las Vegas, and San D…

Wilson Sporting Goods is opening its first bricks-and-mortar store in the tony Gold Coast neighborhood.

Chicago’s minimum wage is now at $15 per hour, four years before the state is set to reach that bench mark. The city estimates more than 400,000 people will get a raise because of the increase.

Walmart will offer job training and other community programs at its store in the West Chatham neighborhood starting next year.

United Airlines is buying 270 planes in an overhaul of its domestic fleet that will see it offer more flights each day in Chicago and increase the average number of seats on each U.S. flight by nearly 30%.

Amazon paid approximately $35 million for a 26-acre site in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood and plans to build a facility that could employ hundreds of people.

JPMorgan Chase plans to invest $150 million in grants and low-cost loans for Chicago’s South and West sides as part of an earlier pledge to invest $30 billion over five years in underserved communities across the U.S.

The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily halted all Southwest Airlines flights over an issue with the airline’s computer network Tuesday afternoon.