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Perdue recalls 167,000 pounds of chicken nuggets after consumers find metal wire in some packages

Aug 19, 2024 11:45 am - NEW YORK — Check your freezer. Perdue Foods is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of frozen chicken nuggets and tenders after some customers reported finding metal wire e...
Burlington Stores opens Friday in Streamwood

Daily Herald report
Aug 19, 2024 11:11 am - Burlington Stores, Inc., a national discount retailer, is opening a new store in Streamwood. The new location at Westview Shopping Center brings the total number of ...
U.S. consumer sentiment rises slightly on Democratic optimism over Harris’ presidential prospects

By PAUL WISEMAN
Aug 16, 2024 9:42 am - WASHINGTON — A surge in optimism by Democrats over the prospects of Vice President Kamala Harris lifted U.S. consumer sentiment slightly this month. The University of Mic...
U.S. shoppers sharply boosted spending at retailers in July despite higher prices

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Aug 15, 2024 10:42 am - Americans stepped up their spending at retailers last month by the most in a year and a half, easing concerns that the economy might be weakening under the pressure of higher prices and elevated interest rates.
Kamala Harris to propose ban on ‘price gouging’ for food, groceries

By Jeff Stein
Aug 15, 2024 10:24 am - Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will unveil a proposed ban on “price gouging” in the grocery and food industries, embracing a strikingly populist proposal in her most significant economic policy announcement since becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee.
Annual U.S. inflation falls to 3-year low, clearing the way for the Fed to begin cutting rates

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 14, 2024 7:51 am - WASHINGTON — Year-over-year inflation reached its lowest level in more than three years in July, the latest sign that the worst price spike in four decades is fading and ...
Artisan Marketplace in McHenry spotlights women-owned businesses

By Janelle Walker
Aug 13, 2024 11:18 am - Of the nearly two dozen vendors with booths at McHenry’s Artisan Marketplace, all but one is run by women, and that is how Cyndi Sarabia wants it. “I try to promote small...
Furniture store claims portion of former Sears store at Woodfield Mall

By Eric Peterson
Aug 13, 2024 8:03 am - Zellano Home Furniture, a recent tenant of another space at Woodfield Mall, has moved into at least part of the lower level of the former Sears store underneath European retailer Primark.
Americans’ refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to U.S. inflation spike

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 12, 2024 7:13 am - The great inflation spike of the past three years is nearly spent — and economists credit American consumers for helping slay it.
‘It’s something we want to be part of’: Chicago’s Khepri Cafe owners headed along a new track in Mount Prospect

By Steve Zalusky
Aug 11, 2024 5:31 am - Residents of Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood already are familiar with Khepri Cafe, located by the Lawrence stop on the CTA’s Brown Line. Northwest suburban residents now will have a chance to enjoy its eclectic mix of food, alcohol, coffee, live events and local merchandise near the Metra stop in downtown Mount Prospect.

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