Business Columns
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Railway gridlock fix should equal better service for Metra ridersAug 06, 2018 5:30 am - How will railroad bridges and new tracks in Chicago get Naperville and Lisle riders on Metra's BNSF Line to work and home faster? By removing 9,600 passengers and 30 tra...
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Finding workers: What our peers sayAug 06, 2018 1:00 am - With unemployment numbers running about 4 percent - sometimes a tad lower - finding workers can be an issue. How big an issue seems to depend upon the industry. Therefor...
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Feder: What's holding up sale of the Reader?Aug 06, 2018 1:00 am - On June 15, Edwin Eisendrath stood before the Rainbow PUSH Convention at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and revealed the sale of the Chicago Reader to a group led by Dorothy ...
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Over 50, out of work and in despairAug 05, 2018 1:00 am - Q: After working as a librarian for 13 years, I took two years off to care for a dying family member. I came back at the height of the recession, when jobs in my field b...
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Feder: Cheryl Scott engagement tops most-read posts in JulyAug 02, 2018 1:00 am - The engagement of ABC 7 meteorologist Cheryl Scott and Chicago DJ Dante "Dante the Don" Deiana atop a Hawaiian volcano, and news that Brian Hanley had been cut as mornin...
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Feder: The changing voices of morning drive on Chicago radioAug 02, 2018 1:00 am - If the radio voices that wake you up in the morning or keep you company on your way to work sound different lately, you're in good company, Robert Feder writes. At least...
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Feder: Nowhere to go but up for CBS 2 news bossAug 01, 2018 1:00 am - Jeff Harris just stepped into what may be the toughest job in Chicago television, Robert Feder writes. As the new vice president and news director of CBS-owned WBBM-Chan...
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Feder: Charles Thomas quits WVON morning show: 'I'm getting my life back'Jul 31, 2018 1:00 am - In the latest Chicago radio surprise, longtime political journalist Charles Thomas has resigned as co-host of Maze Jackson's morning show on WVON 1690-AM, the Midway Bro...
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IDOT reinvents traffic signs - no ketchup allowedJul 30, 2018 5:30 am - An edgy, hip traffic sign? Some suburban drivers thought they were hallucinating, but the digital message proclaiming "No speeding, No texting, No ketchup" that appeared...
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Who needs sleep? Healthy workersJul 30, 2018 1:00 am - Q: My employer is offering a voluntary sleep health program through an outside vendor, including professional sleep testing at no charge. What do you see as the pluses a...