Kraft Heinz posts $8 billion profit, but misses 4Q forecasts
Kraft Heinz Co. is reporting a fourth-quarter profit of $8 billion. The company, with headquarters in Chicago and Pittsburgh, said Friday it had profit of $6.52 per share. Earnings, adjusted for...
View ArticleCME Group legend Leo Melamed, who modernized Chicago trading, is retiring:...
Leo Melamed likes a good drag race. As a young man, Melamed would put pedal to the metal to his new Corvette and fly along a stretch of open road in Indiana, just over the Illinois border. “It was a...
View ArticleMaking the Three Star selections for the Blackhawks' death spiral of a season
Landing on Snark Place: The Bulls, who have spent the season trying to tank, entered the All-Star Break trailing seven teams for the league’s worst record. The Blackhawks, who have spent the season...
View ArticleSEC kills Chinese-linked takeover of Chicago Stock Exchange
U.S. regulators rejected a bid by a Chinese-linked consortium to take over the Chicago Stock Exchange, extinguishing an ambitious dream of starting an international listing venue from a minuscule...
View Article2018 Winter Olympics: TV schedule and highlights
More than 90 countries will send roughly 2,900 athletes to compete in the Pyeongchang Olympics. There are 102 events — most in Olympic history — including four making their debuts: big air...
View ArticleLINDA C. BLACK HOROSCOPES for 2/16/18
Today's Birthday (02/16/18). Your influence and professional stature blossom this year. Methodically plan and strategize. Prepare to provide a powerful personal performance this spring. Physical...
View ArticleNRA brainwashing, the Parkland massacre and the pitiful lie that gun laws...
A day after 17 people were murdered in a Florida high school by a teenager toting a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle, Sen. Marco Rubio said this: “If someone has decided ‘I'm going to commit...
View ArticleWith small swipe at Trump, Mitt Romney launches bid for U.S. Senate
Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential standard-bearer, launched his anticipated political comeback Friday by announcing his front-running bid for U.S. Senate with an ode to Utah and a...
View ArticleLike many great champions, Mikaela Shiffrin is compelling, and human, in defeat
Mikaela Shiffrin, paragon of success, is a mysterious treasure, a wondrous skier who exists for us to marvel but not understand. At her best, she's superhuman. She's inexplicable. She does compelling...
View ArticleGuessing game begins for Cubs leadoff man with no obvious choice in sight
In the grand scheme of things, the endless debate over who will lead off for the Cubs this season is meaningless. But because Joe Maddon’s lineup machinations always are part of the daily discussion,...
View ArticleWest Chicago High School teachers, board of education avoid strike with...
High school teachers in West Chicago will not be going on strike Friday after a tentative contract agreement was reached Thursday night, according to school and union officials. “We are grateful the...
View ArticleMorning Spin: Another Legionnaires' case at veterans home plagued by deadly...
Welcome to Clout Street: Morning Spin, our weekday feature to catch you up with what's going on in government and politics from Chicago to Springfield. Subscribe here. Topspin Just a few hours after...
View ArticleFire Berrios. Vote for Kaegi.
On Thursday an independent study confirmed that the Cook County assessor, Joseph Berrios, has been issuing deeply flawed property valuations that discriminate in favor of wealthy homeowners at the...
View ArticleChicago Auto Show winners and losers
Like a February snowstorm, the Chicago Auto Show blew into town with great hullabaloo then seemed to fade. But the biggest weekend of the 110th installment of the nation’s largest and longest-running...
View ArticleJapan's Yuzuru Hanyu leads heading into Saturday's long program as Nathan...
In the final practice before Friday's men's short program at the Gangneung Ice Area, there were signs that all was not well with U.S. champion Nathan Chen. The country's best hope of an individual...
View ArticleRoster rundown: At a position of flux, Kyle Fuller helped Bears cornerbacks...
Part 9 of an 11-part review of the 2017 Bears season. It didn’t play out the way the Bears imagined after overhauling the cornerback position for 2017, but the results had to be as good as they could...
View Article'One of the saddest, most depressing moments': Norridge District 80 board...
Norridge School District 80 Board members voted reluctantly Tuesday night to eliminate the district's band program beginning next school year. Officials cited the need to act on the district's...
View ArticleSuspect confessed to Florida school attack, carried extra ammo and fired for...
The teenager accused of using a semi-automatic rifle to kill 17 people at a Florida high school confessed to carrying out one of the nation's deadliest school shootings and carried extra ammunition in...
View ArticleSpeaker Madigan: 'I take responsibility' for not doing enough on sexual...
Amid rising frustration within his party, Speaker Michael Madigan on Friday said he shoulders “responsibility” for failing to do more to ensure equality in the statehouse and on the campaign trail....
View ArticleAnthony Rizzo makes Joe Maddon and Jason Heyward proud
Jason Heyward initially didn’t realize Anthony Rizzo left spring training suddenly to help his Parkland, Fla., community heal from a mass shooting Wednesday. But Heyward and manager Joe Maddon were...
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