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Chicagoans who want to farm in the city have had to wade through a lot of red tape. There’s nothing in the city zoning code that formally recognizes urban agriculture.Advocates say vacant neighborhood land is ripe for harvesting vegetables.

Sun-Times Media Group chairman and Mesirow Financial CEO Jim Tyree has died after a battle with stomach cancer. Tyree and other investors bought the struggling Sun-Times group when analysts thought it was on the brink of collapse in 2009.Mesirow Financial president Richard Price says Tyree

Morton's Restaurant Group is considering a possible sale of the company.The Chicago-based steakhouse operator says it is exploring its strategic options and has the support of its two biggest stockholders.Morton's says it has no set timetable for the process and that there's no guarantee that any tr

Sears & Roebuck has been a dominant retailer in the Midwest since it got its start in Chicago almost 120 years ago. It’s hung on while other stores – from Marshall Field's to Montgomery Ward - have stumbled and vanished.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives gave themselves another extension to cobble together a federal budget. Congress now has through April 8 to get its financial house in order. Otherwise the government will shut down.The latest extension proposes another $6 billion in cuts.

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, the Nikkei Stock Average in Japan is taking a plunge. The disaster is also having an impact on the American economy.Japan is one of the world's largest consumers of natural gas."That means that the Japanese economy and their power plants are only

Officials at the Mitsubishi Motors North America plant in central Illinois say they have enough parts to keep making cars for another two weeks but they're awaiting word on whether Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami could lead to production disruptions.Mitsubishi Motors North America spokesman D