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The Chicago Bears will see some unfamiliar faces on the field when the season starts Sunday September 9th. That's becasue the labor strife between the National Football League and its referees will continue into the regular season.

Thousands of steelworkers in Northwest Indiana are set to go on strike if a new contract cannot be worked out with two major steel producers. There hasn’t been a strike of steelworkers in Northwest Indiana since 1959. That streak could end by Sunday if a contract isn’t worked o

The USDA estimates farmers will receive a net income of $122.2 billion – almost four percent more than 2011, because of higher prices and crop insurance.

Five Illinois organizations are getting federal money to help youths finish high school and get job training.

Workers at a northern Illinois factory whose jobs are being moved to China plan to travel to next week's Republican National Convention in Florida to try once again to get presidential candidate Mitt Romney to save their jobs.

The CTA's new plan isn't all that great when you think about it, Rep. Joe Walsh defends Rep. Todd Akin, and more mind-blowing images from Mars.

Hundreds of Chicago Teachers Union delegates met Wednesday evening for an update on contract negotiations. And in a largely symbolic show of support for the union, they voted to give their president a power she already had: the ability to issue a ten-day strike notice at her discretion.