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United Airlines pilots voiced frustrations with the company over contract negotiations Monday.

The health of a nation's chicken industry can actually be an economic indicator of sorts. The government of Uzbekistan is forcing its civil servants to accept payment in the form of chickens.Joshua Foust has an article pondering the issue in the Atlantic.

Two southwestern Illinois companies are expected to close, and that means nearly 240 workers will lose their jobs within weeks.The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Durham School Services in Belleville and a Carlyle-based injection molding company called Fortis Plastics LLC will be goin

Haymarket Square was located on Randolph Street just east of Halsted, about where the Kennedy now comes through. On this date in 1886, the site became infamous.

State lawmakers make it clear they want retirees to pay a larger share of health costs.

A Chicago alderman said Fisk and Crawford coal power plants on the South Side closing sooner than expected is good news.

The Illinois Commission on Government and Forecasting Accountability on Tuesday rejected recommendations that two state prisons and other facilities be closed, a proposal that’s part of Gov.