A record number of Thanksgiving travelers are expected at O’Hare and Midway
With 2.4 million travelers hitting the roads, Illinois is also nearing a record number of people traveling by car this Thanksgiving season, according to AAA.
Phyllis Cha
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Howard Brown health care workers kick off two-day strike for better pay, benefits
The union’s demands include a raise of the minimum hourly wage from $16.07 to $21, affordable health insurance, layoff protection, remote work options and negotiations before changes of job duties.
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Downtown Chicago theater named one of the most haunted places in the world by Condé Nast
A fire that raged through the Iroquois Theatre in 1903, where the Nederlander Theatre now stands, killed 602 people.
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Chicago announces first city-run composting program with 15 drop-off sites
Chris Sauve, deputy commissioner for sustainability and policy at DSS, said the plan for the food scrap drop-off was created after talks with officials in cities with similar programs
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University of Chicago statistics professor awarded MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’
Rina Foygel Barber is one of 20 to receive $800,000 stipend that “is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations,” according to the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
