A century ago, when Daniel Burnham was noodling his Plan of Chicago, he famously urged civic leaders to make no little plans. “Make big plans,” he added. Less known is the advice Burnham gave in the very next sentence: “Aim high in hope and work.” When Peter McKnight launched his Jamaica Jerk Villa restaurant at…
If you wonder why this jobs-hungry city has a reputation as a hard place to do business, read on. Looks to us like developers of a big Ford dealership planned for the North Side got tutored in Chicago-style political muscle. It’s a familiar story in a city and state where elected officials, in the words…
The Chicago Bears were watching instead of playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl, but that could change next year now that the team has hired a coach from a rising star among nations: Canada. Yes, Canada. Boring, eager-to-please Canada is taking Chicago by storm — in a nice way, of course. It isn’t just the arrival of Marc…
The U.S. needs all the jobs it can get, and we’re all for employers bringing factory work back here from China and other foreign locales. We support American manufacturing — period. But the nation is not going to see the return of loads of jobs that have been lost to outsourcing. The U.S. will prosper…
Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall, of Sterling, Ill., were 14-year-old best friends whose Facebook page describes how they laughed together every day. They died side by side Monday, electrocuted while working in an Illinois cornfield. Anyone who grew up in Midwest farm country is familiar with the annual summer ritual of removing tassels from seed…
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