Chicago Tribune (March 17)
“The world’s largest Starbucks, the Reserve Roastery in Chicago, will close indefinitely Tuesday. The move comes after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all restaurants and bars across the state to cease dine-in as of Monday at 9 p.m. until the end of March.”
Tags: Bars, Chicago, Close, Dine-in, Illinois, Pritzker, Reserve Roastery, Restaurants, Starbucks
Chicago Tribune (December 17)
“Chicago-based Boeing said Monday that it will suspend production of the Max starting sometime in January.” The 737 Max is the largest U.S. export product. “Shares of major manufacturers that supply Chicago-based Boeing with critical elements of the 737 Max fell Tuesday” and the “ramifications are likely to ripple beyond the factory floor and across both the aviation and manufacturing sectors. The decision could affect the country’s trade balance.”
Tags: Aviation, Boeing, Chicago, Export, Manufacturers, Manufacturing, Production 737 Max, Ripple, Shares, Suspend, Trade balance, U.S.
USA Today (November 12)
An extreme “Arctic blast is affecting 200 million people from Chicago to Texas, and it isn’t over yet.”
Tags: Arctic blast, Chicago, Extreme, Texas, U.S.
Chicago Tribune (April 1)
“The issues in Tuesday’s election for mayor of Chicago are perennials: teetering city finances, gun violence, public schools, City Hall corruption. Either finalist, Lori Lightfoot or Toni Preckwinkle, would be a capable mayor. But let’s pause to celebrate that whoever next leads the city will be unique: Chicago’s first African-American female mayor.”
Tags: African-American, Capable, Chicago, Corruption, Election, Female, Gun violence, Lightfoot, Mayor, Preckwinkle
Chicago Tribune (January 30)
“This is at least the third polar vortex intrusion Chicago has endured in the past five years, as the cold air mass engulfed the area in January 2014 and February 2015. As temperatures in the Arctic continue to rise, polar vortex intrusions could become more common in the Midwest and the Northeast.”
Tags: 2014, 2015, 2018, Arctic, Chicago, Cold, Endure, Midwest, Northeast, Polar vortex, Temperatures
Inc. (October Issue)
“Roughly 3,000 startups are located in Chicago. Nearly 34 percent are run by women–the most of any major U.S. city.”
CNN (August 20)
“Someone gets shot an average of about once per hour. That was the sobering reality in Chicago this weekend, when at least 58 people were shot.” Chicago’s “latest rash of violence happened despite an additional 600 officers on the streets.”
Chicago Tribune (August 7)
Chicago experienced a “weekend from hell, when outbreaks of gunfire killed 12 people and injured at least 62″ Then, “the carnage” continued on Monday. But “gun violence in Chicago is random the way destructive wind gusts are random. You can brace yourself but still not anticipate the location or severity of a blast. Monday easily could have been the quiet after the storm.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t. “At least 10 people were shot in eight incidents Monday on the South and West sides.”
Tags: Carnage, Chicago, Destructive, Gunfire, Incidents, Location, Outbreaks, Random, Severity, Violence
Chicago Tribune (January 2)
“Who said: ‘Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.’ Could have been Uber’s CEO, but no, it was George Halas, founder of the Bears.” As the Chicago Bears look for a new coach, it’s worth contemplating “heavy industries, or digital startups… business and sports share immutable truths about organizational ability and consequential success. Much of work life is a competition, right? Good bosses, like good coaches, are strategists and motivators who build strong teams. Games like football teach those lessons in fundamental ways that are useful in every field, including non-contact sports like accounting.”
Tags: Accounting, Bears, CEO, Chicago, Coach, Competition, Digital startups, Halas, Heavy industries, Motivators, Sports, Strategists, Uber
Chicago Tribune (November 3)
“The most epic drought in sports history is over, and the Cubs are world champions. After 108 years of waiting, the Cubs won the 2016 World Series with a wild 8-7, 10-inning Game 7 victory over the Indians. The nearly five-hour roller-coaster game “was a perfect ending for a franchise that had waited forever for just one championship, and your stomach never will be the same. This is not a dream. The Cubs did it.”
Tags: Baseball, Champions, Chicago, Cleveland, Cubs, Drought, Epic, Indians, Roller coaster, World Series
