| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.05.2024 | AI Giants Accused of Content Theft by Major Newspapers | A group of major newspaper publishers, including the Chicago Tribune and The Denver Post, have filed lawsuits against artificial intelligence giants OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the tech companies illegally harvested copyrighted arti... |
| 30.04.2024 | The Denver Post sues OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging tech giants illegally harvested copyrighted articles | The Denver Post and seven other newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming the technology giants illegally harvested millions of copyrighted articles to create their cutting-edge “generative” artificial intelligence products ... |
| 23.01.2022 | Diners at a Florida waterfront restaurant fell into the water after a deck suddenly collapsed, injuring two of them | The incident occurred at Flip Flops Dockside Eatery in Fort Lauderdale. Bill Kingman/Getty Images
Visitors to a Florida waterfront restaurant swam to safety after a dining-area deck collapsed.
The incident occurred at Flip Flops Dockside Ea... |
| 19.09.2021 | A Baltimore neighbourhood’s last remaining restaurant closes down due to a lack of kitchen staff | Cafes are struggling with a persistent labor shortage. Steffi Loos/Getty Images
A cafe in Baltimore has shut down after nearly 13 years in business, due to the labor shortage.
Village Square Cafe was the last restaurant left in the Cross Ke... |
| 12.06.2021 | Tinder swipes left on Match | With closing arguments expected to begin next week, the Tinder/Match trial has once again proven that when things go wrong in the world of online dating, they go very, very wrong.
With the Ashley Madison dumpster fire still in our collectiv... |
| 07.06.2021 | Peloton is in trouble for its Tread+ treadmill. But Sen. John Hickenlooper's family just became investors. | Marianne Ayala/Insider
Peloton was facing federal scrutiny for safety issues when the Hickenloopers invested.
Rep. Virginia Foxx recently bought tobacco stock, but ditched newspapers.
Sen. Jon Ossoff has formed a blind trust to "to avo... |
| 01.04.2021 | The investigation into Matt Gaetz stemmed from a probe into a Florida tax official charged with stalking and sex trafficking, reports say | Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hyatt Regency on February 26, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The probe into Rep. Matt Gaetz is linked to his associate Joel Greenberg, p... |
| 11.11.2016 | GrubHub faces backlash after CEO’s anti-Trump email to employees | GrubHub Inc. Chief Executive Matt Maloney is facing a firestorm after speaking out against President-elect Donald Trump in an email to employees Wednesday, saying if employees don’t agree with creating a culture of support and inclusiveness... |
| 01.04.2016 | Protein Bar to introduce new name, menu to cater to consumers’ changing tastes | “Healthy” just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Chicago-based Protein Bar is changing just about everything — its name, its appearance, its menu — for new restaurants in a move designed to stay abreast of customers’ rapidly changing and increasingly... |
| 22.01.2016 | Who will lead Choose Chicago now? | The announcement that Don Welsh was stepping down as president of Choose Chicago leaves the city’s tourism bureau with a new and pressing sales job — finding the right successor to take over the high-profile position amid major challenges.
... |
| 12.01.2016 | Aldi putting more granola, less chocolate in checkout lanes | Aldi, a grocery discounter with a growing presence in the Chicago area, is overhauling its checkout lanes with healthier food.
By the end of the year, Chicago-area Aldi stores will have “healthier” checkout with nuts, trail mixes, dried fru... |
| 04.01.2016 | From China trading troubles to Middle East unrest, here’s what’s making the markets tremble | 2016 has begun with investors saying, “Yikes.”
The stock market started Monday plunging and continued the same way throughout most of the day in the U.S. and around the world. At its lows the Dow Jones industrial average was down 467 points... |
| 21.08.2015 | Chicago ComEd customers to be charged more for electricity in coming years | Chicagoans will see a portion of their electricity bills rise in coming years because of new electric grid rules tied to the polar vortex, according to power auction results that were made public Friday.
The auction will increase part of th... |
| 17.06.2015 | Airline group backpedals on smaller carry-on standard | You probably won’t need to buy a smaller carry-on suitcase after all.
The international airline association that proposed smaller maximum dimensions for carry-ons and set off a furor backpedaled on Wednesday, saying it would pause the rollo... |
| 18.05.2015 | Summer air travel to break record | Brace yourself for crowded airports and full planes this summer, as air travel is expected to hit a record high, according to a report released Monday.
Some 222 million passengers will take to the skies between June 1 and Aug. 31, up 4.5 pe... |
| 15.05.2015 | Emanuel supports U.S. airlines in subsidies battle | Despite celebrating the arrival of Middle East airlines at O’Hare International Airport, one as recently as last summer, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has joined the chorus of politicians calling for a federal investigation into whether three of those... |
| 13.05.2015 | United ranks last among big airlines in increasingly important metric | The airline industry is evolving from providing just transportation to being more of a hospitality and services business, and by that measure Chicago-based United Airlines is failing, according to the J.D. Power 2015 North America Airline S... |
| 04.05.2015 | United’s lawsuit over hidden-city fares thrown out | An Illinois judge dismissed a United Airlines lawsuit against a website that helps passengers find so-called hidden-city fares to exploit a loophole in the airfare system.
The suit against Skiplagged.com and its owner, 22-year-old programme... |
| 21.04.2015 | America’s airline CEOs cry foul about foreign competition | Chief executives of America’s largest airlines brought their campaign against Persian Gulf carriers to Chicago this week, claiming three Middle East airlines benefit unfairly from government subsidies.
On Tuesday, those U.S. carriers releas... |
| 20.04.2015 | Survey shows satisfaction with airlines at 20-year high | Customers are more satisfied with airlines than they’ve been in 20 years, according to a well-known customer-satisfaction survey that seems to buck other assessments of the industry.
Airline passenger satisfaction rose 2.9 percent over last... |
| 15.04.2015 | O’Hare’s remodeled international terminal racking up record sales | Food and retail sales are soaring at O’Hare International Airport’s international terminal, once dubbed an embarrassment, a year after a $26 million renovation was completed. And employment has nearly doubled.
The international terminal, Te... |
| 15.04.2015 | United Airlines to upgrade food for coach fliers on overseas flights | United Airlines apparently has decided the way to customers hearts — and wallets — is through their taste buds, as the Chicago-based carrier on Wednesday will announce more food upgrades, including free wine and beer for economy passengers ... |
| 09.04.2015 | Airlines more on time in February, but O’Hare ranks poorly | Domestic airlines in February were more on time than a year ago, but departures from Chicago airports were among the tardiest, as usual, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
And the Transportation De... |
| 07.04.2015 | American Airlines, US Airways get FAA approval to fly as one carrier | American Airlines, the world’s largest airline and the second-largest carrier at O’Hare International Airport, received its single operating certificate Wednesday from the FAA, an important behind-the-scenes milestone in its integration wit... |
| 27.03.2015 | United trying to ensure spring break travel doesn’t bite at O’Hare | Traveling during busy seasons like spring break can be, well, ruff.
United Airlines wants to take the edge off at O’Hare International Airport by offering some canine stress relief even if airport security lines are long and flights are del... |
| 26.03.2015 | American to join United in grouping flights at O’Hare | As some travelers escape on spring break this month, they might notice intense busy periods at O’Hare International Airport, as the region’s two largest airlines group their flights into tight time windows throughout the day, creating alter... |
| 25.03.2015 | Garcia touts 2 tax proposals as fixes for city’s finances | After weeks of being criticized by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his surrogates for not offering specific tax increase proposals to fix Chicago’s finances, challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia offered two on Wednesday: a graduated state income tax and a... |
| 24.03.2015 | US Airways frequent-flier accounts to be folded into American Airlines | American Airlines this weekend will begin moving US Airways frequent-flier accounts to its AAdvantage program.
The transfer is one of a number of integration tasks the airline must complete following the December 2013 merger of the two carr... |
| 20.03.2015 | Frontier Airlines to raise some checked-bag fees | Frontier Airlines, which recently has made an aggressive push into the Chicago market, will hike some checked-bag fees starting May 1, most by $5 per flight.
Frontier, which changed its business model last year to include low fares but many... |
| 19.03.2015 | Bill aims to close airlines’ jet fuel tax loophole | Airlines’ ability to avoid some sales tax on fuel purchases in Chicago would disappear under a state bill that would close a well-publicized tax loophole. It proposes funneling the extra tax money to fund public transit for seniors and disa... |
| 19.03.2015 | JetBlue, Southwest top-rated carriers for customer experience | JetBlue and Southwest Airlines deliver the best customer experience in the U.S. airline industry, according to the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual ranking of companies based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers released Thursday.
... |
| 10.03.2015 | United testing new boarding area models at O’Hare | United Airlines is experimenting with prototype boarding areas at O’Hare International Airport with the aim of making the time passengers spend waiting for a flight more comfortable and productive at its gates there.
At gates B-4, B-8 and B... |
| 05.03.2015 | Lawmaker calls for expansion of state role on O’Hare noise | The state would be required to operate a hotline to receive complaints about jet noise from O’Hare International Airport and collect scientific data that “creates an accurate overall portrait of the impact of noise on community quality of l... |
| 05.03.2015 | U.S. airlines to Gulf carriers: ‘Compete fairly’ | America’s largest three airlines came together Thursday to release a report claiming that three fast-growing Persian Gulf carriers have received $42 billion in illegal subsidies from their governments over the past decade.
Officials from Ch... |
| 03.03.2015 | United offers first-class food upgrade at O’Hare lounges | United Airlines is suddenly becoming a foodie among airlines, with its latest announcement expected Wednesday about upgrading the eats at its United Club lounges at O’Hare International Airport.
The Chicago-based airline will launch a new c... |
| 27.02.2015 | Suburbs try new approach in battle over O’Hare jet noise | A suburban group that beginning in the early 1980s led the fight against new runways at O’Hare International Airport is launching a new, non-confrontational strategy to address jet noise, officials said Friday.
The Suburban O’Hare Commissio... |
| 25.02.2015 | United issues warning to pilots after cockpit errors | United Airlines last month issued a stern and blunt bulletin to its pilots expressing concerns over safety.
In the Jan. 9 bulletin, Chicago-based United reportedly called for stricter compliance with cockpit rules and procedures and cited s... |
| 25.02.2015 | United to upgrade food on regional jets | United Airlines on Wednesday said it is upgrading the food offerings on its regional jets for premium-cabin passengers.
Chicago-based United said the new offerings, freshly prepared and served on chinaware, will begin next week for first- a... |
| 20.02.2015 | Consumers actually like airline fees, analyst contends | You know who likes all the fees airlines charge? Customers do, one airline industry analyst contends, and he has an idea for a bunch of new ones.
Revenue from all those airline fees and optional services, called ancillary revenue, rose 7.1 ... |
| 10.02.2015 | Orbitz settles ‘hidden cities’ lawsuit | Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide has settled a lawsuit against a website that helps passengers find so-called hidden-city fares that exploit a loophole in the airfare system.
United Airlines’ suit against the same website is still active.
The... |
| 10.02.2015 | More delayed flights, complaints, lost baggage plague U.S. carriers | Last year was not a stellar one for American fliers.
U.S. airlines arrived on time less often than the year before, had more complaints filed against them, lost passenger luggage at a higher rate and bumped more people from flights, accordi... |
| 05.02.2015 | American Airlines scores big as new official airline of Cubs | American Airlines has signed on as the official airline of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, stealing the designation from hometown carrier United Airlines and starting a major marketing push to boost its name at its Chicago hub.
United, ... |
| 04.02.2015 | Chicago hits benchmark in visitors, taps ‘Epic’ ad campaign to draw more | Chicago crossed the 50 millionth visitor mark in 2014, officials said Wednesday, a 3.5 percent increase over the previous year that kept boat tours, museums and the Magnificent Mile busy, and the city on the heels of New York as a top urban... |
| 21.01.2015 | United Airlines caught in political scrum over in-flight TV channel | Chicago-based United Airlines has been caught in a political crossfire in recent days over a politically conservative news station that was the default channel on flights that offer DirecTV service.
The airline said it had not chosen the de... |
| 19.11.2014 | Southwest takes jab at JetBlue over fee for checked bags | Southwest Airlines in a blog Wednesday touted its new status as the only domestic carrier not to charge a fee for checked baggage, after JetBlue Airways said it would begin charging.
Southwest carries more passengers from Chicago than any o... |
| - | Baltimore neighborhood's last remaining restaurant closes down due to a lack of kitchen staff | Cafes are struggling with a persistent labor shortage. Steffi Loos/Getty Images
A cafe in Baltimore has shut down after nearly 13 years in business, due to the labor shortage.
Village Square Cafe was the last restaurant left in the Cross Ke... |