Illinois’ dismal business climate continues to inhibit jobs growth, especially in manufacturing, as the state put 25 people on food stamps for every factory job created during the recovery from the Great Recession.
Now that Chicago has lifted its ban on food carts, Chicago’s food entrepreneurs can openly provide food to consumers – and established restaurateurs gain an opportunity to sell their products in new markets.
Caterpillar plans to cut 10,000 jobs and close 20 manufacturing facilities to save $1.5 billion annually.
The city’s culinary entrepreneurs may now pursue an affordable path to a legal livelihood.
Despite being the most populous state in the Midwest, Illinois has added just 13,400 payroll jobs in 2015 – fewer than any other neighboring state.
Driven by a costly tax burden, Chicago’s high cost of goods and services lands the Windy City in the top 10 for the most expensive 71 cities across the world, according to a new survey by UBS.
Illinois lost 2,200 manufacturing jobs in August and is down nearly 10,000 on the year.
Today, the Chicago Committee on License and Consumer Protection voted in favor of an ordinance that would legalize food carts in the city. Now the ordinance moves to the full City Council, which will meet on Sept. 24 for a vote. Chicago is one of the only major U.S. cities that bans food carts; these...
Morton Salt will stop operations in October at its warehousing and packaging facility on Elston Avenue in Chicago.
In the other Great Lakes states, workers are more likely to be able to find a manufacturing opportunity than a government job.
Chicago’s ban on food carts is costing the city jobs and revenue. The city has fallen behind its peers: Street vending from food carts is already legal in 23 of the 25 largest cities in the U.S. The Illinois Policy Institute conducted a survey of nearly 200 Chicago food-cart street vendors to assess the social...
There’s no respite for laid-off Illinois workers in the “summer of pink slips.”
“The day arrived when a policeman told me, ‘Throw away all this trash. It’s worthless. It’s garbage.’ And I said, ‘How can you call food, garbage?’ I cried hard. They arrested me two times. The United States, they told me, is a different kind of place. And now look at how we’re being treated.” Claudia...
Shrinking opportunities go hand in hand with a shrinking tax base.