Whether it’s leveling punishing tariffs, deploying troops to the border or sidelining environmental regulations, President ...

On-the-ground insights have become especially valuable over the last few months as uncertainty about trade and other policies ...

Health care and hospitality jobs fuel the current labor market, but tariffs and federal funding cuts could put those jobs at ...

A recent graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago, Villalpando, 29, took out private loans to pay for college. Unlike federal student loans, private loans typically have higher interest rates ...

Chicago native Warren Baker started buying and converting apartment buildings into student housing in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 1985. His once-scrappy company went on to forge multi-million ...

The head of the Chicago Federal Reserve says tariffs cast uncertainty over Iowa's economy due to its reliance on agriculture ...

Today advocacy groups and consultants influence political parties more than voters and members. In The Great Retreat, ...

The report draws from research from the New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, which found that in 2024 the median net worth for Black Chicago-area households was zero dollars — ...

Goolsbee: Business leaders in the Midwest are waiting to see the full impact of tariffs, with some expressing guarded ...

In its periodic "Beige Book" summary of conditions, the central bank noted that "economic activity has declined slightly ...

A funding crisis, the result of the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to tax the wealthy, threatens catastrophic service ...

"We've had a couple of months of quite good economic reports" with inflation coming down, but those are backward-looking, ...