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  • FILE – The air traffic control tower stands at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)Lifestyle

    Southwest Airlines flight forced to abruptly pull out of landing to avoid crashing into errant jet crossing Chicago runway

    By Corey Williams, Kathleen Foody, and others
  • smartphone screen shows facial-recognition softwareTech

    An AI startup that doesn’t have enough cash to settle a privacy lawsuit is giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s value instead

    By Kathleen Foody and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday, April 20, 2023, to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Tech

    Twitter is a check mark mess and fake accounts are already popping up claiming to be city agencies and politicians

    By Matt O'Brien, Kathleen Foody, and others
  • J.B. PritzkerSuccess

    ‘It just drives the cost up’: 40 hours per year of mandatory time off in Illinois is just too much to ask for some local entrepreneurs

    By Claire Savage, Kathleen Foody, and others
  • Highland Park shootingPolitics

    Survivors of July 4 mass shooting claim Smith & Wesson ads target potential mass shooters

    By Kathleen Foody and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Secretary of State Madeleine Albright greets US Soldiers at Bondsteel camp near Urosevac, some 35 kms. south of Pristina, July 29, 1999. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)Leadership

    Albright acted as model, mentor for generations of women

    By Kathleen Foody and The Associated Press
  • Grubhub app logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen photographed for illustration on a plate and with cutlery. Krakow, Poland on February 9, 2021. Numbers show that the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a significant increase of meals ordered online through food delivery apps and websites.Tech

    Chicago: DoorDash and Grubhub mislead restaurants and customers

    By Kathleen Foody and The Associated Press
  • In this Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019 photo, marijuana products are displayed at the Rise cannabis store in Mundelein, Ill.Politics

    Legal Marijuana Sales May Spark Interstate Tension in the Midwest

    By Kathleen Foody, David Eggert, and others
  • US-CHARITY-SALVATION ARMYTech

    No Cash? Now You Can Donate to the Salvation Army Using Apple Pay or Google Pay

    By Kathleen Foody and The Associated Press
  • Columbine High School Shooting

    ‘They Want to Experience It.’ Why Columbine Might Be Demolished 20 Years After School Shooting

    By Kathleen Foody and The Associated Press