Illinois flirts with $2-a-gallon gas
Hitting a century mark is usually a big deal. It’s even bigger when it is the price of gasoline — and it is going down.
5 Illinois firms make Black Enterprise ’40 Best Companies for Diversity’
All of the companies that made the list were rated based on diversity in four areas: board of directors, employee base, senior management and supplier diversity. The magazine began publishing the list in 2005.
United Airlines says it will ‘insource’ airport jobs too
United Airlines, which is considering outsourcing up to 2,000 airport jobs, now says that after talking with union leaders it will bring back other jobs that had been turned over to contractors.
Motivated to ride a bike? Divvy’s parent changes its name
Higher-ed tech incubator DV X Labs opens at 1871
Prescient Edge moving headquarters to Chicago
Boeing operations in South Carolina getting new manager
Google expects public in driverless cars in 2 to 5 years
IRS cuts taxpayer services as filing returns gets harder
Dismal report on U.S. retail spending hits the stock market
Holiday shopping slump: U.S. retail sales fell in December
GM sets company sales record buts behind Volkswagen
Teamsters Union announces agreement to end U.S. oversight
Are Chicago’s new grocery deliverers here to stay? [Crain’s]
Facebook, LinkedIn working on products to let businesses create workplace social networks [TechCrunch]
