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Chicago taxi drivers are seeking a 16 percent fare increase, and threatening a strike if they don’t get it.

Planned U.S. layoffs jumped significantly in September from a year earlier, according to a report released Wednesday by a Chicago-based employment consulting firm.

The Dodgers might not want to come to Chicago if it means facing the Cubs, or rather the thousands of dedicated Cubs fans.

Read previous dispatches The Perfect Getaway  and the 2008 Flugtag.

All photos by Justin Goh.

In the end, The Perfect Getaway and their mob-themed flying machine, The Moberati, made its debut flight in front of an estimated 70,000 onlookers, plunging down into Lake Michigan off the edge of Redbull's 30-foot platform.  The team put hundreds of hours of planning into the event and managed to escape with their lives and dignity intact.  The event itself went off without a hitch, as well, with the weather cooperating. Below we will tell their story in pictures.

When Margaret Humphrey goes shopping, she isn't just shopping for herself; she is shopping for the entire country.

Humphrey is one of the economic assistants for the Chicago regional office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employees that collect the price data that is used to generate the Consumer Price Index, or CPI.

The ideal time to start saving and planning for your child's education
is of course as soon as possible, but perhaps you didn't have the
forethought to open a 529 plan on the day your child was born. The
important thing is to evaluate your financial situation based on the
number of years you have until your child begins college and to make
decisions accordingly.

Maybe you have a teen who is planning to start college in just a
couple of years. Or perhaps you've been saving for a while and want

Companies are looking to lessen their carbon footprints, but their efforts are not always being matched by the cities in which they reside. Take Sopraffina Marketcaffe in Chicago, for instance.

Dan Rosenthal, president of The Rosenthal Group Inc. and owner of Sopraffina, has hit a snag in his effort to turn his five Loop-located restaurants into low-waste producers.

The life of John Haney can be summed up by the 11 words in the "about me" section on his Facebook profile page: video game programmer by day, dad/husband/Mac programmer by night.

The 28-year-old Plano, Ill. resident keeps plenty occupied with his job as a video game programmer at the Chicago-based company Chewy Software LLC. But it's his evenings dallying with Apple Inc.'s iPhone development software that has Haney gaining popularity with the iPhone and iPod Touch crowd.