New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday proposed temporarily closing all schools and non-essential businesses in nine zip codes that have seen Covid-19 test positivity rates above 3% for at least seven consecutive days.
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The economic forces set off by the pandemic are crushing traditional banks. Yet Chime, a startup taking aim at big banks, is booming. And it doesn’t have a single bank branch.
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Zico is soon joining Odwalla in the beverage graveyard, as Coca-Cola announced plans to discontinue production of the coconut water in the coming months.
Read MoreAdd last-minute holiday shopping to the list of time-honored traditions being upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Retailers are kicking off the holiday season earlier than ever this year in hopes of avoiding big in-store crowds and shipping bottlenecks in November and December.
Read MoreCineworld Group Plc said Monday that 536 Regal cinemas in the U.S. and 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse venues in the U.K. would close on Thursday. Some 45,000 employees are affected.
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Jennifer Lorincz loved her job as a sales manager for a fabric company, even though it meant traveling across six states from New York to Indiana. But in August, she joined what has become the fastest growing part of the labor market — workers who have permanently lost their job.
Read MoreSome key details — such as the amount of tax incentive to be provided — are still to be determined, but a milestone will be reached Tuesday in the long and deliberate process to reinvent Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills.
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Wildfires across California have burned “well over” 4 million acres so far this year, the state’s fire agency said Sunday.
Read MoreA White House physician’s comments on Sunday about the health of President Donald Trump amid his coronavirus diagnosis added a new layer of confusion even as the doctor sought to clarify contradictory statements from the day before. And a brief motorcade ride outside the hospital to the cheers of supporters appeared at odds with a patient receiving COVID-19 treatments.
Read MoreGrowing up in south suburban Dolton, Ray Cortopassi fondly remembers another Ray — the legendary children’s show performer Ray Rayner — who was a fixture on WGN-Channel 9 for 20 years. Tonight begins the era of a new Ray at “Chicago’s Very Own” as Cortopassi debuts alongside Micah Materre as co-anchor of the station’s 5, 6, 9 and 10 p.m. Monday-through-Friday newscasts.
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