Mourning actor Gene Wilder, remember there’s no “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” without Quaker Oats. The Chicago company financed beloved 1971 film.
Joe Sutter, the Boeing engineer who ushered in the modern era of long-range travel by spearheading the 747 jumbo jet in the 1960s, has died. He was 95.
Alere Inc. accused Abbott Laboratories of seeking to scuttle the health-care companies’ $5.8 billion merger by failing to get antitrust clearance because of “buyer’s remorse,” according to a newly unsealed lawsuit.
Harvard and Stanford are the only schools to have given more than 10 degrees to current CEOs at Fortune 500 companies. No Illinois school was in the top 10.
Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group has agreed to buy Tribune Tower for up to $240 million, marking the end of media ownership for the historic North Michigan Avenue building and the beginning of a new chapter.