Summer turns to fall in change of taste series In the lead-up to Labor Day becoming a national holiday, there was a strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago in 1894 and later a boycott ...

CHICAGO — Labor Day is the final day for open swimming this summer at the city’s beaches. And while abundant sunshine will bathe Chicago’s beaches on Monday, it remains too dangerous to swim ...

Small Business Administration to exit Chicago over sanctuary city status May 1 has traditionally been a day for labor rights marches, but the resistance council in defense of immigrants ...

On the fifth day of the Compass Group dining workers’ strike, members of Students Organizing for Labor Rights and the Chicago Federation of Labor assembled at The Arch early Friday afternoon to ...

Check out the Labor Day Weekend-Long Party at Lawn on D in the ... The most notable event is the free Chicago Jazz Festival at Millennium Park. Even better, the Chicago Cubs will host the Atlanta ...

His final words inspired unionists and anarchists alike: "The day will come when ... Oscar Neebe came to Chicago in 1875. A declared communist, Neebe organized labor demonstrations and anarchist ...