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Where's the beef? (Raised, slaughtered and processed?)
Nov 19, 2013
Meatpackers and ranchers are fighting each other over new labeling rules.
In Chicago, piles of petroleum coke suggest the future of Canadian tar sands oil
Nov 18, 2013
A byproduct of refining gasoline clouds the skies of a South Side Chicago neighborhood.
In memoriam: The first of many Tennessee Valley Authority coal plants
Nov 18, 2013
The coal-fired plants being retired by the Tennessee Valley Authority are more than 50 years old.
How do you prevent a 'flash rob'?
Nov 13, 2013
Sports Authority stores in Chicago are getting hit by "flash robs," gangs of shoplifters who are triggered all at once.
Nation's electricity grid gets a test
Nov 12, 2013
The aging grid's main protection against attack is that it's too sprawling and complicated to all go down at once.
In Chicago, a sophisticated new rail fare system that doesn't work
Nov 6, 2013
Chicago's new system offers more features for transit riders -- when it works. The city's transit agency has delayed the phase-out of the old system.
Hands off that iPad, flyers. For just a bit longer.
Nov 1, 2013
The FAA needs to give airline-by-airline approval before you can play "Angry Birds" during takeoff.
Can you hear me now? Not in rural areas
Oct 29, 2013
In rural areas, one out of every 5 land-line long-distance calls doesn't go through.
TV Guide still exists??? Yep, and it's profitable
Oct 24, 2013
Cable television nearly did in TV Guide Magazine. But a few years ago a private-equity firm took it over and remade it.