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January 26, 2018

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Tax season confusion: What you need to know before you file this year

Friday, Jan 26

With the ink barely dry on a new tax law, uncertainty abounds on what moves to make or even what to ask a tax preparer. So what do you need to know before you collect that box of receipts and make the trip to see your accountant?

Debt payments, Icelandic adventures, car repairs: How area workers are spending their tax cut bonuses

Citing tax changes, more than 250 companies have announced bonuses, for about 3 million employees. Experts question whether bonuses have lasting impact.

As United Airlines bulks up to chase more customers, does fare war loom?

ROBERT REED: United Airlines wants to grow its business at O'Hare International Airport while also beating back any ultralow-cost competitors that get in its way. This is a tricky plan, one passengers will like — if it results in lower fares — and investors fear.

When 'Obama: An Intimate Portrait' sold out on Amazon, Chicago-area bookstores cashed in

For a brief period this winter, local bookstores gained a small piece of ground in their ongoing turf war with Amazon. "We had what Amazon didn't," said Portia Turner, a bookseller at The Book Cellar in the Lincoln Square neighborhood.

In unusual compromise, Wacker tower to incorporate building's stainless steel facade

RYAN ORI: Plans to replace the former Morton Salt headquarters on Wacker Drive with an office tower are moving forward, but its stainless steel panels will live on.

U.S trade panel sides with Bombardier, striking down 300 percent tariffs on Canadian-made jets, dealing blow to Boeing

The decision in a contentious trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada is a significant blow to Boeing, and gives an unexpected boost to Airbus, Boeing's closest commercial competitor in the U.S. commercial airline market.

Workplace wellness programs don't work for you or your company

Workplace wellness programs have two main goals: improve employees' health and lower their employers' health-care costs. They're not very good at either, new research finds.

Inside Amazon's spheres, where workers chill in a rainforest

The glass orbs were built to let Amazon workers escape from emails, meetings, reports and deadlines to walk along stone paths beside waterfalls, let ferns from South America brush their shoulders and the moist, tropical air fill their lungs.

Casino mogul Steve Wynn accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, assault

Wynn Resorts is denying multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault by founder Steve Wynn, detailed in a Wall Street Journal report that sent shares of the casino tumbling 9 percent Friday.

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