CHICAGO (CBS) – U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January, a mark exceeding all expectations. That figure is about three times higher than many economists’ predictions. But how does Chicago compare …
Quintin Scott graduated Sunday from Chicago’s Crane Medical Prep High School with a head start to becoming a professional welder and a direct pipeline to Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The two …
By ABC7 Chicago Digital Team CHICAGO (WLS) — On Thursday, there will be a hospitality hiring event at Palmer House hotel in Chicago. But applications have a pre-registration Tuesday deadline. There …
The Chicago Department of Public Health and Malcolm X College have partnered to train members of the COVID Response Corps to knock on doors and have difficult discussions about vaccines …
When Armani Nightengale waited in the car last March to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at the United Center, her husband was more nervous than she was. Over the next couple …
As COVID-19 cases rise, some members of Chicago’s COVID-19 Community Response Corps say they’re prepared to handle the winter months. Earlier in the pandemic, the program began by focusing on …
Jacquie Johnson, 54, lost her job by choice — the kind of choice most of us wouldn’t hesitate to make. When it came to getting back to work, she made …
CHICAGO (WLS) — Hire Chicago, the city’s five-week hiring initiative, is focused on technology careers this week. Register on Monday to participate in virtual workshops. There are also some in-person …
The new collaborative effort Hire Chicago has been working to find unemployed Chicagoans a job. Karin Norington-Reaves, chief executive officer at the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership and a lead collaborator in the program, said …
CHICAGO (WLS) — April is Second Chance Month in the U.S., a time to focus on the challenges and opportunities for formerly incarcerated people, including the career obstacles after reentry. …