The jobs themselves won’t move the needle as much as Google’s brand. With 167,560 tech workers, Chicago has the seventh-largest tech workforce in the U.S. “It’s an important signal of ...

Google turns up big in Chicago’s search for a benefactor In buying the Thompson Center, the search engine company is helping state and local governments answer some knotty questions.

That’s typical Silicon Valley logic, and it’s about to be put to the test in Chicago. In July, tech giant Google announced plans to buy and renovate the cavernous James R. Thompson Center in ...

Five local Latino-led startups have been awarded funding from Google for Startups as part of its new Latino Founders Fund initiative. Each startup is set to receive a $100,000 nonequity cash award ...