Robert Channick

Robert Channick is a business reporter for the Tribune. A former broadcast consultant and radio station manager, he began freelancing for the Chicago Tribune in 2002, joining the Tribune staff as a business reporter in 2011. He has a bachelor's degree in English from Kenyon College and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.

A rented vintage DeLorean, replicating the car from the 1985 movie “Back to the Future,” is displayed at Allstate’s Northbrook/Glenview headquarters on July 1, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

On 40th anniversary of ‘Back to the Future,’ Allstate celebrates its role in creation of DeLorean time machine

July 3, 2025 at 6:02 p.m.

Without Allstate, Marty McFly might never have left 1985.

Laura Lippman, a best-selling author and former Baltimore Sun reporter, on her book’s dedication to the victims of the Capital Gazette attack: “They deserved to be memorialized. They were doing their job, a job that is upheld in the Constitution as one of the pillars of our democracy.”

Memorial to fallen journalists in Washington will be built by Chicago architect

March 14, 2024 at 3:51 p.m.

A national memorial to fallen journalists conceived in the wake of the deadly June 2018 mass shooting at the newsroom of The Capital will have a strong Chicago connection.

El Chicago Auto Show vuelve a su máximo tamaño por primera vez desde la pandemia

February 10, 2023 at 9:14 p.m.

Después de tres años de interrupción por la pandemia que vio aplazamientos, reducciones y una edición especial de verano al aire libre, el Auto Show de Chicago está trabajando a...

La carrera callejera de NASCAR de Chicago anuncia la programación del concierto del 4 de julio y la venta general de boletos

January 25, 2023 at 4:55 p.m.

La inaugural NASCAR Chicago Street Race, la carrera callejera de Nascar de Chicago, que convertirá a Grant Park en un circuito de carreras temporal durante el fin de semana del...

Lawmakers drop journalism act from ‘must-pass’ defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook

December 7, 2022 at 9:27 p.m.

An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual "must-pass" defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to...

Facebook threatens to remove all news content if bill forcing payments to local media outlets passes

December 6, 2022 at 11:30 p.m.

Meta/Facebook is threatening to remove all local news from its platform following reports that proposed legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for news content is being added to...

Legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for online news headed to Senate

September 22, 2022 at 9:09 p.m.

Proposed legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for aggregating news content online is headed for the Senate after the Judiciary Committee approved a revised amendment addressing censorship concerns...

Legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for online news ‘blown up’ by censorship amendment

September 8, 2022 at 9:24 p.m.

Proposed legislation that would force Big Tech to pay publishers for aggregating news content online stalled in the Judiciary Committee Thursday after an amendment introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz to...

Aumenta robo de catalizadores en Chicago, los quitan en un minuto, sustituirlos lleva hasta meses

September 7, 2022 at 8:46 p.m.

Cuando Ken Shay, habitante de Lincoln Park desde hace mucho tiempo, salió a arrancar su todoterreno Lexus RX 350 de 2013, estacionado cerca de su departamento en North Lakeview Avenue,...

Big Tech could be forced to pay for online news under legislation aimed at helping local publishers

August 23, 2022 at 3:07 p.m.

The newspaper industry, which has been struggling with deep ad revenue declines in the digital age, is backing proposed legislation that would force Big Tech to pay publishers for aggregating...

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