Murray McCory, JanSport founder who created school backpack, dies at 80
Like Starbucks coffee and Nike running shoes, JanSport backpacks grew out ... bags were ubiquitous in high schools as well. Other companies joined in — L.L. Bean was quick to follow — but for millions ...
‘I was today years old’: Customer discovers something about Amazon bags after turning one inside out
One woman was surprised to discover that she could reuse Amazon's packaging for returns. Some viewers already figured it out.
Murray McCory, 80, Dies; JanSport Founder Created the School Backpack
He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school.
A Simple Way to Give Your Old Clothes a Second Life
About a quarter of the donated clothes are resold successfully in stores. The rest are either sold in bulk or passed on to ...
How to ‘repurpose’ S.A.’s many closed schools? Some ISDs made it work. Some are still deciding.
A year after a cascade of painful shutdowns, school districts are weighing what to do with the buildings. A few successes ...
50 Things The “Weird” Kid At School Did That Still Haunt People Years Later
School's hard and not everybody fits in. According to one study, around 35% of students may have experienced social rejection ...
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Burglars allegedly steal $50,000 worth of designer bags again from small business
For a second time in a year, burglars broke into a resale shop in Old Town Spring and stole $50,000 worth of designer handbags.
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Retailers go old school and return to holiday catalogs, Chicago stores gone but not forgotten
WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to former WGN Newsman Roger Badesch about the return of holiday catalogs, inspired by the old ...
54-year-old lost her kids' $60,000 college fund by spending it on her side hustle—how she got it back, and more
Bogg Bag founder Kim Vaccarella spent her kids’ $60,000 college fund on her business — and it backfired dramatically. Here’s ...
25-year-old spent $300 on a sewing machine in high school—now her seven-figure denim brand is worn by Taylor Swift
Every summer as a teen, the Southern California native would go to Wisconsin to see her grandparents. She'd visit thrift ...
Why don’t goalkeepers wear caps anymore?
A goalkeeper wearing a cap during a match is so rare these days that Guglielmo Vicario doing so this month sparked a pang of ...
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20-year-old system to blame in NAIA bag mishandling
In a statement on Tuesday, NNIC said it is working with budget carrier Cebu Pacific to ensure contingency measures are in place to address issues with the baggage handling system — affecting hundreds ...