McDonald's announced that they would no longer be selling beef treated with ammonium hydroxide - otherwise known as "pink slime." more ›

On this date in 1990, the first McDonald's restaurant opened up in the Soviet Union and served 30,000 people. more ›

A pair of drive-thru patrons to a Galesburg McDonald's must have thought the "No shirt, no shoes, no service" policy applied to dine-in orders only. more ›

Sparboe Farms, the country's fifth-largest egg producer and a major supplier of eggs to McDonald's, has just been cited by the FDA for a whole series of health and sanitation violations. The citation was released Wednesday and it took McDonald's wasted no time to ditch Sparboe. more ›

(Legendary Chicago-based photographer Art Shay has taken photos of kings, queens, celebrities and the common man in a 60-year career. In this week's look at his photography archives, Art shares some never before seen photos of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc and looks back at working with McDonald's.) more ›

The filing came a day after Smithfield launched a campaign to ensure investors and customers that their pork was raised and treated humanely. Smithfield is the pork supplier to McDonald's, home of the McRib. more ›

Someone up in the ivory tower of the Chicago Board of Trade showered Occupy Chicago protesters with McDonald's job applications. more ›

The Golden Arches' take on popcorn chicken was tested in Detroit and Australia and, if Facebook comments are a measure of success, McDonald's customers Down Under were left wanting more. more ›

Today serves as the starting point for a week-long warming trend. more ›

One would think the Flagship McDonald's would have heightened security. more ›

Consumer Reports, after a survey of some 36,000 consumers, has evaluated the fast food industry in America. They asked people about 53 different chain restaurants. The results? Not so great, especially for some of the larger chains. The winner, both of the hamburger category and the overall best-of-show, was In-N-Out Burger, which we sadly don't have in Chicago. But Five Guys, which we do, was the second-best burger chain. more ›

McDonald's has been getting some traction in the news cycles regarding its nationwide job search today. The Oakbrook-headquartered company is looking to hire 50,000 people to jobs ranging from restaurant crew members to salaried management today. (Here is a list of McDonald's 1,500 open job availabilities in the Chicago area.) more ›

The Sun-Times reports today on a Palatine man who's training for the Los Angeles Marathon while eating at McDonald's every day. Joe D'Amico is hoping to beat his personal best time of 2 hours, 36 minutes and he's been eating his three quares a day under the Golden Arches for the past two weeks. “My wife told me I was crazy,” D'Amico said. We'd be inclined to agree. But with all the training D'Amico has done (which he's charted in detail at McRunner.com), he's pretty lean. And that's a lot of carbs and fat to burn off. more ›

We thought finding hair in our food was bad enough, but it looks like things always could be worse: a woman sued McDonald's yesterday after she bit into and chewed on a glass shard in her McChicken sandwich. The woman, Vjollca Lecaj, had dined at a McDonald's restaurant in Oak Lawn on August 5 of last year when the incident occurred. more ›

A new restaurant chain promising "healthy" eating will begin opening restaurants around the country this fall. "LYFE Kitchen," which is based in Chicago and owned by two former McDonalds execs and Oprah Winfrey's personal chef, is betting that now is the moment for healthy food to make a killing in the market. We love healthy food, but this concept has some issues from the get-go: their horrible name, their definition of healthy food and their strange gender politics. more ›

We admit it - sometimes we miss fabulous internet phenomena. On the other hand, you probably do too, and sometimes a story is just too amazing to pass up, even if it is (gulp) three years old. Minnesota Monthly writer Dara Grumdahl created the Burger Inherent Awesomeness Quotient in 2008, but an equation of such import is still relevant today. Heck, we think it should've won some sort of prize for mathematical genius. The problem Grumdahl faced, during a roundup of the best burgers in the entire state, was keeping a solid set of criterion which didn't let the most expensive burgers with the fanciest ingredients trump the diners. The result was this miraculous equation. more ›

On the list of worst jobs, working the drive-thru window at McDonald's during the graveyard shift has to be one step below being asked to do the "chocolate shake" dance at Wiener's Circle. Or being Jackee Harry's personal shopper. more ›

WebMD, that haven for self-diagnosis, has created a great slideshow describing the nutritional information for some of the best and worst sandwiches in American fast food restaurants. This slideshow is particularly useful because instead of the standard preaching about avoiding all fast food, the authors have given us suggestions for eating relatively well at most of the major chains. It's also slightly shocking how many calories are packed into these sandwiches, especially at the "healthier" chains like Panera. more ›

For the last few months, the internet has been all a-tizzy watching time-lapse photographs of a McDonalds hamburger failing to rot, despite sitting out on a counter for months and months at a time. Horrified consumers have wondered if the sheer artificiality of these foodstuffs make them incapable of decomposing. Salon and Comsumerist have both written stories explaining the "why" of the burgers - they don't have enough moisture, the bread has preservatives. Some burgers have sat for more than 10 years, though the current crazy was started as an art project by Sally Davies, who decided to take pictures of a happy meal every day until it rotted. It never did. more ›

McDonald's continues to give its stockholders reason to squeal. The Oak Brook-based company saw its profits for the third quarter increase by 10 percent, exceeding expectations and outpacing the company's performance for the same time frame last year. more ›

Oak Brook-headquartered McDonald's is coming under heat from LGBT activists following a contentious statement made by the company's number-two in a Trib interview. The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest LGBT business association, has announced it's cut all ties with the fast-food giant. more ›

A downtown McDonald's located inside 233 N. Michigan has started offering a catering service to its building and other adjoining office buildings at 111 E. Wacker and 205 and 225 N. Michigan. Although their delivery selection is less extensive than their regular menu, they will deliver such fast food favorites as Big Macs and Egg McMuffins to your conference room with white-tablecloth service included, for a minimum of 10 people. "It's not like a lot of the fast-food restaurants in the building that say they cater," says Darren Remmer, catering manager of the McDonald's, to the Chicago Sun-Times. "There's a difference between catering and delivery." more ›

Anthony tipped us off Friday, via Consumerist, Fast Company and a host of others, to this intriguing and informative series of maps showing which fast food chains dominate various territories throughout the U.S. more ›

McDonald's will be giving away 5,000 free pre-paid transit cards and 5,000 coupons for a free Angus Third Pounder burger during morning rush tomorrow. The promotion is part of its “Try Free, Ride Free” campaign, mainly to promote the Angus Third Pounders — if you remove the "g" from "Angus" and the "h" from "Third" you'll have an idea of what we think of the burgers — but a free ride to work is alright, as well. 'Course, if you eat enough of these burgers, you won't be able to fit into your seat on the train and have shortness of breath running to catch your bus, but the latter is exercise. So that's good. more ›

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, well-known for attention-grabbing stunts (as evidenced by this simple and totally NSFW Google search) has enlisted Andy Dick and Martin Short to produce a clever two minute short to draw attention to its campaign to pressure McDonald's to improve its treatment of chickens. more ›

An infected McDonald's employee who didn't practice proper hygiene has caused a stir in Northwest Illinois. It seems the worker had hepatitis A and may have spread the disease. According to Fox, the worker was at the Milan, IL McDonald's and worked July 6 - 10 and 13 - 14. People who ate at the restaurant during those days are eligible for free treatment courtesy of the Rock Island Dept. of Health at Rock Island High School today and tomorrow. Though officials haven't confirmed if they're related, 20 cases of hepatitis A were recently confirmed throughout Rock Island, Mercer, Henry, Warren and Woodford counties. [FOX 32] more ›

The Caucus of Rank and File Educators (C.O.R.E.) -- the reform caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union -- and teachers from Holmes Elementary School on the south side are planning to picket the McDonald's at 1554 E. 55th Street as well as the Walgreens across the street this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. to, as they say in a press release, "inform the public of their anger toward big-business for meddling with public education." more ›

Since the Jan. 9 announcement that Chicago Public Schools may close six schools in its district, outspoken critics of Renaissance 2010 - Mayor Daley’s plan to close 70 troubled schools and open 100 new ones by 2010 - have been taking names and voicing their concerns to whomever will listen. On Saturday, parents and teachers added two more enemies to their list: McDonald’s and Walgreens. According to WGN radio, hundreds gathered outside a North Side McDonald’s and Walgreens for a Valentine’s Day protest against the corporations’ support of the plan. more ›

• Stick-em-up: a man robbed a Logan Square McDonald's today armed only with a stick.
• Police seized drugs and weapons as well as arrested Casey Crawford during an overnight raid at a condo apparently owned by Chicago Police Asst. Supt. Beatrice Cuello. Neither Cuello nor her daughter, who also lives at the condo, were suspected of any wrong-doing.
• A state appeals court has ruled jailed former governor George Ryan should be allowed to receive part of his pension. Ryan will receive $65,000 a year.

ESPN's website recently featured an app that compares your annual income to that of your favorite ball player. Let's see... assuming we're in the uppermost tax bracket (humor us, dividing by zero isn't an option) C.C. Sabathia would out-earn us in approximately 4.1 innings of “work.” Sigh. These tough economic times only exacerbate the disparity between the layman and the star athlete, which makes it that much harder to stomach their oh-so-classy antics. Thankfully, though, we've got the Chicago Blackhawks around to restore the faith. more ›