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Byline Bank Deepens Community Impact Across Oak Park and River Forest

At Byline Bank, community involvement goes beyond banking. Through charitable investments, volunteer service, and leadership in local organizations, Byline remains committed to strengthening the communities it serves. During the reporting period covering Q3 and Q4 2025 and Q1 and Q2 2026, Byline Bank provided more than $51,000 in grants and...

Oak Park, IL · 3d

realtytimes.com

How to Pick the Right Chicago Neighborhood for Your Job and Lifestyle

Chicago is one of the easiest big cities to get wrong when you're choosing where to live, not because the neighborhoods are confusing, but because downtown Chicago isn't one job market. It's several, stacked on top of each other in different pockets. A nurse working rotating shifts at Northwestern Memorial...

Chicago, IL · 5d

canarymedia.com

Chicago program helps people transition from prison to solar jobs

Safer Foundation is using funding from Illinois clean energy laws to give formerly incarcerated people the training and support they need to enter the workforce. Inside a brick building on Chicago’s West Side — once part of a sprawling Sears Roebuck campus — is an adult transitional center, or halfway house, that’s home to 250 men completing sentences for criminal convictions and preparing to reenter society.

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Block Club Chicago

Illinois Delays Hemp THC Ban For 250 Businesses That Sued Over It

CHICAGO — Illinois officials have agreed to temporarily hold off on enforcing the state’s sweeping new restrictions on hemp-derived THC products against roughly 250 businesses involved in a lawsuit challenging the law. The agreement gives businesses more time as they fight the Illinois Hemp Act, which was scheduled...

Illinois · 4d

CBS Chicago

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UPS Store in Bridgeport shuts down with dozens of packages still inside

For more than a week, some Bridgeport residents have visited their UPS Store to find the doors locked, with dozens of packages inside and no way to get them.

electrek.co

Tesla confirms rare new delivery of 50 Semi electric trucks in Chicago

Tesla has confirmed a new batch of Tesla Semi deliveries, with its official Semi account saying today that “Chicago’s first 50 Semis” are on their way to the city. It’s a rare data point. Tesla doesn’t disclose Semi deliveries, and it claims its new Nevada factory can build 50,000 of them a year.

rejournals.com

Chicago’s multifamily sector continues to flex its strength

Chicago’s multifamily market continued to demonstrate strength during the third quarter of 2026, with rents climbing across the city and landlords finding less reason to offer concessions to attract tenants, according to a new report from Cross Street. Average effective rents across the city rose 4.3% year over year...

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WGN News

Hopewell Brewing, other Illinois businesses face significant losses as new hemp law looms

Businesses in Illinois, including Hopewell Brewing Company, are facing significant financial impacts as the Illinois Hemp Act is set to ban the sale of hemp-based, THC-infused beverages at most retail locations starting November 12.

Illinois · 4d

newcity.com

Literary Portals: Chicago’s Indie Bookstore Renaissance Is Built Through Community

Once a month in Evanston, women flock to a little storefront on Main Street for “Hot Moms Night.” The space isn’t a bar or a nightclub, it’s a bookstore. These moms are there to have a drink, listen to good music and talk about books. Betsy...

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The Hill

Fed’s Goolsbee says data center buildout ‘overheating’ economy

Austan Goolsbee, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said Monday that the data center buildout is “overheating” the economy and putting upward pressure on prices. “Now this stuff with the AI data center buildout is, to my eye, starting to look more just like old-fashioned demand overheating,” Goolsbee told Subrina Hudson of…

Chicago, IL · 5d

CBS News

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Ferrara Candy to close Little Village manufacturing plant in April

everafterinthewoods.com

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This Old-School Illinois Butcher Shop Still Cuts From Hanging Cattle And Makes Over 80 Sausages

A carved wooden pig head hands out your number at the door. That’s how your visit starts at one of the most beloved butcher counters in Illinois. The kitchen behind the counter turns out more than 80 kinds of sausages and brats. A smokehouse adds more than 10 kinds of homemade bacon to the lineup.

Chicago, IL · 7d

CBS Chicago

E. coli cases at popular Homer Glen pumpkin farm traced to baby goat

Will County health officials said cases of E. coli in people who visited Bengston's Pumpkin Farm in Homer Glen, Illinois, have been traced back to one baby goat in their petting zoo.

Homer Glen, IL · 4d

NBC Chicago

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Starbucks' viral blind Bearista boxes are here, and fans are lining up to get their paws on them

Long lines were forming outside Chicago-area Starbucks in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday, but it wasn't exactly because of coffee. It's because of cute glass bears. Tuesday, blind boxes of Starbucks' viral "Bearista" glass cups landed at coffeehouses nationwide. According to the coffee giant, the surprise red boxes contain one of five adorable, hand-blown glass cups in the shape of bears: Aspen, Reiny, Bunny and Joy.

southlanddevelopment.org

Stop Training People for Jobs That Aren't Coming

Traditional workforce programs train people to find jobs. But what happens when those jobs don't exist? SDA CEO Bo Kemp makes the case for entrepreneurship as workforce development, explaining how communities can create their own employers, expand business ownership and build stronger local economies. Waiting for a major employer to...

seniorshousingbusiness.com

Senior Resource Group Acquires Community in Metro Chicago for $212.5M

LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. — Senior Resource Group and the TIAA Real Estate Account — which is managed and supported by Nuveen Real Estate — have acquired The Carrington at Lincolnwood in Lincolnwood, roughly 13 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. A partnership between LAMB Properties and Harbert South Bay Partners sold the property for $212.5 million.

Lincolnwood, IL · 5d

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