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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...

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CBS Chicago

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.

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NBC Chicago

Portillo's to close up to 9 ‘underperforming restaurants,' company announces

Iconic Chicago hot dog and Italian beef chain Portillo's will close a "select group of underperforming locations," the company announced during a third-quarter earnings call Thursday. The update came as the company said its results were "ahead" of expectations. “Our strategy is centered on running great restaurants, leveraging integrated marketing...

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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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'People are going crazy over the good ones': Chicago home prices are surging more than New York and San Francisco

In one of America's hottest housing markets, not even 7% mortgage rates seem to be slowing down sales. Multiple-offer situations remain a regular occurrence. Realtors prep their buyers to expect months-long searches, while motivated sellers can usually wrap up the entire transaction in a week or less. That's the current...

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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.

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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.

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Main Street Dollars

Homeowners 65 and older get an extra $60,000 off school taxable value in Texas, $20,000 in West Virginia, and up to $9,000 in North Dakota and $8,000 in Illinois

Homeowners 65 and older can have a slice of their home’s value taken out of the property tax calculation, and the size of that slice depends heavily on the state. Texas school districts must give an extra $60,000 homestead exemption, West Virginia exempts the first $20,000 of assessed value, North Dakota reduces taxable valuation by […]

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Block Club Chicago

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Former McGee’s Tavern Site Could Become 5-Story Apartment Building

LINCOLN PARK — The former home of one of Lincoln Park’s best-known late-night sports bars could soon be home to 20 households under a developer’s proposal for a five-story mixed-use building. The proposal for 950 W. Webster Ave., the former site of McGee’s Tavern & Grille, calls...

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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…

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Lincoln Park's Briny Swine Site Eyed for Seven-Story, 47-Unit Building

2577 N. Clark St. — Approximate Site of Proposed 47-Unit Building. The former home of Briny Swine on N. Clark Street could soon give way to a seven-story mixed-use building packed with 47 apartments, 10 of them set aside as affordable housing. An unnamed developer is behind the proposal for 2577 N. Clark, located near the intersection of N. Clark Street and W. Wrightwood Avenue in Lincoln Park.

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CBS Chicago

JW Marriott sues developer over office-to-residential conversion

JW Marriott is suing a Chicago developer working on the city's LaSalle Street Reimagined Initiative, alleging the project is illegally moving forward without the hotel's consent.

fooddive.com

Ferrara to shutter Chicago plant, lay off more than 150 workers

Nerds maker Ferrara said it will close a Chicago manufacturing plant next April as the sweets maker navigates tough market conditions and rethinks its "long-term innovation roadmap.”. An estimated 154 workers will be impacted by the closure of the 31st Street plant, according to a WARN notice filed in Illinois....

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Suburban cleaning company named first Chicago Bears Small Business All-Pro

Co-owners Andre and Carol Kazimierski and PNC Bank’s Sherry Jursa discuss Sophia’s Cleaning Service, its family legacy and community work, and its recognition as the first Chicago Bears Small Business All-Pro of 2026.

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New strength for Chicago industrial market in third quarter

Chicago’s industrial market showed renewed strength in the third quarter of 2026, with leasing activity climbing to its highest level in four years, vacancy declining and tenant demand helping absorb millions of square feet of available space, according to the latest research from Transwestern. Direct leasing activity totaled 17.3...

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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.

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Capitol News Illinois

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Peoples Gas customers to see $56 back in November bill credits

Customers will receive additional $42 credits in 2027 and 2028.

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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 · 1d

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