British aerospace and defense company BAE is expanding its Minnesota operations with a manufacturing facility in Maple Grove. BAE Systems Land & Armaments has filed plans with Maple Grove to build a 167,000-square-foot facility that will house office, manufacturing and warehouse space and could employ as many as 500 workers. The company already has a facility on East River Road in Minneapolis ...
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A longtime Chicago political operative pleaded guilty Tuesday to a scheme to bribe then-state Sen. Martin Sandoval on behalf of a suburban construction company that needed state approval for a development in East Dundee. William Helm, the onetime deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Aviation and a former state transportation official, also admitted in a plea agreement with ...
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Michael Fassnacht, the outgoing CEO of World Business Chicago, has landed a new gig as president of the Chicago region and chief growth officer for Clayco, a real estate development and construction powerhouse. Clayco, which moved its headquarters to Chicago from St. Louis more than a decade ago, has its hands in a number of major projects, from building the new Rivian EV truck plant in ...
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Feb. 2—The completion of Intel's $20 billion chip manufacturing plant in New Albany has been pushed back due to demands and the business climate, according to media reports. Intel said that while the company had not met the 2025 production goal it anticipated when the project was first announced in January 2022, "construction has been underway since breaking ground in late 2022 and we have not ...
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Jan. 29—Motorists traveling on Interstate 71 can see the progress of a new water line that will run more than 20 miles north along the west side of the highway to a multi-billion dollar joint-venture electric vehicle battery plant being constructed in Fayette County by Honda and LG Energy Solutions. Construction crews from Fillmore Construction are installing the 24-inch wide pipeline that ...
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An ordinance that would all but ban natural gas in new Chicago buildings has gained the key support of Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is hoping the proposed overhaul on emissions standards will deliver his next progressive victory. Aldermen who support the legislation touted it at a Tuesday City Hall news conference as an essential way to fight climate change. At a dueling appearance this week, ...
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Gov. Tim Walz proposed a bonding bill of $982 million on Tuesday, with nearly half going toward shoring up existing state infrastructure. The governor's proposal is one of the early steps in the process, setting a framework and tone for the Legislature which goes into session Feb. 12. The DFL-controlled Legislature will weigh Walz's proposal and likely negotiate with him and Republicans over ...
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With private developers waiting in the wings, the City of Covington hopes to break ground in early spring on installing the public infrastructure that will transform a 23-acre "blank canvas" a block south of the Ohio River into a shovel-ready site. The City has issued a formal request for proposals from contractors wanting to lay the first phase of the "horizontal infrastructure" – i.e. ...
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The CTA under the leadership of Dorval R. Carter Jr. did not exactly have a banner 2023, what with delays, so-called ghost trains and safety issues on its properties. The single worst day, though, was Nov. 16 when 38 people were injured after a CTA Yellow Line train crashed into a piece of snow-moving equipment near the border of Evanston and Chicago. That serious crash, which resulted in ...
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The MRI imaging machines have already been installed. Computers are now in post-operative rooms. “The next four months we will be working to get furniture and other items into the building,” said Chris Roty, president of Baptist Health Lexington, on a recent tour of the more than 330,000 square foot new outpatient campus in Hamburg on Polo Club Boulevard. By the end of April, parts of the new ...
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