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Midwest Utility Consortium Strategizes to Expand Renewable Energy Capacity

March 13, 2020

In a just-issued report, 10 utilities cite need for more energy storage, transmission upgrade and new technologies to meet demands by 2050.

The Illinois Transportation Probe

Grand Jury Charges Former Illinois State and Chicago Official With Bribery

A new indictment expands to Chicago's ex-deputy aviation commissioner

Jeff Yoders

March 9, 2020

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Bill Helm, a former deputy commissioner of the Chicago Dept. of Aviation and a former IDOT official, was indicted March 6 by a grand jury for bribing former Illinois Senate Transportation Chairman Martin Sandoval

Transportation Special Report

Elusive Recipe: How to Make Recycled Road Materials That Last

Illinois guilty plea shed light on hit-or-miss search for way to use recycled asphalt shingles

Aileen Cho

Jeff Yoders

February 25, 2020

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The cost of funding research and shepherding new materials through the regulatory process was often paid by trade groups.

Labor

Illinois Developer, Sub-Contractors Ordered to Pay $1.1M for Prevailing Wage Violations

Northbrook, Ill., Senior Housing Project Found to Have Underpaid Union Carpenters in 2018

Jeff Yoders

February 24, 2020

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The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters was awarded its largest-ever backpay award by the Illinois Department of Labor in ruling that a developer and two subcontractors must pay $1.1 million for violating prevailing wage law on a senior housing project in Northbrook, Ill.

Foxconn Technology Group Wisconsin Fabrication Facility

Manufacturing

As Foxconn's Wisconsin Plant Nears Finish, Lawmakers Want Clarity

The project's Taiwan-based parent has not disclosed what it will produce

Jeff Yoders

February 17, 2020

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State officials have not been told what the new facility will produce.

Buildings

$7B Tech Park Project in Chicago to Start Construction by Early 2021

Jeff Yoders

February 13, 2020

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Related Midwest says construction will begin by early 2021 on The 78, the developer's $7-billion, 62-acre megaproject in Chicago's South Loop.

Transit

Chicago's CTA Board Approves $38.3-Million Red Line Extension EIS

T. Y. Lin International Great Lakes wins contract for impact study

Jeff Yoders

February 11, 2020

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The Chicago Transit Authority has given a $38.3-million contract for the environmental impact study for the 5-mile extension of the CTA Red Line on the city's south side.