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Updates about construction professionals in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin

Top Starts Drop by two-thirds from 2019 levels as pandemic pauses projects.

When the world shut down, INDoT made the most of its rainy day fund and went to work

Despite unknown conditions due to emergency stabilization, more landslide activity during construction and the COVID-19 pandemic, the hillside above the Columbia Parkway will be fully open in July

Specialty trade contractors saw the greatest job losses while the industry jobless rate worsened on monthly, year-over-year measures.

A requirement passed last fall for new construction and expansions in Madison, Wis., to include bird-safe designs and materials has been formally challenged by an advocacy group representing several Wisconsin construction and real estate industry associations. 

Proposed budget calls for funding of 28 projects within the University of Wisconsin system.

Leaders of Generation Now, a PAC created to funnel money to politicians that supported an energy-reform bill that saved FirstEnergy's plants, has pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy.

After being delayed last year due to falling sales tax receipts, the 112,0000-sq-ft expansion of the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, the state's largest convention center, is back on.

Ohio's infrastructure earns a C- from the American Society of Civil Engineers.