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Chicago City Council has approved a plan to borrow $830 million for repairs and upgrades to the city's transportation infrastructure.

Controversial rebuild of a pair of 20-in.-dia pipes resting on the lake bottom with a single 30-in.-dia pipe inside a concrete-lined tunnel still needs federal permit approval and has opponents.

The Chicago-based materials supplier cites a growing demand in the sector for low-embodied carbon building materials.

Engineering firm agrees to $53-million settlement of lawsuit brought by Michigan Attorney General on behalf of 26,000 Flint residents over the city's water lead contamination crisis. 

Two construction associations and a contractor are suing to block a Minnesota law that will provide stiff penalties for misclassifying employees as independent contractors.

The City of Chicago has advanced a $7-billion, 15-year plan to redevelop 55 acres around Chicago's United Center with housing, retail, entertainment space and a public plaza.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was found guilty on 10 counts of bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy Feb. 12, while being acquitted of seven other counts and the jury deadlocked on six more.

Ohio Attorney General sues United States Gypsum Co. for nearly $17 million to recover costs incurred to stabilize a state roadway threatened by sinkholes that had developed above the company’s former underground gypsum mines.  

The southbound Daniel Carter Beard Bridge reopened exactly 100 days after its approach was damaged by a fire.

Failing to follow state and federal drug testing protocols has resulted in an $8.5 million settlement in the wrongful death of construction worker fatally struck by a dump truck in St. Paul, Minn.