Ramsey County officials have long debated the pros and cons of running passenger rail down West Seventh Street from the downtown St. Paul Union Depot to the Mall of America in Bloomington. With new cost estimates and projected travel times in hand, a key advisory committee on Thursday voted to release three options for public comment. Following a public engagement process, the policy advisory ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One by one the women walked onto the field for the first time, shortly before they departed for a warm-weather camp in Florida, and gazed at the stands towering above them on three sides and the scoreboard looming over them on the fourth. For the first time, they felt as if they were home. That's because for the first time in the history of the National Women's Soccer ...
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Feb. 27—DIXON — More than two hours of testimony from the developers of what could be Illinois' largest solar facility were heard Feb. 20 during the first of three hearings before the Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals. Hexagon Energy LLC, a Virginia-based company doing business in Illinois as Steward Creek Solar LLC, is seeking a special use permit from Lee County to build Phase 2 of a ...
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Huge warehouses sprouted up across the Chicago metro area at a record-setting pace in 2023, blowing past records set the previous two years. And with retailers and other companies still hungry for space to store and distribute their products, these new buildings will likely lease up quickly. “The strong demand coming out of the pandemic drove this development,” said David Bercu, executive vice ...
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Chicago’s biggest water customer, DuPage County, this week renewed its contract for the city to continue delivery to suburban faucets, toilets, hot tubs and factories. The deal was set to expire next month, and will be renewed for just 17 years — less than half the length of the current agreement. At $4.54 per 1,000 gallons, DuPage is on track to pay Chicago $122 million this year to pump ...
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Demolition of Northwestern University’s 98-year-old Ryan Field began Friday , a big step that will allow the school to rebuild a newer state-of-the-art stadium for football games and concerts. The controversial plan has seen residents from Evanston and neighboring Wilmette fight the university and their lawmakers to prevent the commercialization of the new stadium in the middle of a ...
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Feb. 16—Ameren plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant in south St. Louis County on the former site of its oldest and smallest coal plant, which closed a year ago, the company announced Thursday. The St. Louis-based electric utility said the new facility would be used as a "peaker" plant to bolster power reliability when demand is greatest — like the hottest or coldest extremes of ...
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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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