$1.7-Billion NGA West Project Breaks Ground in St. Louis; World's Largest Starbucks Opens in Chicago.

Most construction companies expect strong demand in 2020 for all building types, but they also all report difficulty in finding workers.

Chicago developers, contractors, unions, the United Way and even Rahm Emanuel's last campaign manager are coming together to bring women, african-americans, latinos and other minorities into the building trades.

AGC-Autodesk report says 80% of contractors face shortage of skilled workers.

Measure proposed by House members from the flood-battered Midwest,would establish a fund to support loans for resilience projects.

Even though flood water has fallen to levels that make some bridges and channel roads passable in the tiny island town of Kaskaskia, Ill., local officials still don't have a good idea of how much damage more than three months of being submerged has done.

Officials from Midwest cities and towns are finally getting a chance to reevaluate flood control after flood waters have begun to recede, some for the first time this year.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cut the ribbon as Skender opened its southwest side modular manufacturing facility on the southside.