SPRINGFIELD – On Jan. 14, 2019, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker was sworn into office. A billionaire businessman from Chicago with no prior experience as an elected official, he took…
SPRINGFIELD — Without any knowledge of what was happening, Rodney Shelton, a city worker with the Chicago Fire Department, racked up almost $9,000 in non-moving vehicle tickets…
There’s a name for privately held startups that grow to $1 billion: unicorns. They’re called that because they’re so rare. But in the sharing economy — the sector led by Uber…
Harvard’s troubled Motorola Plant site is now in forfeit on the orders of the U.S. Department of Justice, pending resolution of Edward Harvard Holdings LLC owner Xiao Hua Gong’s…
Not even vehicles from six different directions generated enough traffic to save Sears’ last store in Chicago. The retailer has announced that it will be closing its store at Six…
SPRINGFIELD — Metropolitan areas in northern Illinois enjoyed most of the job growth that occurred in the state over the past year while a number of central-state communities saw…
Major public and private investments continue slowly improve the economy of Madison-Jersey county area along the Mississippi River, according to the latest State of the RiverBend report,…
“You reach your destination, but alas and alack!/ You need some compensation to get back in the black/ You take your morning paper from the top of the stack/ And read the…
