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Many would-be kidney donors are ineligible because of their weight or smoking habits. A UChicago project helps them qualify
Project Donor estimates that 90% of individuals interested in kidney donation don’t make it through the process.
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Chicago Public Media CEO stepping down two years after merging WBEZ and Sun-Times as nonprofit news organization
Chicago Public Media CEO Matt Moog announced he will step down after three years at the helm.
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Berwyn home designed by Tallmadge & Watson listed for $799,900
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the two-story home has a Prairie-style low-hipped roof and horizontal lines.
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Alaska Air to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal
Alaska Air Group said Sunday it agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal including debt.
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Search average home values in Illinois counties
Illinois has a vast real estate market, with average home values ranging from around $65,000 to upwards of $400,000 in counties throughout the state.
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Illinois home values are booming. Here’s a look at prices throughout the state.
Search the map to see how Illinois home values compare by ZIP code.
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Residents and fellows training at Northwestern Medicine file to unionize
Though most residents have already signed salary agreements, members are hoping that unionizing will allow them to get better cost-of-living adjustments in the future.
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Peoples Gas asks to restore $134 million of ‘paused’ pipeline replacement work, says hundreds of jobs may be lost
Without the funding, there will be safety risks from leaking pipes, gaping holes in streets and sidewalks, replacement meters left “dangling” on customer residences and hundreds of jobs lost in the new year, Peoples Gas warned in the filing.
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Chicago Fed president Goolsbee says inflation on track to reach 2% goal
Speaking at the regional bank’s annual economic outlook symposium, Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee said the latest inflation data was “absolutely what we wanted it to be."
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Columbia College strike said to be longest in higher-ed history for adjunct faculty, as picketing enters 2nd month
More than 500 faculty members have been on strike after the administration cut more than 300 course sections and increased class sizes.
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Lawsuit: Evanston’s rezoning for concerts at Ryan Field was ‘backroom deal’ that should be invalidated
The Evanston City Council's action will lead to traffic congestion, parking problems, litter, public safety issues, a decrease in property values and noise pollution, the lawsuit says.
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CTA Yellow Line remains closed two weeks after crash, as investigation continues
The CTA has been running shuttle buses to replace Yellow Line service.
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Shiffler Builders, one of Naperville’s oldest businesses, to close its doors after 113 years
Shiffler Builders has been a fixture of Naperville for 113 years, but this year will be its last, owner Steve Shiffler says.
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Autoworkers strike cut Ford sales by 100,000 vehicles and cost company $1.7 billion in profits
Additional labor costs from the agreement will total $8.8 billion by the end of the contract, translating to about $900 per vehicle by 2028, the company said.
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Drugmaker AbbVie to spend over $10 billion on ImmunoGen to juice its cancer-fighting treatment portfolio
The deal delivers Elahere, an ImmunoGen ovarian cancer treatment that North Chicago-based AbbVie says could eventually reap billions of dollars in annual sales and drive long-term revenue growth.
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Red Lobster’s popular endless shrimp deal ate into its profits
The Ultimate Endless Shrimp deal has been so popular that it helped cause a drop in third-quarter profit for Red Lobster, which had to raise the price to $25 from $20.
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Illinois grape growers prepare to take on the invasive spotted lanternfly after first sighting this fall
The state Department of Agriculture worries about how spotted lanternflies will affect the agritourism industry, including vineyards.
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Meta turns on the power for $1 billion DeKalb data center
Meta flipped the switch Wednesday on its massive DeKalb data center to power everything from Facebook posts to the uncharted realm of the metaverse.
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Indiana judge dismisses state’s lawsuit against TikTok that alleged child safety, privacy concerns
An Indiana county judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of its consumers’ personal information.
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Construction companies fined in connection with worker’s death at Green Bay Packers’ Lambeau Field
Federal labor inspectors have levied fines against two construction companies in connection with a worker’s death at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, earlier this year.