Steel and aluminum are essential for high-rise construction, and are often cheaper to produce in countries like China, Mexico or Canada, one expert said.

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on “law and order.” Attendees appointed a committee to work with the city to ...

Chicago builders had six construction tower cranes in the air as of January, including one for the reconstruction of the James R. Thompson Center into Google’s new headquarters, and another for ...

Earlier this month, a biotechnology company announced it had genetically engineered three gray wolf pups to have white hair, more muscular jaws and a larger build — characteristics of the dire wolf, a ...

Seventy years ago this week, McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny place would one day become ...

Kim/Chicago ... Center’s 10,000-square-foot Event Room on Tuesday for a Sugar Grove Village Board meeting focused on Crown Community Development’s proposed project called The Grove. (R.

When the full schedule for the 2024-25 NHL season began on Oct. 8, the B/R NHL staff made their predictions for the major ...

Green Bay has a big-play receiver in Christian Watson, but he's battled multiple injuries in his three-year NFL career and ...