Business Stories from January 6, 2026 (Change date)
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‘Cozy, warm and welcomed’: New Libertyville coffee shop concept aims for comfort and building connectionsJan 06, 2026 8:43 pm - The idea behind Frunchroom Collective, a new coffee shop preparing to open in Libertyville, is a cozy and welcome environment.
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Peoples Gas files $202 million rate increase request with Illinois regulatory bodyJan 06, 2026 8:42 pm - Peoples Gas has filed a $202.3 million rate hike request with the Illinois Commerce Commission. If approved in full, typical residential Peoples Gas customers can expect to pay $10-11 more per month starting in 2027. Peoples Gas said the hike is needed to meet the ICC’s order to retire more than 1,000 miles of old iron pipes that carry natural gas underneath Chicago.
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Illinois House speaker calls Bears stadium ask ‘insensitive’ amid budget pressuresJan 06, 2026 8:17 pm - Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said Tuesday that legislation giving the Chicago Bears tax breaks and state assistance to redevelop Arlington Park is not high in his agenda this spring.
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Railroads say freight merger application falls short; UP says rivals are grandstandingJan 06, 2026 6:11 pm - Four major railroads tell feds UP, Norfolk Southern’s paperwork doesn’t prove their proposed merger is in the public interest and omits key details.
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High-end fitness center, retail coming to old Dominick’s site in Buffalo GroveJan 06, 2026 5:56 pm - Buffalo Grove trustees gave their endorsement this week to the plan to transform the old Dominick’s site into a high-end fitness center with retail.
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Mount Prospect spent $700,000 on legal fight with malodorous animal feed producerJan 06, 2026 4:19 pm - Mount Prospect has released legal costs associated with its fight against Prestige Feed Products
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Illinois Department of Human Services reports yearslong data breachJan 06, 2026 3:04 pm - The Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed recently that it mistakenly uploaded private health-related information about hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans to a publicly accessible website and left it there for more than three years before it discovered the mistake.
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Alexian Brothers labor and delivery unit shuts downJan 06, 2026 2:38 pm - After months of debate over the closure and a ruling by a state agency in favor of Ascension’s closing it down, the Alexian Brothers Medical Center’s labor and delivery unit in Elk Grove Village served its last patient Tuesday.
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Developers proposing shops at former Pheasant Run ask for $3.3M in incentives from St. CharlesJan 06, 2026 1:59 pm - A developer is eyeing the construction of 12 to 15 buildings — including shops, restaurants and a possible hotel — at the site of the demolished Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles.
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‘Hard work and community’: Lake County couple debuts Travelin’ Tom’s coffee truckJan 06, 2026 1:12 pm - The enterprising team of Ivan and Jessica Tcholakov of Round Lake Beach have launched Travelin’ Tom’s Coffee of Grayslake as their second mobile food business.
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