Fewer homes being purchased in Chicago area, but sales prices still going up

While the Chicago area had more homes for sale in April 2025 than a year ago, sales were down year-to-year while sales prices went up.

The Fresh Market recently opened a store in the Algonquin Commons shopping center on Randall Road.

‘Finding their niche’: The Fresh Market is back to opening stores in the suburbs, this time in redeveloping areas

Vernon Hills companies behind effort to block Trump tariffs

Illinois bill aims to lower cost of prescriptions, rein in pharmacy benefit managers

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Chicago firm helping draw a new vision for The Promenade Bolingbrook

Thoroughbred horses are still running at Hawthorne Race Course as the old grandstand is prepared for the addition of slots and table games. But the racino project has stalled amid financing woes at the Stickney track.

The Biz Week That Was: Bid to revive horse racing, a new Whole Foods, and auto racing simulator studio opens

Senator tries last-ditch push to boost horse racing industry in Illinois City officials from Decatur and Illinois horse racing advocates joined an effort this week b...

A special use permit has been requested to allow an adult-use dispensary at 801 S. Route 59 (at right) in the Brewster Creek Shopping Center in Bartlett. A KinderCare (at left) operates just to the north of the shopping center.

Neighbors oppose marijuana dispensary proposed near Bartlett day care center

Bartlett trustees Tuesday will consider a controversial proposal for a recreational marijuana dispensary in the Brewster Creek Shopping Center on Route 59 near a day care.

Workers have started exterior demolition of the shuttered Spring Hill Mall, which closed last year.

West Dundee begins exterior demolition of shuttered Spring Hill Mall

Workers hired by the village of West Dundee have started exterior demolition of the shuttered Spring Hill Mall. The village is clearing the site, which straddles West Dundee and Carpentersville, so it eventually can become a mixed-use development with retail, residential and restaurants.

Sen. Patrick Joyce, center, an Essex Democrat, speaks in favor of his bill to expand horse racing in Illinois alongside Jeff Davis, president of the Illinois Harness Horsemen’s Association, and Nicole Bateman, president of the Economic Development Corporation of Decatur-Macon County. Decatur would be the site of a new racino under the legislation.

Senator tries last-ditch push to boost horse racing industry in Illinois

City officials from Decatur and Illinois horse racing advocates joined an effort this week by Sen. Patrick Joyce, an Essex Democrat, to push lawmakers to approve legislation intended to revive a long-stalled south suburban “racino” and open a path for a new racetrack and gaming facility in Decatur.