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Gov. JB Pritzker says Illinois housing plan likely waits but Bears stadium and data center bills alive

By Olivia Olander
Oct 16, 2026 11:37 am - Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday cast doubt on his ambitious housing program passing in the short fall legislative session but indicated optimism about legislation to regulate data centers and support a new Bears stadium to be located in the suburbs or even stay in Chicago.
Fed chair Warsh says price stability is key but shies away from signals about rates

By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Oct 16, 2026 8:07 am - Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said Friday he won’t prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do about interest rates at its upcoming meetings in October and December.
IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI

By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Oct 07, 2026 8:20 am - Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head of the IMF said Wednesday.
Constellation and Google announce plan to increase nuclear capacity in Illinois, two other states

By John Lippert
Oct 06, 2026 12:46 pm - Constellation Energy, the largest U.S. nuclear provider, agreed Tuesday to invest $4.3 billion to increase output at 11 nuclear plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and then sell this additional power to Google over a 20-year period.
What does the data say about data centers?

By Frank Manzo IV
Oct 05, 2026 8:20 am - People everywhere are talking about data centers, the high-tech facilities that house our nations growing digital infrastructure.
Grayslake getting the word out on data center project and what the property tax proceeds can mean

By Mick Zawislak
Oct 03, 2026 8:12 am - As construction proceeds on the first component of the T5 data center campus in Grayslake, village officials have stepped up efforts to explain how and why the massive project came to be and what a bounty of additional expected property taxes can mean for residents.
Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Oct 02, 2026 12:06 pm - Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water and energy preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry's rollout of the massive buildings.
Report: New data centers could create more than 120K Illinois jobs, though mostly temporary

By Ben Szalinski and Maggie Dougherty
Oct 01, 2026 2:54 pm - A new report from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and University of Illinois Project for Middle Class Renewal projects $57 billion in new data center developments over the next decade to generate thousands of jobs and millions in property tax revenues in Illinois.
BBB urges consumers to strengthen digital defenses during Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Submitted by Better Business Bureau
Sep 30, 2026 10:33 am - October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is reminding consumers that protecting personal information online doesn’t have to be complicated.
Pritzker establishes AI cabinet amid calls for greater regulation

By Ben Szalinski
Sep 22, 2026 1:52 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing an artificial intelligence cabinet. The cabinet will consider policy recommendations and focus on safety plans to protect residents and infrastructure from threats posed by AI. The order comes as Pritzker calls on Congress to impose national regulations.

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