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Lumber duties fail to stop price slump as housing demand falters
Sep 24, 2025 4:02 pm - When the Trump administration more than doubled import fees on Canadian softwood lumber earlier this year, the goal was to support domestic prices and boost U.S. production. Instead, prices have plunged, and mills on both sides of the border are scaling back.
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Planned industrial buildings in Schaumburg require demolition of 19 unincorporated homesSep 24, 2025 3:15 pm - A proposal for a pair of industrial buildings between Wintrust Field and Experior Logistics’ new trucking headquarters in southwest Schaumburg will require the demolition of all 19 houses along unincorporated Long Avenue.
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Trump's workforce purge batters DC's job market and leads to rise in homes for sale, report finds
Sep 24, 2025 2:14 pm - The Department of Government Efficiency's remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Condo budget approval timeline explainedSep 24, 2025 1:23 pm - Does the Illinois Condominium Property Act state a date by which a board must meet to adopt the annual budget?
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‘Trying to build a community’: Three bourbon lovers bring auction house/bar Aged in Oak to Vernon HillsSep 24, 2025 10:08 am - “This is something we are truly passionate about,” partner James Hall says about Aged in Oak, the recently opened establishment that marries a bar with a bourbon auction house in Vernon Hills.
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The economy was a strength for Trump in his first term. Not anymore, according to recent polling
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Calling all seniors: Restaurants can use your helpSep 24, 2025 8:41 am - I always encourage seniors to consider working in restaurants as a fun full-time or part-time job. Why? Because seniors are spectacular role models for today’s employees.
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25 years of play, healing and hope: How St. Alexius’ Child Life internship reshaped pediatric caregivingSep 23, 2025 5:49 pm - For 25 years, the Child Life internship program at St. Alexius Women & Children’s Hospital in Hoffman Estates has been paving career paths in a service integral to most pediatric departments.
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Schaumburg celebrates start of ‘Main Street’-like development of The District at VeridianSep 23, 2025 5:14 pm - Attendees of Tuesday’s groundbreaking ceremony for The District at Veridian, at the east end of Schaumburg’s former Motorola campus, got to see two months of progress on a nine-story apartment building above a ground-level restaurant and retail area.
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How a complete stranger tried to steal my dead father’s home
Sep 23, 2025 4:19 pm - A scammer forged a deed to steal a deceased father's condo from a grieving daughter, costing her $60,000 and months of legal battles.