Austin community residents, civic leaders and developers celebrated on Monday at a beam-raising event for the Austin HOPE Center, a $22 million development that will provide pediatric health care services hard to find on the Chicago’s West Side.

Despite the drop in the number of bets, the amount of money wagered on sports in September increased 9% from the previous year to a new record high handle of $1.4 billion.

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has largely resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.

The decked-out holiday train, a CTA tradition for more than three decades, will make appearances on all of the agency’s rail lines beginning Nov. 28.

With months of construction on Flossmoor’s downtown finally concluded, the village will host a grand reopening at the end of the month. Flossmoor plans a Small Business Saturday event on Nov. 29, promoting local businesses, ringing in the holiday season and celebrating the end of what has been a long and sometimes disruptive construction project.

Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Elementary District 181 has brought a taste of outer space into its schools with the recent addition of StarLab.

This four-bedroom ranch home in Winnetka was designed by the homeowner and W.D. Murphy Associates and backs onto a golf course.

Hanis was a versatile editor who spent almost her entire career working for Chicago newspapers, including the Tribune.