The deal will allow Abbott — which makes medical tests, baby formula and continuous glucose monitors, among other products — to enter the cancer testing space. Exact Sciences focuses on early cancer detection and personalized treatments, and is perhaps best known for making Cologaurd, an at-home colon cancer screening test.

The Northwestern Medicine Dauten Behavioral Health Institute will aim to better coordinate care and improve screening of patients, and will focus on novel diagnostic and treatment approaches across the Northwestern system, as well as research.

The Illinois Commerce Commission slashed a proposed $314.3 million Nicor Gas rate increase by nearly 47% Wednesday, keeping a lid on rising energy bills for many suburban Chicago customers next year.

Financier and former Fruit of the Loom President and CEO William F. Farley and his wife, Shelley, on Wednesday sold their seven-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of the cooperative building at 209 E. Lake Shore Drive for $7.5 million — less than half of the original asking price when the Farleys first listed the unit in 2023.

Most Chicagoans want the Bears to stay, but don’t want to spend public money to keep them, a new survey has found.

Here’s what to know about the Chicago Bears’ possible move from Soldier Field.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes increased last month to the fastest pace since February as lower mortgage rates helped pull more homebuyers into the market.

This Lakeview home has five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, two half-baths and a top floor that functions as a second family room, guest suite or home office.