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Another round of Obama Presidential Center tickets go on sale Wednesday • Illinois bill awaiting Pritzker OK would add oversight on private equity firms buying disability group homes
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Lurie seeks state’s OK to build children’s hospital in Downers Grove

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital has taken the next step to build a hospital in Downers Grove by filing a formal request for the project with state authorities.

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Another round of Obama Presidential Center tickets go on sale Wednesday

The latest round of tickets to the museum at the Obama Presidential Center go on sale to the public Wednesday morning.

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Illinois bill awaiting Pritzker OK would add oversight on private equity firms buying disability group homes

The bill, which passed the General Assembly this spring with broad bipartisan support, requires facilities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to report to the state when they are purchased by an asset management company.

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George E. Johnson Sr., founder of Johnson Products Company, dies at 99

George E. Johnson Sr., the onetime chemist who built Chicago-based Johnson Products, the nation’s largest producer of cosmetics and hair products for African Americans, died on Monday at his Chicago home.

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Highland Park 6-bedroom home with coach house: $1.7M

This six-bedroom home has six full bathrooms, one half bathroom and an English Arts and Crafts design by Howard Van Doren Shaw.

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Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs, including many at Xbox in a ‘reset’ of its gaming division

Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business.

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Trump rings Wall Street’s opening bells as he ties his presidency to stock market gains

President Donald Trump on Monday rang the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the golden confines of the Oval Office, a symbolic act that reflects how he has increasingly tied his presidency to the stock market.

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Data center developer reverses course in Hoffman Estates, days before vote on controversial plan

Just days before the Hoffman Estates Village Board was set to vote on a controversial plan to rezone a patch of farmland for possible use as a data center, the developer withdrew his request.

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