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Chicago’s life sciences industry could in 2024 be one of the few bright spots in the city’s struggling office market.... “ So, we believe we’ll see in the near term a rise in the number of leasing deals announced.” Venture capital funding for Chicago-area biotech firms year-over-year fell 37% in the first half of 2023.... “ We just need a little bit of time for these groups to grow.” Developers need a variety of available spaces for their life sciences tenants, said Baer-Blaska, because they a

Standing in the former capital of the Confederacy on an industrial site he wants to turn into the nation's only Black-owned casino, Alfred C. Liggins III doesn't talk about revenue or market share.... “ A big part of lifting up a community.？... In November, the city will hold a referendum on the project after Urban One beat other contenders to bring gaming to River City. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Gambling and equity make strange bedfellows....

The District’s highest court Wednesday ruled that the developers of the McMillan Sand Filtration site in Northeast can proceed with a large-scale project that for years has been mired in legal challenges.Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight The D.C. Court of Appeals decision is a victory for the project’s proponents, including Mayor Muriel E. Bowser( D), who has been seeking to redevelop the 25-acre property since she took office in 2015. Opponents had challenged the validity

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Las Vegas.... About 4 million federal workers, from FBI agents to Bureau of Prisons guards to U.S. Food and Drug Administration workers, are to be vaccinated by Nov.... About 4 million federal workers are to be vaccinated by Nov....

President Joe Biden is pushing forward with a massive plan to require millions of private sector employees to get vaccinated by early next year.... But first, he has to make sure workers in his own federal government get the shot. About 4 million federal workers are to be vaccinated by Nov.... And some resistant workers are digging in, filing lawsuits and protesting what they say is unfair overreach by the White House. The upcoming deadline is the first test of Biden’s pushto compel people to

Critics say DEI programs are discriminatory and attempt to solve racial discrimination by disadvantaging other groups, particularly White Americans.... It’s also tasked with enforcing major federal voting laws such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Historically, the division under Republican administrations has been largely dormant.... The case was dropped after Trump’s victory in the 2024 election.In many of the lawsuits, Dhillon is accompanied as a lawyer by David Warrington, whom Trump rece

When the fisherman leveled his spear gun and fired at her across the dark water, Evelyn Malicay held her ground in her kayak, gripping a stone to defend herself.... This no-fishing zone shares one uncommon asset with a variety of other unusually successful conservation projects around the globe: It’s run by women. Globally, commitments to conservation have been marked by failure.... The six-author study showed that in countries from Nepal to Cameroon, Australia to Canada, women are excluded fr