Downtown offices kept emptying out during the third quarter as post-pandemic work trends continued to hamper demand. But owners of the newest and most-updated properties actually saw their corner of the market improve.

Governor Pritzker said he’s open to supporting the Bears’ request for state assistance for development around the team’s planned future stadium in Arlington Heights, and is clarifying one of his conditions for that support.

“For some reason this happens more frequently in Cook County than anywhere I know in the country,” said Richard Ciccarone, president emeritus at Merritt Research Services, an Investortools company.

A group of students is boycotting Northwestern’s controversial antibias training video, which critics say conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Those who refuse to complete the online training will be unable to enroll in fall classes, the

“If state and local police were establishing designated protest areas around the detainment facility that facilitated ingress and egress for federal vehicles without coming into contact with demonstrators, there would be no justification for federal troops — and likely no legal way for Trump to deploy them.”

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday afternoon that federal agents and officers deployed to the blue state as part of Operation Midway Blitz since Sept. 8 have arrested more than 800 people illegally residing in the United States.

Spread across the city, the savings amount to about $60 for a family of four during the six months. City leaders were considering the tax but procrastinated and missed the state deadline. Out of roughly 1,300 Illinois communities, 607 had notified IDOR before the deadline that they would impose the 1% tax.