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Education Couture and Kuumba Enterprises are teaming up in Chicago to use music-based lessons and book trailers to strengthen early childhood reading.

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The Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce has chosen remoting.work as a strategic partner to help small and minority-owned businesses scale and create 36,000 local jobs in Illinois by 2031. The effort is aimed at easing staffing barriers that…

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Surge Institute has selected 31 leaders for its 2027 Chicago Fellowship, the largest cohort in the program’s history.

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2Blades appointed a seven-member Science Advisory Board on September 1, 2026, to guide its crop-resilience programs in soybean, corn, potato and trait-platform development.

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Biohackers World Conference & Expo opens Sept. 4–5 at The Ritz-Carlton Chicago Downtown, drawing about 1,500 attendees, 35 speakers and more than 65 brands around longevity, preventive health and human performance.

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The Coalition Against Financial Crime will bring practitioners, vendors and compliance leaders to Chicago on Sept. 8 to discuss how agentic AI can be used responsibly in AML, fraud, sanctions and other financial crime programs.

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The Institute of Medicine of Chicago inducted 15 leaders as its Class of 2026 Fellows on June 25 at its Leadership Awards and Annual Meeting in Chicago.

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A new Illinois construction safety report points to persistent workplace injury and fatality trends across the state, while underscoring how medical care, lost wages and workers’ compensation disputes can shape outcomes for injured construction…

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Yellow House Studios is filming Back to 18th Street in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood this weekend, turning a 1964 Chicago Tribune family profile into a time-travel microdrama about Mexican American history, property, and belonging.

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Pivot Energy gave $350,000 to Illinois nonprofits near its solar projects to support workforce training, energy assistance, land conservation and agricultural education.

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Diraq opened a new technology hub in Santa Monica, California, on August 25, 2026, to expand its silicon quantum engineering team and deepen access to Southern California’s quantum talent base.

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Celebriffy Technologies says its USPTO patent-pending biometric engine is now live across SeatSpark, Boletron and Credimatrix, extending face-based authentication from ticketing into reverse credit auctions.

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Illinois posted $1.2 trillion in GDP in 2025, but small business optimism still lagged the national average, underscoring a widening gap between the state’s headline growth and Main Street conditions.

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Imagine Healthcare said Madison Maskalunas has joined its Chicago interventional psychiatry team and began seeing clients Aug. 5 at the clinic’s West Grand Avenue location.

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Illinois still requires annual backflow testing for many properties, a rule rooted in the 1933 Chicago drinking-water contamination linked to cross-connected plumbing.

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Diraq opened its first U.S. laboratory in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2026, giving the quantum computing company new cryogenic and measurement capacity at mHUB through the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park’s On-Ramp program.

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Etherio said Monday it acquired Chicago-based River West Meeting Associates to deepen its life sciences meetings work, add experienced staff and expand its footprint in the Chicago market.

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The 38th annual LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent will bring more than 400 natural gas industry executives to Chicago from Sept. 14-16, 2026. The event will focus on U.S. Mid-Continent market conditions, infrastructure constraints, LNG demand and…

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Lake.com has ranked 362 U.S. lake destinations to identify the top 10 for dog-friendly travel, weighing access, amenities, city proximity and water-safety planning.

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Biohackers World Conference & Expo returns to Chicago on Sept. 4-5, 2026, with 35 speakers, more than 65 exhibiting brands and two days of sessions on longevity, human performance and personal health.