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Kimberlee Jones, JD/MBA, was named one of the Influential Women representing Illinois for 2026, recognizing her work in intellectual property, business strategy and legal leadership.

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Unicycive Therapeutics named biopharma executive Meredith Manning to its Board of Directors on Oct. 2, 2026, as the company pushes its kidney-disease pipeline toward potential approval and a commercial launch.

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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 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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Relo Solutions Group expanded its white-label technical field support for moving companies in Washington, DC, Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta.

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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 Business Research Company says the mixed xylene market is on track to grow from $65.13 billion in 2025 to $83.25 billion by 2030, driven by demand from automotive production, paints and coatings, and infrastructure spending.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Azilen Technologies is arguing that the biggest hurdle in manufacturing’s Physical AI push is not model performance but the quality of machine data underneath it. The company made the case at IMTS 2026 in Chicago as Juniper Research projects…