CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 6 -- City Colleges of Chicago issued the following news: FORT WAYNE, IN -- (August 5, 2024) - Indiana Tech and City Colleges of Chicago have partnered to offer an articulation agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for City Colleges students to take the next step in their educational journeys. Starting August 5, 2024, City Colleges students who have successfully completed an associate degree can seamlessly transfer into a bachelor's program at Indiana Te  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 6 -- Kirkland and Ellis, a law firm, issued the following news release: Kirkland & Ellis advised funds advised by Apax Partners LLP on the $1.75 billion acquisition of global technology consultancy Thoughtworks (Nasdaq: TWKS). The transaction was announced August 5, 2024 and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. The deal has been unanimously recommended by a special committee of the Board of Directors. Apax Funds ar  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 6 -- Kirkland and Ellis, a law firm, issued the following news release: Kirkland & Ellis counseled Bernhard Capital Partners, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm, on an agreement to acquire New Mexico Gas Company (NMGC) from Emera Inc., an international energy and services company, for an aggregate transaction value of $1.252 billion USD, including the assumption of approximately $500 million USD of debt and subject to customary closing a  more

ENCINO, California, Aug. 6 -- Marcus and Millichap issued the following news release: CHICAGO, August 5, 2024 - Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services, announced today the sale of 1518-1528 W. 99th Street, a 32-unit apartment property located in Chicago, Illinois. The property sold for $3,692,000, or $115,375 per unit, setting the record for the highest price per unit sale in Bev  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 5 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern University scientists have developed a new bioactive material that successfully regenerated high-quality cartilage in the knee joints of a large-animal model. Although it looks like a rubbery goo, the material is actually a complex network of molecular components, which work together to mimic cartilage's natural environment in the body. In the new study, the researchers appli  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * In 'Going Tactile,' UChicago linguistic anthropologist Terra Edwards investigates the nature of communication and its limits * * * As deaf individuals lost their sight in the DeafBlind community that Asst. Prof. Terra Edwards was studying, she discovered that an entirely new language emerged--one that doesn't try to negotiate with a seeing world, but is rooted in a tactile world. In Edwards' new  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Illinois Chicago campus issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2024: The formation of Earth's continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists disagree over how those land masses formed and if it was through geological processes we still see today. A recent paper from the University of Illinois Chicago's David Hernandez Uribe in Nature Geoscience adds new information to that debate, poking holes in   more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 5 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: CHICAGO - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law has received nearly $5 million in gifts to expand the Carter G. Phillips Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Center's programs. The funds will be used for Supreme Court programming and related events across the Law School, as well as the Center's two clinics: the newly named Carter G. Phillips/Sidley Austin LLP Supreme Court Clinic, where students work under th  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 6 -- The Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law issued the following school news: * * * Major Gifts from Carter Phillips, Sue Henry, Jessica Phillips, and the Sidley Austin Foundation Inspired Colleagues and Friends of the Phillips' Family to Contribute * * * Northwestern Pritzker School of Law is delighted to announce the generous commitment of nearly $5 million in gifts to expand the Carter G. Phillips Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Center's programs  more