CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL ASKS COURT TO STOP MASS FIRINGS AND SEEKS REINSTATEMENT OF FEDERAL PROBATIONARY EMPLOYEES Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 20 attorneys general, is seeking a temporary restraining order against numerous federal agencies, asking that a federal court order them to cease the illegal mass layoffs of federal probationary employees, and  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL OBTAINS GUILTY PLEA, PRISON SENTENCE FOR FAYETTE COUNTY MAN WHO POSSESSED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced that a Fayette County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material. The case is part of Raoul's ongoing work, in collaboration with federal law enfor  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SUBMIT FINAL PROPOSED FIX TO END GOOGLE'S SEARCH MONOPOLY Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), proposed a final package of remedies to end Google's illegal monopoly over internet search engines and restore competition to the ben  more

MATTOON, Illinois, March 7 [Category: BizTelecommunications] -- Consolidated Communications, a broadband and business communications provider, posted the following news release: * * * Fidium to begin expansion in Gardiner, bringing fiber access and connectivity More than 9,300 homes and businesses in Gardiner will be connected to Fidium's all-fiber network GARDINER, Maine - March 7, 2025 - Fidium, Maine's best internet provider, is expanding its all-fiber internet network in Gardiner, bring  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 [Category: BizReal Estate] -- Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate and investment management company, posted the following news release: * * * Haven Hoffman: $77.25M sale and $54.809M loan secured for residential community near Chicago CHICAGO, Mar. 7. 2025 - JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has arranged the $77.25 million sale and $54.809 million agency lending for Haven Hoffman, a 550-home garden-style community located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a soug  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, March 8 -- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 7, 2025: * * * Illinois EPA Announces Over $500,000 Awarded to 15 Community Water Supplies for Lead Service Line Inventories Grants to Aid Communities in Finalizing Lead Service Line Inventories SPRINGFIELD --Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) Acting Director James Jennings today announced the recipients to date from the fourth round of Lead Service L  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, March 8 -- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 7, 2025: * * * Illinois EPA Provides Nearly $3 Million in Funding to the City of Springfield to Replace Lead Service Lines SPRINGFIELD --Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) Acting Director James Jennings announced the award of $2,890,226 in funding to the City of Springfield (Sangamon County) to replace lead service lines within the community. The fundi  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 [Category: BizReal Estate] -- Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate and investment management company, posted the following news release: * * * JLL ranked as the world's leading hotel investment advisor in 2024 CHICAGO, Mar. 07, 2025 \- JLL (NYSE: JLL ) has maintained its ranking as the leading hotel investment advisory firm globally for 2024, as based on total investment volumes in the asset class. Data analysed and published by MSCI Real Assets has confirmed that JLL   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- McDermott Will and Emery, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * McDermott Advises Main Capital Partners and Timegrip on the Acquisition of Software4You Munich, March 7, 2025 - McDermott Will & Emery has advised Main Capital Partners and its portfolio company Timegrip on the acquisition of Software4You, a leading Germany-based provider of HR controlling and personnel cost planning software. The acquisition marks the third   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 7 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- McDermott Will and Emery, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * McDermott Represents RFR Holding LLC Subsidiary in $1.2 Billion Mortgage Financing of 375 Park Avenue in New York City International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented a subsidiary of RFR Holding LLC, a New York-based real estate owner, investor and developer, in its $1.2 billion mortgage financing of 375 Park Avenue, New York, New York, an approximate  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 8 -- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Health Equity Week Encourages Education and Action By Olivia Dimmer Faculty, residents, trainees and students from Feinberg and beyond recently came together for Health Equity Week, a weeklong series of educational programming designed to expose the roots of healthcare inequities and actions to take to address them. Hosted by the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern Uni  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 8 -- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Tracking Patient-Reported Symptoms Improves Cancer Care, Trial Finds By Olivia Dimmer Tracking patient-reported symptoms during cancer treatment improved overall patient care, according to a trial published in Nature Medicine. The use of patient-reported outcomes has grown in recent years, and research has shown that it may improve the quality of care and even extend su  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, March 7 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Stretching spider silk makes it stronger * When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads * New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds between those chains to increase * Both factors increase the silk fibers' overall strength and toughness * Insights could be applied to designing strong  more