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Locals hope the project will spur revitalization of communities on either side of the crossing.

The Senate-passed infrastructure bill includes $500 million to fund disaster mitigation fund created earlier this year.

City Dept. of Buildings says structure's foundation was compromised when the owner performed work in the basement. 

Effort will explore recycling soils and fines back into cement binders for new concrete.

The union protests were ruled protected speech by the National Labor Relations Board last week.

Ohio utility FirstEnergy pleads guilty to bribery and fraud.

New study says that union construction projects are similar in cost to non-union projects because higher union labor costs are offset by savings in other project components such as materials and safety, but critics point to prevailing wage laws that may have skewed its findings.

After stopping construction due to pandemic-related uncertainty, architect Helmut Jahn's 1000M tower in Chicago has been approved to resume construction as apartments instead of condos.