State officials have not been told what the new facility will produce.

Biden, Klobuchar, Buttigieg and Steyer made bipartisan pitches to boost attention to biggest US needs.

Related Midwest says construction will begin by early 2021 on The 78, the developer's $7-billion, 62-acre megaproject in Chicago's South Loop.

Agency says Balfour Beatty-Graham team managing the $510-million project missed another completion deadline to transfer it for testing.

Fincantieri-Salini joint venture expedites work on structure in place of span that collapsed in 2018, killing 43.