Annemarie Mannion

Jury decides Greenpeace should pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners for defamation, trespassing and other illegal actions involving protests against the pipeline. 

The City of Chicago is asking prime contractors to take 3% off the price of their invoices, with no decrease in scope for construction projects. 

A $1.5-billion project to double the length of the Kentucky Lock—an expansion 25 years in the making—has reached a milestone with installation of final structural monoliths that form its core.

Protecting delicate and rare plants and trees from around the world was one of the challenges of building the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.

Wieland, a supplier of copper and copper alloys, has hired Graycor and Helmkamp Construction as the design-build contractor on a $500-million expansion of its East Alton, Ill., manufacturing facility.

Worried about federal funding, Illinois has postponed closing on property rights for land needed for a $1.2-billion project to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

Kansas City’s CPKC Stadium is the world’s first stadium purpose-built for a women’s professional sports team.  

Contractors in the Midwest see promise for large projects in data centers, AI, advanced manufacturing and power for 2025 and beyond.

City sees various active market sectors, including public transit, health and manufacturing.

With a slate of diverse projects, total construction spending in the region is on track to grow 17% in 2025.