Prime Healthcare hospitals will stay in-network with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, after months of uncertainty • Illinois cities unveil rival housing plan to Gov. JB Pritzker’s sweeping zoning plan
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| | | | | Former Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan and his wife have found a buyer for their Lincoln Park home, just two weeks after they placed it for sale. | | | | | Prime Healthcare, which owns eight Illinois hospitals, will remain in-network with the state’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. | | | | | The Illinois Municipal League’s proposal is the most organized resistance yet to Pritzker’s sweeping “middle housing” plan that would require municipalities statewide to allow denser housing. | | | | | The renovated West Wing performance space will be renamed Foro de Artes Bayless and is expected to be completed in early winter 2028. | | | | | Will County Board member Judy Ogalla, a Monee Republican and farmer, said solar developers offer $40,000 an acre to buy farmland. | | | | | Looking to keep pace with a new casino complex opening north of the border in Wisconsin, Hard Rock Casino Rockford announced a major expansion with plans to build an adjacent hotel. | | | | | The findings showed that passions for keeping the Bears in Illinois ran much higher in the Chicago area than downstate. | | | | | A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams. | | | |