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Chicago faces a shortage of 120,000 affordable homes. Gov. JB Pritzker’s abundance housing package rightly targets the need for more housing construction. As the Tribune Editorial Board points out in ...

Even as overall construction activity slowed in Chicago last year, a handful of massive projects reshuffled the ranks of the city’s top general contractors and signaled where development dollars are ...