Tim Novak

2 months ago | paper.suntimes.com | Tim Novak

TAXPAYERS ARE OUT MORE THAN $30M ON U. OF I.’S SCUTTLED ‘78’ PROJECT That’s how much taxpayers had to pay when the University of Illinois pulled the plug on plans for its Discovery Partners Institute research hub at the sprawling 62-acre South Loop site Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks last July at the former US Steel South Works site about plans for a new Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park for the property.

2 months ago | wbez.org | Amy Yee |Mitchell Armentrout |Tim Novak |Maggie Hennessy

To settle a conservative group’s discrimination lawsuit, McDonald’s said it will no longer require Hispanic heritage for students who apply to its decades-old Hispanic college scholarship program. American Alliance for Equal Rights filed a lawsuit in January in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against McDonald’s and the International Scholarship and Tuition Services, the Nashville-based company that administers the fast food chain’s HACER scholarships.

2 months ago | wbez.org | Mitchell Armentrout |Tim Novak |Maggie Hennessy |Mark Guarino

A conservative activist group is suing Bally’s, the city and state gambling regulators over a minority investment program in the Chicago casino that allows only women and people of color to get a piece of the action. The American Alliance for Equal Rights filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday, along with two white Texas men who are “excluded from the table solely based on immutable characteristics,” the suit states.

2 months ago | wbez.org | Tim Novak |Mohammad Samra |Lee Bey

Seven years ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner invited dignitaries to a 62-acre plot of land in the South Loop and offered a bold promise: The long-vacant property would be transformed, with a high-tech research facility to be built there that would give a massive economic boost to the city of Chicago. The University of Illinois would operate the proposed $285 million facility, dubbed the Discovery Partners Institute.

2 months ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Tim Novak

Seven years ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner invited dignitaries to a 62-acre plot of land in the South Loop and offered a bold promise: The long-vacant property would be transformed, with a high-tech research facility to be built there that would give a massive economic boost to the city of Chicago. The University of Illinois would operate the proposed $285 million facility, dubbed the Discovery Partners Institute.