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Consumer Protection: Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul sued Arlington Heights-based ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric, alleging deceptive tactics that targeted seniors—using unlicensed technicians, inflated pricing, and contracts customers allegedly couldn’t properly review. Corporate Accountability: Tyson Foods cut its 2026 revenue growth guidance again as beef pressures deepen, projecting a much wider operating loss in its beef segment and sending shares down. Municipal Finance: A new analysis questions whether Chicago’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy talk could realistically deliver a reset, citing the need for a credible future plan and politically acceptable cuts while essential services must continue. Public Health & Policy: Illinois assisted-suicide opponents—including Cardinal Blase Cupich, nuns, and a pharmacist—filed to block the law ahead of its Sept. 12 start, arguing it violates constitutional rights. Local Business & Growth: Digital Realty is buying a Rolling Meadows office campus for $81.5M as it expands data-center land grabs around suburban Chicago. Education & Access: Chicago extended free home internet for about 28,000 CPS students, keeping the city’s “Chicago Connected” program alive with about $2M in funding. Sports & Economy: Bally’s CFO Mira Mircheva stepped down amid liquidity and casino-construction disputes, with an interim CFO taking over.

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Chicago faces $882M budget hole. How will Mayor Johnson close the gap?

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Cardinal Cupich, Catholic nuns sue Illinois to block medical aid-in-dying law ahead of Sept. 12 start

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