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Commercial real estate sales see a split in Chicago as another Mag Mile building goes up for sale. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Danny Ecker has details on that story and more.

WTTW News | July 12, 2021 4:30 pm A Gold Coast parking garage long in need of repairs is being shut down by the city in the wake of the condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida. The maker of Palatine-based Weber barbecue grills files to go public. And a major apartment sale signals a quickly recovering downtown market. Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Danny Ecker joins us to go behind the headlines.

Crain's Chicago Business has garnered several honors in two recent journalism awards programs. The Chicago Headline Club on May 13 granted Crain's its coveted General Excellence award in the non-daily category. Crain's Aug. 27 Forum on Education—part of the publication's ongoing monthly series exploring major public policy challenges facing the region—won honors for best education reporting in the non-daily category. Several individual staffers were also singled out for special honors in the competition. Crain's Digital Design Editor Jason McGregor won the best graphics award for his work...

An underfunded, understaffed tourism and conventions agency puts Chicago's post-pandemic rebound at risk. My colleague Danny Ecker reports in Crain's this week that Choose Chicago, which promotes the city to tourists and convention planners, is heading out of the pandemic with half the budget and staff it started with. Hotel tax revenues that provide much of the agency's funding plunged during the worst of COVID-19, forcing deep cutbacks. More Plummeting tax collections reflect COVID-19's impact on the industry Choose Chicago supports. COVID-19 caused the cancellation of 214 conventions at M...