
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Latest reporting from the Business desk.
Business
Housing Forward broke ground Monday on The Oak Inn, a year-long renovation converting the former Write Inn Hotel into 60 rooms of permanent supportive housing, adding a second major construction project to Oak Park's already-disrupted Hemingway District corridor.

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A court-brokered deal to sell West Suburban Medical Center to Insight Health Systems for $1 has stalled after CEO Manoj Prasad spent weeks working to undo terms agreed to in May, with a Cook County judge setting an Aug. 25 hearing to force a resolution while 500 laid-off workers and overwhelmed neighboring ERs bear the cost of the continued closure.

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Oak Park's Village Board amended its hemp and kratom ordinance July 28, banning high-THC hemp product sales outside licensed dispensaries starting Nov. 12 and imposing a $300 licensing fee and $1.31 per-unit tax on kratom retailers, while stopping short of an outright kratom ban.


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Housing Forward broke ground Monday on The Oak Inn, a year-long renovation converting the former Write Inn Hotel into 60 rooms of permanent supportive housing, adding a second major construction project to Oak Park's already-disrupted Hemingway District corridor.

Business
Housing Forward broke ground Monday on The Oak Inn, a year-long renovation converting the former Write Inn Hotel into 60 rooms of permanent supportive housing, adding a second major construction project to Oak Park's already-disrupted Hemingway District corridor.