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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Representatives from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago), Gorman & Company, The Phoenix Foundation, and community partners gathered yesterday to celebrate the grand opening of Earle Residences, an adaptive reuse project converting the closed Charles Warrington Earle School into 50 affordable rental apartment units in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. FHLBank Chicago awarded a $1 million Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grant to support the rehab...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tagup today announced that its existing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract has been modified to extend Manifest®, its AI-powered logistics platform, to selected theater sustainment use cases supporting U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC). The effort will apply Manifest to improve data integration, course-of-action analysis, and risk-informed sustainment planning in the Indo-Pacific. Manifest is currently in use at the tactical and op...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CivilGrid, the civil design platform that consolidates all site data into a collaborative map with design workflows to enable builders to deliver safe and affordable projects, announced a $26 million Series A. The platform gives infrastructure teams what they've never had before: a comprehensive view of underground assets and conditions. The round is led by Spark Capital with participation from Energy Impact Partners, Afore Capital, A*, Ford Street Ventures, and S...

Stittsville, ON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Friday, August 28, 2026, the workers at Granite Ridge Care Community are holding a rally to call out ongoing staffing shortages at the facility. The 300 workers, represented by CUPE Local 4540 provide care for residents of the facility. Granite Ridge is operated by Sienna Senior Living and is a for-profit home that has routinely underpaid and undervalued frontline workers to generate higher returns for shareholders. Rather than negotiating with the union and...

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) hosted a roundtable with U.S. Rep. Bill Foster (IL-11), U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (IL-06), member financial institutions, trade association partners, and industry leaders for a discussion on housing finance, financial services, and community development issues affecting communities across Illinois. Both Congressmen are senior members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee with jurisdiction over the ba...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Government of Canada today announced funding of up to $31.25 million through the Strategic Response Fund (SRF) toward Kardium’s investment in a $125 million project to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Vancouver, British Columbia. The announcement was made by the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions. The investment will support a major expansion of Kardiu...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Knightscope, Inc. (NASDAQ: KSCP), the security technology company building the nation’s first Autonomous Security Force, today announced that one of its Knightscope Agents, Eddie Vasquez, has been named a finalist for Contract Security Manager/Director of the Year in the 2026 US Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs). Finalists for this year’s program were announced in late July, recognizing individuals and organizations demonstrating outstanding per...

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clutch and LinkedIn are collaborating to strengthen workforce development, support AI readiness, and expand economic mobility in California....

MT. PLEASANT, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WATT, a leading provider of small-scale Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) systems, today announced that it has achieved Awardable status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the suite of tools and services from the Department of War (DoW) designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Ma...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The audit and assurance firm of Grant Thornton in the U.S., Grant Thornton LLP, today announced that Ash Dalnoot has been named to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s (PCAOB) newly formed Inspections Modernization Council (IMC). Dalnoot was selected from more than 100 applicants across the financial reporting ecosystem to serve on the 12-member council, a resource group composed of outside parties that will provide perspectives to inform the PCAOB’s efforts...