Innovative chefs and restaurant concepts have made Chicago a star on the culinary map, but the wider six-county region lags behind the nation in restaurant growth, according to NPD Group. The number of restaurants grew 5.1 percent over the past nine years, compared to a 6.7 percent net increase nationwide, with chains accounting for most of the increase. Read Crain’s Chicago Business story here
Skanska, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Top Out Campus Building
Skanska and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) celebrated the topping out of the Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology (AIQB) building at CSHL. This marks a key milestone of Phase I of CSHL’s Foundations