#midwest

#midwest

Growing up, I expected to live the fast-paced life of a performer. I'm a Jersey girl with a New York City spirit. My dreams were set on being a principal actor on Broadway.

The MoveDetroit coalition launched 'Make Detroit Home,' offering up to $15,000 to entrepreneurs, creatives and small business owners willing to relocate. Over 300 participants will split more than $500,000 in benefits covering home down payments, renovations, rent, or business expenses.

At Mirra, chefs Zubair Mohajir and Rishi Kumar fuse Indian and Mexican flavors, telling a story of immigration and the Indian diaspora through culture-melding dishes like chaas aguachile, where translucent slices of hamachi are served in a pool of cumin-scented buttermilk and lime juice.

'They are small stakes, but, of course, everything that is quintessentially American—property, the right to violence, the right to protect land—are all intensely operative in this space.'

Andrew Zimmern stated that Casey's pizza is "packed with big flavors, unique textures and fresh ingredients," calling it "simply the best" in the gas station category.

While we don't know yet what will happen to the Illinois Operations Center or Corporate Headquarters, we will eventually pass back savings to our customers by reducing costs associated with unoccupied space. We simply have too much office space in Bloomington - about double what we need.

I'm thrilled to sign Senate Bill 27 to create the framework to build a new world-class stadium in Northwest Indiana. Now let's get this across the goal line. The Bears said in a statement that the team was grateful for Indiana's leadership establishing the framework for a stadium development in Northwest Indiana.

Roughly one in four new openings around Milwaukee now advertise some version of hybrid work, while most roles still expect people in the office full time. The split is rippling through downtown, where vacancy rates remain stubbornly high and landlords are rethinking how to fill all that space.

Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The study found that the annual cost of living in this small town, also known as the "Gateway to the Ozarks," is $32,941, while the median household income is $42,035. Poplar Bluff's violent crime rate is 0.372, and its property crime rate is 2.111 per 1,000 residents. According to Redfin, the median home price here is just under $142,000, which is about $281,000 below the national median.

In Orange County, I was the kind of person who would bury my nose in a magazine to avoid chatting with a hairdresser. I rushed through the checkout line and never said, 'How are you doing?' to someone I didn't know. If small talk was ever forced upon me, I gave away as little about myself as possible.

Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC) delivered mixed fourth-quarter results on February 11, 2026, beating earnings expectations while missing on revenue. However, the bigger story was CEO Steve Cahillane's decision to halt the planned separation and commit $600 million to a turnaround effort. Shares fell roughly 7% in premarket trading as investors digested the strategic pivot and weak guidance. Q4 Results: EPS Beat, Revenue Miss Kraft Heinz reported adjusted EPS of $0.67, topping consensus of $0.62 by 8.1%. However, revenue of $6.35 billion fell short of $6.44 billion expectations, a 1.4% miss. Organic sales declined 4.2% year-over-year, driven by volume and mix headwinds of 4.7 percentage points.

While it's appropriate to lament the lack of bipartisan cooperation in Washington, just because something's bipartisan doesn't mean it's a good idea. Exhibit A could be Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator J.D. Vance's (R-OH) "Invent It Here, Make It Here" bill. Despite the name and its good intentions, it condemns promising federally funded inventions to waste away without doing a thing to build our domestic manufacturing base. It's scheduled to be considered this Thursday in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Then, through a series of blunders and missteps, things started to unravel. There was the fuel crisis of the 1970s, which led to an influx of Japanese imports that bested Detroit in fuel savings and reliability. And then there were various global financial collapses throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and a significant decline in automotive quality as the Big Three continued to push bigger and more expensive vehicles, at the expense of road safety and global competitiveness.

Ah, Midwestern food. There's something so incredibly comforting about seeing a butter cow at a state fair or digging into a hotdish. But there's more to Midwestern food than meets the eye, and I'll bet anyone who hasn't grown up in the Heartland can't ace all 15 of these questions about the region's most iconic dishes. But, hey, prove me wrong and try for yourself!

In July, home prices rose slightly from the month before, with a median listing price of $109,200. The number of listings on the market grew 4.1% from last month, which is typical for this time of the year in Detroit, and homes are also selling close to the same pace as the same time last year. Typically, home price per square foot in Detroit tend to rise in July.

A group of Illinois small farmers are meeting with members of Congress on Thursday in Washington to discuss their hopes for "transformational investments" in the next farm bill, which governs policy in the agricultural sector. As they see it, the new law could provide significant financial investment and protections that reduce economic inequality and racial injustice; build crop and human resilience to climate change and unpredictable weather; and improve access to nutritious food and sustainable, local systems.

The hand-stretched pies, fashioned into 13-inch rounds, can be customized to preference, with gluten-free crusts and vegan cheese available to suit dietary needs. Customers have called Diavola the best pizza in Indianapolis on TripAdvisor, with one person writing, "This place excels at pizza with a perfect thin crust on the bottom and crusty outside." Burrata can be plopped onto orders for an additional $3, but many people feel the recipes need no improvement -

My older brother has worked with pigs his entire adult life, managing about 70,000 of them across five counties, Faaborg says. But we got to a point where he went from laughing at me to saying: well, I guess maybe I'll quit my job and help you out. Now he's the most dedicated, says Katherine Jernigan, director of the Transfarmation Project at Mercy for Animals, a non-profit that helped the Faaborgs make the switch and set up their new business, 1100 Farm.