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Jamie Lawless, who most recently was executive director of Baker McKenzie in Tampa, Florida, will become Husch Blackwell LLP’s CEO on Feb. 1, 2024, succeeding Milwaukee-based Paul Eberle at the helm.

On Monday, Gov. JB Pritzker, the state’s legislative leadership and representatives of the hospitality industry announced that hotels in Illinois saw record revenues in fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30. Across the state, hotels brought in $307.8 million, according to figures from the state’s Department of Revenue. That beats fiscal year 2019, the previous record year for hotel income and the last year before the pandemic upended the hospitality industry. Revenue in 2023 was up 35.8 percent…

GreaterHealth Pharmacy and Wellness is expanding its brick-and-mortar footprint, as it plans to open a second location at 6155 S Grand Blvd. in St. Louis’ Holly Hills neighborhood.

A new Aldi grocery store and a pair of new fast-food restaurants are being proposed along Tesson Ferry Road in south St. Louis County.

A tax subsidy issued years ago for a stalled redevelopment of downtown St. Louis' Railway Exchange Building could complicate plans by any new owner to bring life to the massive, vacant structure, according to public records and a longtime area developer.

The Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program expands on the $33 billion Rebuild Illinois infrastructure program signed into law in 2019.

The project, which would include up to 60 affordable housing units on a 5.8-acre property, already has $3.5 million in state and federal funding attached to it.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it filed a complaint in federal court in St. Louis seeking to bar a St. Louis tax preparer from assisting in preparing federal income tax returns for others.

After a St. Louis board game startup's cameo on "Jeopardy!," it has experienced a boost in sales while also expanding its business.

Construction will soon get underway on a new $61.97 million health sciences building as part of St. Louis Community College’s nearly $500 million facilities update at its four campuses.

Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed the tax cut he said a week earlier was responsible for his decision to veto most of the 201 spending items he cut from the state budget. The bill, exempting Social Security benefits and public pension payments from income tax, would reduce state general revenue by an estimated $309 million annually. It would also allow counties to hold a vote on whether people 62 or older should be exempt from increases in their annual property tax bills. The bill passed…

The top Democrat in the Missouri House officially launched her campaign for governor early Sunday morning, taking direct aim at her likely GOP rivals while touting efforts to restore abortion rights and block foreign ownership of farmland. State Rep. Crystal Quade, 37, is the first major Democratic candidate to enter the field to replace Gov. Mike Parson next year. In an introductory video announcing her campaign, she discussed being raised by a single mom and relying on food stamps before touting…

The Birmingham, Alabama-based restaurant chain is in expansion mode and has its sights set on the Midwest, as it will open its first location in the St. Louis region in Creve Coeur, hopefully before the end of the year, officials said.

Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, one of the St. Louis region's biggest, is changing its leadership structure from firmwide co-chairs to a single global CEO.

Passenger numbers at St. Louis Lambert International Airport last month outpaced those in June 2019, the city-owned facility said.

On pause for three years, Cortex's leader said they're seeking another tenant for the proposed $115M, 320,000-square-foot office and lab before moving forward on the project.

Automation & Control Concepts, a St. Louis-based industrial control systems integrator, has been acquired by a Pittsburgh-based tech and consulting business.

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the university's education and research efforts, raised a record amount during fiscal 2023.

St. Louis lawmakers on Friday passed a plan to pay for attorneys for tenants facing eviction proceedings.

Text messages are offering a new window into St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones' thinking, as she questions a pair of longtime allies and offers a more nuanced view of gun control and its affect on reducing violent crime.