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Hemp plants grow under specialized lighting in a grow house at Trent Lawrence's vegetable and hemp farm in Tazewell County.

‘This is farming like we’ve never done before.’ Illinois hemp farmers face risks with first planting of newly legal crop

August 2, 2019 at 1:34 p.m.

Thousands of young hemp plants dance in the breeze as fans blow through a loft on Trent Lawrence's organic produce farm. And once a day, they dance to Bob Marley....

Columbia Care employee Mickey Nulf hands client Michelle Farina her purchase June 14, 2019, at the company's dispensary in Chicago's Jefferson Park neighborhood. Columbia Care is rolling out a credit card for customers to use at its dispensaries.

Marijuana dispensary rolls out its own credit card as weed industry works to go beyond cash-only sales

June 15, 2019 at 9:27 a.m.

Marijuana company Columbia Care is rolling out a credit card for customers to use at its dispensaries, creating a new payment option for a clientele that has largely had to...

Uptake’s second in command is moving into an adviser role

June 14, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.

The president of Uptake Technologies is moving into a role as board adviser at the Chicago-based data mining company. Ganesh Bell, a former General Electric executive, started as president of...

Matt Linder, an autonomous vehicle software developer and analyst with VSI Labs, sits in the driver seat as the self-driven vehicle is steered with Here Technologies' map program along the Kennedy Expressway on June 10, 2019 in Chicago.

An autonomous vehicle took on Chicago’s thick morning traffic. Here’s what happened.

June 13, 2019 at 10:41 a.m.

Autonomous vehicles conjure visions of futuristic machines that lack steering wheels, but the first driverless cars probably won't actually be driverless. Instead, manufacturers will likely start out with low levels...

Illinois residents who shop online could be paying more in sales tax under a new measure passed by the state's General Assembly.

Illinois residents can expect to pay higher taxes when shopping Amazon and Etsy next year. Here’s why.

June 8, 2019 at 11:20 a.m.

Shopping online would get more expensive for Illinois residents under a new measure passed by the state's General Assembly that changes the way online sales are taxed. The changes would...

Rene Martinez, a data center tech operations technician, helps deliver connectivity for a customer at the QTS data center on July 10, 2018.

Data center boosters hope new tax incentives ‘stop the bleeding,’ keep tech sites in Illinois

June 4, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

Illinois lawmakers approved a data center tax incentive proponents say could make tech giants and other firms think twice about locating their data storage facilities anywhere else. The incentive, passed...

Products are put on display Jan 16, 2017, before store hours at Dispensary 33 in Chicago. The state's 55 medical dispensaries can apply to sell recreational marijuana, and many already are preparing for an influx of new customers.

Recreational marijuana goes on sale Jan. 1 in Illinois. Dispensaries are already getting ready.

June 6, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

Recreational marijuana is just a signature away from being legal in Illinois, and dispensaries are staffing up, remodeling, and wasting no time preparing for new foot traffic. Illinois lawmakers approved...

Eric Lefkofsky, left, CEO of Tempus and Co-Founder of Groupon, shakes hands with then Mayor Rahm Emanuel, University of Illinois President Tim Killeen and Governor Bruce Rauner before speaking in downtown Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.

Cancer-fighting data company Tempus raises another $200 million, making it one of Chicago’s highest valued startups

May 30, 2019 at 8:50 a.m.

Tempus, the cancer-fighting tech company led by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, raised another $200 million to use its data to treat diabetes and depression. The latest fundraising values the company,...

Light poles with 5G technology at Millennium Park on May 23, 2019.

Verizon’s 5G network in Chicago lives up to the hype most of the time. Beyonce’s ‘Homecoming’ downloaded in seconds.

May 30, 2019 at 10:19 a.m.

Verizon's 5G network is up and running in Chicago, and when it works, the fifth generation of wireless lives up to the hype. But the network is still in its...

Vivid Seats software engineer Sumedha Gupta works on the Android app for the company in downtown Chicago on April 16, 2019.

Hey grads: Chicago’s tech job market is sizzling. Here’s how 3 workers landed spots in cybersecurity, software developing and IT.

May 22, 2019 at 9:05 a.m.

With graduations fast approaching, a new crop of technology job candidates is preparing to enter the market. Their prospects look good. Tech-related employment grew in the Chicago area by almost...

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