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The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago (FHLBank Chicago) announced that it has granted $20.6 million via its Affordable Housing Program (AHP) General Fund to help finance 35 housing projects in Illinois and Wisconsin.

After showing signs of growth in September, the southeastern Wisconsin manufacturing sector returned to a downward trend in October as companies saw customers pull back on orders and payments, according to the latest Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing.

Wisconsin ranks 27th for business tax competitiveness, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation’s 2023 State Business Tax Climate Index.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual plans to once again pay out a record amount in dividends next year with policy holders set to receive $6.8 billion, the company announced Wednesday.

A 19-acre estate on the shore of Geneva Lake has been sold for $16.5 million, according to state records.

Wisconsin added 14,400 private sector jobs in September, even as the state's labor force participation rate dropped by 0.3 percentage points for the second straight month.

Generac Holdings Inc. has cut its full year guidance for 2022 by roughly $560 million as its production of home standby generators has outpaced installation capacity.

A Mount Pleasant home designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Karen Johnson Boyd, of the S.C. Johnson Family, has sold to a limited liability company for $1,025,000.

Milwaukee-based A.O. Smith Corp. took the somewhat unusual step Thursday of releasing preliminary results for the third quarter ahead of its scheduled earnings release at the end of the month.

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