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Redevelopment Underway At Thompson Center

The Mid-America Carpenters are working on the $280 million redevelopment on the famed Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. This is one of the city’s most high-profile projects and Union Carpenters are the go-to workforce to make sure the job gets done right. The building’s facade and internal systems will all be replaced as the building […]

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A construction worker operates a red scissor lift at a building site with a partially constructed steel frame structure, surrounded by dirt, grass, and debris under a cloudy sky.

East St. Louis Carpenters Updating Community Center

In East St. Louis, Union Carpenters with Plocher Construction are building on an already impressive success story. The Jackie Joyner-Kersee Community Center is undergoing a $20 million expansion, including this soon-to-open wrestling center. An East St. Louis native, Joyner-Kersee shot to fame in the 1980s as the first American woman to win Olympic gold in

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