Chicago has a higher downtown office vacancy rate than the Big Apple. Housing advocates say those buildings could help address the affordable housing shortage.

Through the Employment Training Panel, the cash targets 88 apprenticeship programs and 22,208 workers, many in construction.

Eight bridges along Interstate 80 stand ready for any movement, thanks to an $18-million seismic retrofit program. It involved upgrades to four westbound and four eastbound bridges: I-700, I-717, H-844 and I-740.

Brentwood Union School District’s 13th school provides 38 classrooms for approximately 700 students and includes outdoor recreation spaces and community infrastructure improvements, funded largely by a school bond.

Upgrading this 1.5-mile double-circuit electric transmission line over the Sacramento River in Rio Vista required construction of four new lattice steel towers from the ground up.