(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN Acts Housing, a nonprofit organization that helps first-time homebuyer find affordable options for their first home, is expanding services in Beloit and Rock County thanks to nearly $2 million in new funding. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) SHINE announced today it has received a conditional commitment for a loan of $263M from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF). MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG Beloit College is partnering with a Janesville business consulting company to launch a two-day entrepreneur, business owner conference in September that will feature national speakers. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN The Pinnons Meats store at the corner of Willowbrook and Stateline roads in Beloit had opened for its first day on Monday and by 2 p.m. several cars were in the parking lot and customers were looking over the fresh-cut steaks and stuffed...

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG The second biggest banking company in Chicago is jumping into the Beloit market. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG Construction has started on the last big piece of the Ho-Chunk casino, hotel, convention center project. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson and Ryan Spoehr, APG The former Mac’s Pizza Shack building in Janesville has sold, and its sale signals new use for the restaurant space along a busy stretch of Milton Avenue. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN On Friday, Allison Walsh presented the film, “All of the Above,” at the Hendricks Center for the Arts as part of the Beloit International Film Festival (BIFF). MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG Nine entrepreneurs from Wisconsin and Illinois will make their best investment pitches at The Castle starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 26 in what the organizer hopes will become a new tradition to replace a lost one. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Ryan Spoehr, APG A new Great Harvest Bakery and Cafe, on the former site of a United Way building, should be open by mid-May on North Main Street in downtown Janesville. MORE INFO