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Working Lunch Thursday, June 12, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago Choose Chicago unveiled a new tourism campaign Thursday that
was developed over more than a year of listening sessions, focus groups, research and spitballing with creative agencies. The city’s tourism arm is hoping it has found a way to condense Chicago and market it to the world in four words: “Never Done. Never Outdone.” In other tourism news, the number of international guests staying at Chicago hotels is down amid tensions between the Trump administration and other nations, and economic uncertainty is discouraging business travel. But local hoteliers say they still expect a busy summer, thanks in part to a tourism calendar that relies heavily on domestic leisure travelers coming in for events like Lollapalooza and July’s two-day NASCAR Chicago Street Race. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | The city’s tourism arm is hoping it has found a way to sum up and sell Chicago to the world in four simple words: “Never Done. Never Outdone.” | | | | | Chicago’s summer tourism calendar relies heavily on domestic leisure travelers coming for events like Lollapalooza and a NASCAR race. | | | | | Exelon, the utility’s Chicago-based parent company, is donating the relief money, which will be administered through Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago and The Salvation Army to help customers behind in their bills, ahead of peak air-conditioning season. | | | | | The company that owns 360 Chicago last year bought the 95th and 96th floors of the building after the abrupt closure of the Signature Room restaurant and lounge. | | | | | Chicago’s existing law allows short-term rentals to be blocked only when 25% of a precinct’s registered voters sign a petition calling for it. | | | | | Arby’s is offering chances through June 22 to win tickets to the Chicago Street Race at 47 restaurants in the city and suburbs. | | | |
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