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Working Lunch Wednesday, July 2, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. The annual NASCAR Chicago Street Race is upon us, and the forecast calls for a 50% chance of thunderstorms and 100% chance of flooding the airwaves with shots of The Bean, the beach, skyscrapers and deep-dish pizza. But
as the street race enters its third and possibly final run through Grant Park this July Fourth weekend, it may be time to take stock of a hard to quantify but potentially invaluable benefit: a seemingly endless loop through the Loop on national TV. Moving outside the city, Dolton officials are moving ahead with plans to buy Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the village, hoping to snap up the modest brick home that has gained international attention before a planned auction. The Village Board at a special
meeting Tuesday voted unanimously to move forward on buying the house at 212 East 141st Place, and said there are plans to buy an adjacent home. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | Chicago’s telegenic lakefront and skyline will once again serve as a live backdrop to race cars careening around an urban circuit. | | | | | Dolton officials are moving ahead with plans to buy Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the village, hoping to snap up the modest brick home that has gained international attention. | | | | | At best, President Donald Trump's “no tax on Social Security” claim exaggerates the benefits to seniors if either the House or Senate-passed proposals is signed into law. | | | | | An analysis finds that a critical group of U.S. employers would face a direct cost of $82.3 billion from President Donald Trump’s current tariff plans, a sum that could be potentially managed through price hikes, layoffs, hiring freezes or lower profit margins. | | | | | The owner of two allegedly fraudulent COVID-19 testing labs linked to a disgraced ex-executive of Loretto Hospital pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he was part of a sprawling fraud scheme that siphoned more than $290 million in federal funds for testing that never occurred. | | | | | Mariano’s announced it is closing its West Glenview location, which has a Northbrook address and is nestled in a shopping center surrounded by Northbrook. | | | |
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