From startup seedling to cannabis powerhouse, Verano has navigated the industry’s ups and downs • Flossmoor home owned by first Black partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to go on market in April
Working Lunch Monday, March 9, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Oil prices have eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the Iran war hinders production and shipping in the Middle East. | | | | | The cannabis firm ranks third in retail sales nationally. But like many companies, Verano is facing pricing pressure, declining revenue and a falling stock price. | | | | | Built in the mid-1970s, the four-bedroom house was designed by Robert Wesley, who became Skidmore’s first Black partner in 1984. | | | | | A project along a brick street in Hinsdale that hasn’t had major work in 80 years gets a $1 million toward solving flooding issues. | | | | | Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the artificial intelligence company a “ supply chain risk ” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology. | | | | | Novo Nordisk is dismissing its patent infringement lawsuit against telehealth company Hims & Hers, as the two companies have reached an agreement that will see Novo Nordisk’s branded weight loss medicines sold through the Hims platform. | | | | | President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth, but instead it has kicked off with job losses, rising gasoline prices and more uncertainty about America’s future. | | | | | Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader, signaling no letup in the war launched by the U.S. and Israel. | | | |