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One of city's best post-modern houses, designed by Larry Booth in Old Town, just sold
A post-modern house that architect Larry Booth designed to bring as much natural light into its skinny urban shape, while also filling it with 1980s flourishes like curved walls and a pair of dramatic staircases, sold yesterday. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. That's despite rapidly shrinking...
Invenergy expands HQ again on Wacker Drive
Michael Polsky keeps taking more office space while most companies are taking less. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. The offering comes nearly two years after bondholders in a $203.5 million loan seized the property through foreclosure. A Canadian developer with a significant footprint in Chicago is...
Southwest adopts poison pill to counter activist Elliott
Southwest Airlines Co. has adopted a shareholder rights plan to defend against a push for a leadership overhaul by activist firm Elliott Investment Management. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. It's the latest pullback by a major U.S. carrier in the face of uneven travel demand and...
UChicago-born early warning device for sepsis gets FDA nod
With federal clearance in hand, UChicago-born AgileMD will begin testing its AI-powered device for predicting life-threatening deterioration of hospital patients. This exclusive Health Pulse content is only available to Health Pulse subscribers. Get a full year of access to Health Pulse + all Crain's Chicago articles and special reports. Here's...
Billionaire slams DeSantis for eroding Miami's new appeal
Billionaire Jorge Perez has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his real estate fortune to make Miami a magnet for the arts, determined to show there’s more to his town than partying. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. The governor is one of several traveling...
Philadelphia releases 'Land of the Cream Cheese' country song for the Fourth of July
Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. Within a year of acquiring the jelly bean purveyor, Ferrara Candy is laying off more than 60 workers at the site. The new "I Malörted" campaign likens a decision to order Chicago's favorite punishment shot to a hold-your-nose choice at the...
Of the biggest U.S. cities, Chicago gives first-time homebuyers the most buying power
Even with robust home price increases eating away at affordability, first-time homebuyers have more options in Chicago than in any other of the 10 largest U.S. metro areas, according to a recent report. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. Sales at the top crust are up from...
NASCAR is 1,000 miles from home — and it shows
For all the spectacle that is racing stock cars down DuSable Lake Shore Drive — picturesque views of the downtown skyline to the right, Lake Michigan to the left — the Chicago Street Race is nowhere near NASCAR at its fullest. To return to the motorsport's speedway utopia, drivers would have to skip Turn 4 at Roosevelt Road, continue down LSD to the Stevenson Expressway and head southeast for about 1,150 miles until they reach Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lender looks to unload distressed JW Marriott Chicago
The lender that foreclosed on the JW Marriott Chicago almost two years ago has put it up for sale, hoping an improving local hospitality market and one of Chicago's busiest summers ever for tourism will help break a sluggish stretch for hotel deals. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's...
Jelly Belly shuttering North Chicago plant: report
Within a year of acquiring the jelly bean purveyor, Ferrara Candy is laying off more than 60 workers at Jelly Belly's North Chicago plant as it reportedly plans to shut down the site. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. The new "I Malörted" campaign likens a decision...
Malört salutes those who can endure it
Jeppson’s Malört, the bitter liquor that’s become a Chicago dive-bar phenomenon for how bad it tastes, is embracing its hard-to-love reputation. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. Within a year of acquiring the jelly bean purveyor, Ferrara Candy is laying off more than 60...
U.S. labor market shows signs of losing steam, putting the Fed on alert
Economists and some Federal Reserve officials are increasingly on alert that pain could be on the horizon for American workers amid signs the labor market is losing steam. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. Austan Goolsbee feels “we are on a path to 2%” inflation.
Commentary: Tuskegee Next propels the next generation of pilots
Just think about what access did for you. It started with access to an opportunity that opened your imagination. In 2015, my husband, Stephen Davis, was the chair of the DuPage Airport Authority board when he was asked what he wanted his legacy to be for his tenure. He recognized that mandatory retirement would leave thousands of aviation jobs unfilled over the next 10 years while many people of color historically did not have access to aviation opportunities. With the help of strategic partners such as The Chicago Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals, Aerostar, airlines, donors and community partners, our foundation, the William and Mary Davis Foundation launched Tuskegee Next.
Opinion: Why Chicago's art scene is on the rise
Arguably, one of the most famous (and beloved) portrayals of a profound experience of art takes place not in Europe, New York or even Los Angeles, but in Chicago. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" was released in 1986: a jersey-clad teenager stands, struck, before Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" at the Art Institute of Chicago.
CDK says 'substantially all dealer connections are live' amid DMS reboot
CDK Global said most of its customers are back online with the company’s dealership management system as of July 2, nearly two weeks after cyberattacks led to a massive shutdown. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. Dealerships sue CDK for 'negligence in protecting users of its...
How the Supreme Court’s regulation ruling will change health care
The Supreme Court has dramatically transformed the dynamic between federal agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the entities they regulate. Subscribe and get unlimited access to Crain's Chicago Business. Dr. Mona Ghosh, who ran a women's clinic in Hoffman Estates, admitted to falsely billing insurers...
Upper-price home sales are zigging where the market is zagging
To get a measure of how much higher interest rates have cut into home sales, take a look at how much they have not cut into sales at the upper end of the market, where borrowing costs don't drive so much of buyers' thinking. Subscribe and get unlimited access to...
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