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Working Lunch

Monday, July 7, 2025

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The cost of an annual Divvy membership will plunge lower than it has in years for new users of Chicago’s bike share program, the city announced Thursday.

The cost of an annual membership to the Lyft-operated program will drop from $143.90 to $99 for new or returning members, the Chicago Department of Transportation said in a news release Thursday.

In other news, U.S. News & World Report ranked Illinois 47th out of 50 states for nursing home quality, based on federal reports of health inspections, staffing and other quality measures. A 2019 analysis by Families for Better Care, a nonprofit advocacy group, ranked Illinois 49th. And a Tribune search of records kept by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services showed Illinois has some 250 nursing homes with a quality rating of just one star out of five.

Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch.

Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation

Big discount on annual Divvy membership coming for new riders

Former users whose memberships have been expired for at least 30 days will be able to take advantage of the new price.

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Illinois nursing homes ranked among the worst in the nation; residents call for action

Nursing home operators say much of the problem comes from Illinois’ Medicaid reimbursement rate, which is lower than most other states and doesn’t fully cover the cost of providing care.

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Block party shows UnBlocked Englewood’s progress on repairing South Side homes

The initiative is acquiring vacant lots and repairing dozens of buildings on the South Side. The transformation has been beyond the neighborhood’s expectations.

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Chicago Board of Trade museum pays homage to city’s trading history, immortalized in movies like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’

The museum, which opens Tuesday, is the latest step in an effort to revive the nearly century-old board of trade building.

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Labor and disability advocates at odds over future of Chicago-area paratransit

The rideshare program has pitted disability advocates against organized labor, which sees the program as a way for Pace to outsource union jobs to poorly compensated gig workers at taxpayer expense.

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Residents push back on truck routes between Interstate 57, Illinois 394

Crete and Monee residents started a petition in protest of the east-west truck route.

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City issues permit for demolition of Damen Silos in McKinley Park

Neighbors call on city to ensure environmentally safe process after botched 2020 implosion in Little Village, hold out hope for green space.

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