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Working Lunch Friday, July 18, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. Four Red Line stations across Uptown and Edgewater will reopen this weekend after years of construction. The four stations — Argyle, Bryn Mawr, Lawrence and Berwyn — were renovated as part of a $2.1 billion Red and Purple line modernization project paid for by a combination of grants, federal money, transit tax increment financing dollars and CTA funds. Meanwhile, former Chicago Bulls player DeMar DeRozan on Wednesday placed his six-bedroom, 10,179-square-foot, Georgian-style mansion in Chicago’s River North neighborhood on the market for $6.25 million. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | The CTA operated temporary stations at Argyle and Bryn Mawr, but the Lawrence and Berwyn stations have been shuttered for more than four years. | | | | | DeRozan bought the mansion in 2021 from an opaque land trust whose beneficiary was Juanita Vanoy Jordan, the former wife of Bulls legend Michael Jordan. | | | | | In the latest headache for CHA, law firm Goldberg Segalla used artificial intelligence in a post-trial motion and neglected to check the work, court records show. | | | | | The department has doled out tens of thousands of dollars in fines to dozens of nursing homes throughout the area. | | | | | The council signed off on two new residential developments that will add a total of 154 new homes to the city. | | | | | The Senate approved the vast majority of Trump’s requests Thursday. | | | |
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