Gene & Georgetti owner says the city is pushing her out at Midway to make way for Bally’s • Illinois House Democrats introduce new transit funding plan, eye billionaire and entertainment taxes
Working Lunch Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | | |
| | | | | Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson and his wife, Jessica, sold their four-bedroom, 3,940-square-foot house in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth, Mich., for their $1.1 million asking price. | | | | | The owner of Gene & Georgetti, the iconic Chicago steak house, said she is being pushed out of her space at the Midway Airport concession area after five years to make room for a Bally’s sports bar. | | | | | With time running short in the Illinois General Assembly’s fall veto session, Democratic lawmakers proposed new taxes on many large entertainment events and billionaires to raise the $1.5 billion advocates say is needed to fund public transit adequately. | | | | | Cook County Health and University of Illinois College of Medicine are expanding their partnership to provide care to patients, more training for medical students and more research opportunities. | | | | | Medline – a massive medical supply company based in Northfield – publicly filed paperwork Tuesday for a proposed initial public offering. | | | | | Half of the cheap-and-tasty paradigm that makes junk food so appealing is collapsing: Many of those guilty-pleasure treats aren’t so cheap anymore. | | | | | La Grange Park presented its 31st Street Transportation Plan for an area een as a district the village wanted to develop as a destination. | | | |