Set to open in the fall, Northwestern’s $862M Ryan Field touted as ‘best place to watch football in America’ • Sports betting lobby suing to block Chicago’s new online wagering tax set to go into effect Thursday
Working Lunch Wednesday, December 31, 2025 | | |
| | | | | Retired Chicago Blackhawks goalie Nikolai Khabibulin and his wife, Victoria, sold their three-bedroom, 2,333-square-foot condominium for $1.355 million — some $407,500 less than they paid for it 20 years earlier. | | | | | As Northwestern wraps up a second season of playing football at a small lakefront field shared with the lacrosse and soccer teams, workers are busy building out a new $862 million football stadium in Evanston. | | | | | New tax on online bets in Chicago is projected to raise $26.2 million in 2026 and was included in the recently passed city budget. | | | | | The previous owner of the home removed its well-known horseshoe-style driveway. | | | | | Naperville’s Riverbrook Shopping Center to be new home to a 99 Ranch Market, slew of other Asian businesses opening in 2026. | | | | | On Dec. 12, lobster meat destined for Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota was stolen by a fraudulent trucking company. | | | | | Many materialized into a barrage of new import taxes that overturned decades of U.S. economic policy — but others have yet to be fulfilled as 2025 comes to a close. | | | | | Over the past few months, the City Council in this town of about 14,000 has approved a flurry of housing projects | | | |