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Working Lunch Thursday, June 26, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. The first big wave of Illinois residents is
benefitting from a long-awaited network of clean energy job training hubs established under Illinois’ ambitious 2021 climate law, the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. The inclusion of job training was a major demand of environmentalists and their allies, who were determined to see Black and Latino communities share in the benefits of the clean energy economy. “This moment is massive,” said Juliana Pino, interim co-executive director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. “It’s really significant because before the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, communities had to fight very hard to even have (access to job training) be respected and understood.” And over in St. Charles, a new Whole Foods grocery store is officially
open downtown, and dozens of customers gathered Wednesday morning for the festivities. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | Eleven of 16 major training hubs established under the state’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act are up and running. | | | | | The new store at 300 S. Second St. in St. Charles is filling the space of the old Blue Goose Market. | | | | | The U.S. dollar weakened following recent bouts of volatility. | | | | | President Donald Trump will control the so-called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan-based Nippon Steel to buy out iconic American steelmaker U.S. Steel, according to disclosures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. | | | | | The village is moving forward with plans to build a detention basin in the fields near Polaris Intermediate School. | | | |
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