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Working Lunch Monday, June 30, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. A $24 million lead paint lawsuit payout. Dissatisfied residents. Staff members who have seen the vast majority of executive leaders turn over in the last 10 months. The Trump administration’s priorities to slash the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development’s programs and staff. These are just some of the issues the next CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority, the third largest public housing authority in the country, will face coming into the role. And Mayor Brandon Johnson must pick that new leader in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, millions of people across Illinois are anxiously awaiting the next move on a bill that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid across the country. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | Johnson, who has made housing a cornerstone of his policy agenda, faces a tough decision in the coming weeks to choose a new leader for the embattled agency. | | | | | Across Illinois, 3.4 million people are covered by Medicaid, which is about one-fourth of the state’s population. | | | | | Le Mignot bought the 1,429-square-foot condo, which is in a renovated building and has lake views, with her husband. | | | | | A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets who are suing the technology giant accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement. | | | | | Planning to ride the South Shore Line in the next couple of months? There’s still time to buy fares before they go up 10% on Tuesday. | | | | | The activists called on Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel to address the health, climate and economic impacts of the deal. | | | | | For the average residential customer, that’s an increase of about $23 a month, or 16.75%, phased in beginning Tuesday and into 2026. | | | |
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