UChicago Medicine hopes to expand its cancer care nationwide, announces first affiliation with Kansas hospital • Sterling Bay puts vacant life sciences building up for sale, the latest chapter in Lincoln Yards saga
Working Lunch Wednesday, August 20, 2025 | | |
| | President Donald Trump wants the U.S. government to own a piece of Intel, less than two weeks after demanding the Silicon Valley pioneer dump the CEO that was hired to turn around the slumping chipmaker. | | | UChicago Medicine hopes to expand its cancer care across the country — becoming the latest hospital system to try to grow by working with health systems outside its home turf. | | | The 285,000-square-foot riverfront tower at 1229 W. Concord Place, meant to be the centerpiece of a vibrant life sciences complex, sits empty on the southern end of the mostly vacant Lincoln Yards. | | | While NASCAR is bypassing the Chicago Street Race next summer, it is filling the void on the schedule with a Cup Series race during July Fourth weekend at the long-dormant Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet. | | | Wall Street continues to drift Wednesday while news of a leadership change at Target took some of the spotlight away from the latest batch of corporate earnings reports. | | | Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson and his wife, Jessica, paid $3.25 million for a six-bedroom, 6,227-square-foot mansion in Lake Forest, not far from the Bears’ Halas Hall headquarters and offices. | | | Dutch Bros Coffee, a java chain with something of a cult following, wants to lock down its first suburban Chicago location in Naperville. | | | Air Canada said it will gradually restart operations after reaching an agreement early on Tuesday with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike that disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of travelers. | | | |