It's lunchtime, Chicago.

As Illinois closes in on its deadline of being carbon-free by midcentury, even as demands for energy rise, legislators in Springfield are looking to satisfy both needs through a strategy many so far have tried to avoid: allowing new, large-scale nuclear reactors to be built in the state.

The initiative wending through the General Assembly comes even though Gov. JB Pritzker vetoed and narrowed a similar plan two years ago when he set limits on the size of new nuclear power plants in Illinois. But the governor appeared open to taking a different tack when he said recently he’s willing to work with the bipartisan group of lawmakers backing the latest proposal that would permit the construction of nuclear reactors of any size.

And on the real estate front, a six-bedroom, 9,754-square-foot Winnetka mansion sold in early March for $4.35 million, and its sellers are GoHealth CEO Vijay Kotte and his wife, Shiraz, who paid $12.25 million in 2023 for a high-profile and vintage mansion on Lake Michigan in Winnetka.

Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch.

Top business stories | Real estate