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Working Lunch Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. We don’t know who will take the checkered flag at next month’s NASCAR Chicago Street Race, but we do know who will be behind the checkered tablecloths. Chicago-based Levy was named Wednesday as the new food and beverage provider for the third annual pop–up race in Grant Park, bringing a refreshed lineup of restaurants to the July Fourth weekend event, from concessions to the premium hospitality clubs and suites. Meanwhile, a former top executive of Loretto Hospital on Chicago’s West Side has been charged in a massive $290 million fraud scheme that allegedly used stolen patient data to bill nearly $1 billion worth of bogus COVID-19 tests for purportedly uninsured patients at the height of the pandemic. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | Levy replaces Lettuce Entertain You, which handled food and beverages during the first two Chicago Street Races. | | | | | Anosh Ahmed, who was previously indicted in a related scheme to embezzle $15 million from Loretto itself, was charged in a new 24-count indictment with wire fraud, illegal kickbacks and other financial crimes. | | | | | Part of the challenge of operating birth centers is that neither private insurance nor Medicaid reimburse birth centers or midwives at the same levels as care from doctors in hospitals. | | | | | Learning Resources Inc. is pressing the justices to quickly decide whether the tariffs are legal, arguing the president illegally imposed them under an emergency powers law rather than getting approval from Congress. | | | | | The mansion tops the year’s prior highest-priced sale, which was of a 23rd-story, full-floor penthouse atop a Gold Coast tower. | | | | | It will remove the artificial dyes from U.S. products starting in 2027 and will no longer roll out new products with the dyes. | | | |
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