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Working Lunch Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. A group of about 10 graduates from the Collins Academy High School in North Lawndale have worked with their onetime football coach, computer science teacher and mentor, Lawon Williams, and architect Bryan Hudson, to design a set of three homes and watch them come together from start to finish — while
also occasionally being put to work removing fences and putting up drywall. The project is part of a nonprofit Williams started called TechCo Savvy Inc., an after-school program that aims to expose youths age 13 to 20 to jobs in STEM fields. And when it comes to regulations, hemp business owners sent a flurry of campaign contributions to key Illinois lawmakers this fall to ward off a feared shutdown of their industry, though it paled in comparison to the money that licensed cannabis companies have given over the years, state records show. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Get news alerts | Top business stories | Real estate | | | | Graduates from Collins Academy High School worked with their former teacher’s nonprofit to design and construct homes for their neighborhood. | | | | | Business owners recently gave more than $30,000 to oppose a bill they said would have shut them down. | | | | | Public charging for electric trucks — including the largest semi-trailers — is on the way in the state. | | | | | Illinois is the only state that requires a behind-the-wheel driving test for seniors based on age. | | | | | Lincolnshire resident John Cooper is selling an unspecified number of co-ownership shares in the onetime Jordan estate for at least $1 million each. | | | |
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