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Working Lunch Thursday, July 3, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. On the 40th anniversary of the “Back to the Future” movie premiere, Northbrook-based insurance giant Allstate is traveling back to the past to reveal its little-known role in developing the DeLorean, the
futuristic but short-lived, gull-winged, stainless steel car that served as Doc Brown’s time machine. “The cars exist because of the partnership Allstate had with DeLorean,” said Sandee Lindorfer, vice president of auto claims for Allstate. In other news, WTMX-FM morning host Chris Petlak and his wife, real estate agent Amy Rapp, in June paid $975,000 for a new house on the Northwest Side and sold their four-bedroom, 2,150-square-foot house in Logan Square for $800,000. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | Without Allstate, Marty McFly might never have left 1985 or perhaps would have traveled back in time in a Buick, forever disrupting the space-time continuum of the seminal movie trilogy. | | | | | The couple decided to move to their new house because they needed more space. | | | | | Microsoft is laying off thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years. | | | | | Target has been hurt by operational missteps, inflation’s dampening of consumer sentiment and tariff costs. The company also has found itself in the crosshairs of America’s culture wars. | | | | | U.S. consumers have been increasingly bypassing its products for healthier or cheaper options. | | | |
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