Chicago will make full $260 million advance pension payment this year, Mayor Johnson tells investors • Pullman Gateway complex now fully leased with opening of a new Chipotle Mexican Grill
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| | | | | More than 600,000 delivery drivers and customers across the country will soon receive payments under a settlement agreement over deceptive business practices alleged against Chicago-based Grubhub. | | | | | The mayor’s initial budget proposal last year recommended a smaller, $121 million, payment but aldermen argued that amount was insufficient for the city’s troubled pension funds. | | | | | The launch of the Far Southeast Side’s first Chipotle completes the lease-up of Pullman Gateway, an 8-acre retail development now 100% occupied by four well-known restaurant chains. | | | | | The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. | | | | | There are 17 participants in the Lake County Community Foundation’s Small Business Growth Initiative, educating entrepreneurs with businesses in Waukegan, North Chicago and Zion. | | | | | Kevin Warren and George McCaskey delivered an update on the Chicago Bears’ stadium quest that was short on news. At least there has been progress on the field. | | | | | Officials in Arlington Heights remain optimistic the Chicago Bears may again turn their attention toward the northwest suburbs, even after team brass said they’re focused on a new stadium in northwest Indiana. | | | | | The changes announced Thursday by Flock Safety are intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its system by some members of law enforcement. | | | | | Investigators say broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man’s head to be sucked into the hole in the fuselage. | | | | | U.S. stocks are ticking toward an all-time high following the latest sign that inflation is getting less bad. Stocks are also getting a lift Thursday from easing oil prices in their latest yo-yo move. | | | |
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