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Working Lunch Friday, August 15, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. For fast-food fans of a certain age, a familiar name has begun popping up again in the Chicago suburbs this summer. Jack in
the Box, which exited the Chicago market four decades ago, returned last month to open the first of eight company-owned restaurants, a converted Arby’s in southwest suburban Plainfield that continues to draw long lines of diners on a gastronomical trip down memory lane. Meanwhile, it’s been a little over six months since President Donald Trump began his
second term. In that time, the economic landscape has shifted drastically: The new administration has implemented broad tariffs on U.S. trade partners, the stock market has both plummeted and soared, hiring is down, fears of a recession are on the rise and, perhaps most notably for everyday Americans, consumer prices are changing. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Top business stories | Real estate | Transportation | | | | Nostalgic visitors will find that Jack in the Box’s signature tacos are still on the menu. So are burgers, egg rolls and other items. | | | | | 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. | | | | | Bob Sirott and John Records Landecker, who held down afternoon and evening shifts respectively for much of the 1970s on WLS, are reuniting on the air at WGN for a three-hour tour of anecdotes, DJ interviews, vintage jingles and listener calls. | | | | | A new tower would add several hundred inpatient beds, along with at least five operating rooms, to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. | | | | | Up to now, the highest sale in Burr Ridge has been the $6.9 million purchase of a six-bedroom house by Carmela Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Juice WRLD. | | | | | The president’s erratic and radical trade policies are paralyzing businesses and raising doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. | | | | | The $9.8 million will enable the expansion of cargo ramp positions as the Gary/Chicago International Airport moves forward on Phase 1 of its cargo expansion services | | | |
