10/23/24: Restaurant owners fight a century-old booze ban
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One restaurant in Lincoln Square is leading the charge to end a three-block dry zone. Crain’s restaurants reporter Ally Marotti talks with host Amy Guth about the push to end an ordinance that predates Prohibition. Plus: Mayor Brandon Johnson loses top education adviser amid the upheaval at the Chicago Board of Education, Huntington Bank is closing six of its Chicago-area branches, Canada’s Manulife Financial is looking to cash out of the 409-unit Hancock Square apartments in Arlington Heights, and the city will end its migrant shelter system by the end of the year.
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