Restaurant owners tinker with wine lists — and pricing

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1. Restaurants, keen to keep prices down, tinker with the wine list

Owners are getting creative to lure customers who have grown weary of paying through the nose for their dinner.

2. Former Salesforce offices in River North could become apartments

Chicago Development Partners is nearing a deal to buy the mostly empty office property at 111 W. Illinois St. at a major discount to the property's pre-pandemic value.

3. South suburban airport could bring over $1B in economic activity, study says

State and local officials still have misgivings with the proposal that's been kicked around for decades.

4. Walgreens considers selling entire VillageMD stake

The retail pharmacy giant's disclosure signals a possible about-face for its ambitions to transform from a drug store chain into a true health care provider.

5. Chicago investment firm picks up Vernon Hills apartments for $28M

The trade of the 85-unit apartment complex in the northern suburbs had an added sweetener for the buyer — assumable debt.

6. City delays $643 million bond deal due to market volatility

Chicago had planned to come to market during what was expected to be a busy week for municipal bond sales.

7. The Dining Table podcast: What's next for Maple & Ash

David Manilow talks with partners Jim Lasky and Danny Grant about their ambitions for the future.

8. Abbott, Medtronic to pair glucose monitor and insulin pump

The linkup could get Abbott closer to establishing continuous, automatic insulin adjustment for diabetics.

9. The priciest time to go house shopping, ever: Crain's Daily Gist podcast

Crain’s residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin joins host Amy Guth to break down the latest Chicago real estate data.

10. A veteran affordable housing developer looks back on a half century of work

Hipolito "Paul" Roldan, who is retiring after nearly 50 years at Hispanic Housing Development, has been one of Chicago's most prolific affordable housing developers.