Segment 1: Lisa Nucci, Chief Marketing Officer, Choose Chicago, joins John Williams to tell us everything we should know about how the city is prepping for the DNC in Chicago. Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senior Writer, CNET, joins John to talk about social media influencers visiting the White House on Wednesday, and a federal judge indicating he will o…

Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about today’s inflation data, how inflation is moving in the right direction, what the new data means for interest rate cuts and Fed policy in September, why she hopes the market stays level, and what you should know about finding a trusted financial advis…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Northwestern Medicine is expanding in the northwest suburbs. The health system has announced plans to build a new outpatient center in Huntley. It’ll be located on Northwestern Medicine’s Huntley Hospital campus. The $96 million project will feature space for cancer …

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Chicago has a new healthcare venture fund. It’s called Create Health Ventures and Crain’s reports it just closed its inaugural fund that’ll invest in early-stage business-to-business digital health companies developing tools for insurance companies and pharmaceutical…

Segment 1: Tom Gimbel, job expert and founder of LaSalle Network, joins John to offer suggestions on how to best negotiate a job offer in today’s labor market. Segment 2: Philippe Weiss, President, Seyfarth at Work, joins John to talk about how companies are offering commuting incentives in an effort to come back to the office. Segment 3: Jared Dil…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A new ranking puts Chicago in the top five best locations for startups. CoworkingMag determined its 2024 list by analyzing 108 U.S. cities across several metrics including support system, available funding, setup costs and availability of talent. The ranking says Chi…

Segment 1: Ilyce Glink, owner of Think Glink Media and Best Money Moves, joins John to talk about a new survey that shows consumers expect inflation will be less of a problem in coming years, how we are absolutely not in a recession, home buyers frustrated with the housing market, and buyer’s agent commissions declining since the NAR settlement ann…

Segment 1: Faron Daugs, CFP, Founder and CEO, Harrison Wallace Financial Group, joins John to talk about what caused the big drop in the market on Monday, the market currently clawing back its losses, the difference between investors and traders, why he believes we will see two interest rate cuts this year, and the importance of keeping up to date …

Segment 1: Steven Esposito, President of Yellowstone Wealth Management in Lake Forest, talks to John about the wild market week, what was spooking the market, the lack of confidence in the Fed in Washington, how much interest rates should be cut in September, and why he sees buying opportunities in the market. Segment 2: Michael Jacobson, President…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Chicago hotels are thriving. The latest data from the city’s marketing arm, Choose Chicago, shows hotel room demand during the first six months of this year up 4.2% over 2023 with 5.2 million room nights. Hotel revenue was nearly 4% higher than 2023 at nearly $1.2 bi…

Segment 1: Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about the market volatility this week, and why this is a great opportunity to look at your 401K. Segment 2: Aki Ito, Chief Correspondent at Business Insider, joins John to talk about her recent piece showing that many college students are renegi…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. The company that makes electric vehicles in Illinois is still losing money despite cost cutting and increased sales. Rivian Automotive had a net loss of nearly $1.5 billion in the second quarter, nearly 21% higher than the loss at this time last year. Second-quarter …

Segment 1: Tom Gimbel, job expert and founder of LaSalle Network, joins John to talk about Friday’s labor report, how the market reacted yesterday and the slight recovery today, why he believes the economy overall is not a disaster, and what this all means for the 2024-2025 job market. Segment 2: Dennis Rodkin, residential real estate reporter for …

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A Chicago startup that helps makes changing jobs easier has secured new funding. When raised $4.6 million in a seed round led by B Capital. When is a post-employment job support platform that assists exiting workers with severance packages and insurance options. The …

Segment 1: Ilyce Glink, owner of Think Glink Media and Best Money Moves, joins John to talk about the scary day on the market, what is causing the markets to drop significantly today, and why this market dip isn’t the same as 1998 or 2008. Ilyce also explains what this day means for Fed policy. Segment 2: Angela Hall,, Co-Founder, Family Friend App…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Chicago-based snack maker Kellanova could be gobbled up soon by the Mars candy company. Mars is considering an acquisition of Kellanova, the spinoff of Kellogg. It became its own company las year after a separation from Kellogg’s cereal operations. Kellanova brands i…

Segment 1: Jane Oates, Senior Policy Advisor and recent President, WorkingNation, talks to John Williams break down the disappointing jobs report, and what this will mean with Fed policy and interest rate cuts, high prices continuing to hurt Americans, and the way AI is impacting the job market. Segment 2: Ed Kugler, Market Manager, Ravinia Farmers…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A new report says two high-income earners leave Illinois for every one that moves into the state. According to the data, compiled by the Cato Institute, Illinois is the worst at keeping affluent people. The Cato report, titled “Interstate Migration of High Earners an…

Segment 1: Greg McBride, Chief Financial Analyst, Bankrate, chats with John about yesterday’s Fed meeting and comments made by Chairman Powell that suggested an interest rate cut in September. Greg explains why we’ll likely see two interest rate cuts by the end of the year and what he thinks will happen in 2025. Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senior Write…

Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about the market rally today, how much an interest rate cut in September will impact the market, and how the Fed has typically dealt with interest rates in an election year. And as always, Terry answers all of your financial questions. https://serve.castfi…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Deere & Co. has announced new layoffs, this time impacting the company’s headquarters staff. 300 job cuts are happening at the Moline-based farm equipment maker. Deere had earlier announced layoffs among workers at a factory in East Moline and other manufacturing sit…

Segment 1: Tom Gimbel, job expert and founder of LaSalle Network, joins John to talk about how much AI should be used when you are building your resume or cover letter. Segment 2: Philippe Weiss, President, Seyfarth at Work, joins John to talk about what businesses can learn from the White House when dealing with their own succession planning Segme…

Segment 1: Ilyce Glink, owner of Think Glink Media and Best Money Moves, joins John to talk about 3D-printed homes, how the stock market has baked in an interest rate decrease in September, the need for interest rates to come down, and what we should know about the real estate market today. Segment 2: Jim Dallke, Director of Communications, TechNex…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Suburban-based Abbott Laboratories has been ordered to pay nearly $500 million in a case involving its baby formula. The jury award came in a lawsuit that alleged Abbott’s premature infant formula causes a potentially fatal bowel disease. A jury made the award in a S…

Segment 1: Tom Fortino, Founder and Principal, Alpha Wealth Group, and host of “The Alpha Wealth Hour” on WGN Radio, joins John to talk about the volatility of the markets this week, what is causing the market jumping today, the market starting to broaden, his outlook on Fed policy and rate cuts, how higher rates have been impacting the economy, an…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. The new $5 meal deal at McDonald’s is paying dividends. The discounted meal has led to a modest increase in visits to U.S. stores just as the burger chain had hoped. According to new data, traffic at McDonald’s stores began picking up in late May and continued growin…

Craig Bolanos, Co-Founder and CEO of Wealth Management Group, joins John to talk about how many interest rate cuts he thinks we’ll see this year, a second-quarter GDP report that showed the economy growing, why he believes the Fed has done a good job curbing inflation, what he makes of today’s market rally, how he anticipates the markets moving thr…

Segment 1: Nondas Plesiotis, Owner/Operator, McDonald’s in Wauconda, joins John Williams to talk about his history in the food industry, why he chose to work with McDonald’s, the way his community grew around McDonald’s, his experience running the business, and why the most important aspect of McDonald’s is the people. Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senio…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Discover Financial Services and Capital One face a proposed class-action lawsuit over their merger. The lawsuit claims the $35 billion dollar deal will hurt competition and raise prices for consumers. The complaint also claims the merger will mean fewer and less valu…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Scientists at the University of Illinois-Chicago are working on a new antibiotic that’ll make bacterial resistance nearly impossible. The new antibiotic attacks bacteria is two ways, which makes it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to develop resistance. …

Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about her recent column about applying for scholarships, why the markets are down today, how the lead up to the presidential election impacts the stock market, and if she was surprised that the markets didn’t move much after the RNC and when President Bide…

Segment 1: Tom Gimbel, job expert and founder of the LaSalle Network, joins John to talk about job interview tips and what you should or should not share during an interview. Tom tells John what we should know about political messaging at work. Segment 2: Longtime Chicago radio veteran Harvey Wells, Founder, Lower Tech Bills, talks to John about ho…

Segment 1: Ilyce Glink, owner of Think Glink Media and Best Money Moves, joins John to talk about the cost of last week’s global outage, and new homes being cheaper per square foot than existing homes. Segment 2: Jim Dallke, Director of Communications, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, tells John about a new report finding that Chicago venture capit…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A new report says there are significant challenges accessing capital in Chicago’s tech ecosystem. A local nonprofit, P33, says early-stage startups are having trouble pulling in local capital, even though Chicago has the third-largest gross domestic product in the co…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. United Airlines isn’t the only Chicago area company impacted by the CrowdStrike outage. McDonald’s and and Metra also reported problems. Three Metra-Union Pacific routes had delays that the transit agency blamed on on the CrowdStrike outage. An update of the cybersec…

Segment 1: Michael Miller, Economics Professor, Western Washington University and Professor Emeritus at DePaul University, chats with John about a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post comparing the economies of former president Trump and President Joe Biden. Segment 2: Alison Rigsby, past president of The Lake Zurich Lions Club, joins John t…

Segment 1: Steven Esposito, President of Yellowstone Wealth Management in Lake Forest, talks to John about the consumers willingness to spend, how we are starting to see a broadening of the market, good retail sales data, the signal that interest rates are coming down, and what would interest rate cuts mean for the market and economy heading into 2…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Gas prices could spike in the Chicago area after a power outage impacted the ExxonMobil refinery near Joliet. Damaged transmission towers have been fixed but it’s unclear whether power’s been fully restored to the facility. It lost service for several days. Gasoline …

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Farm machinery maker Deere & Co. is planning more layoffs. The Moline-based company has notified salaried employees there’ll be additional global salaried workforce reductions beginning July 24th. The company says the decision is due to declining customer demand, ris…

Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about how she is able to avoid financial scams, the Dow and S&P both performing extremely well this year, the inflation environment having a better outlook, and how many Fed rate cuts we will see this year, how AI is impacting the economy, and the importan…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center are among the top hospitals in the country. That’s according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospitals list. University of Chicago Medical Center is also high up in the rankings. Northwest…

Jennifer Bias, owner, Camp Aramoni, joins John to talk about the camp being a destination for boutique camping, how she came about to running a campground, how she ‘stumbled’ into finding the land, what the facility is like when you come for a stay, the restaurant on site for the campers, what other amenities they offer, how close they are to beaut…

Segment 1: Tom Gimbel, job expert and founder of LaSalle Network, joins John to talk about what employees need to know if they are posting on social media and how business leaders need to be transparent about company policy. Segment 2: Philippe Weiss, President, Seyfarth at Work, joins John to talk about how business leaders can take lessons from a…

Segment 1: Phillip Shaw, CFP, Senior Advisor, Goldstone Financial Group, tells John about inflation continuing to come down, what that means for Fed policy and interest rates, how many rate cuts he expects to see this year, why he says inflation is personal, the concern over mounting credit card debt, and how people should navigate their investment…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A Chicago-based cannabis operator raised nearly $95 million in April. And according to a group that tracks fundraising by startups, it’s the largest money round for a Chicago startup in the second quarter of this year. PharmaCann made the haul according to Pitchbook.…

Segment 1: Paul Nolte, Senior Wealth Advisor and Market Strategist, Murphy & Sylvest, joins John to talk about the inflation data released yesterday, how the market has been reacting to inflation data, what last week’s job report might mean for the economy, what all this data means for Fed policy on interest rates, and how many rate cuts he expects…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. The Revival Food Hall in Chicago’s Loop will be revived under a new name and with new ownership. The owners of the food court on Clark Street said it would close by the end of the month because they failed to get favorable lease terms. Now, an Atlanta-based hospitali…

Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Chicago’s downtown office vacancy rate hit a record high of nearly 26% in the first half of 2024. It jumped from 25% in the first quarter of the year. Real estate services firm CBRE says the downtown vacancy rate has hit new record highs in 13 of the past 15 quarters…

Segment 1: Emily Stewart, Senior Correspondent, Business Insider, tells John about ‘quiet vacationing‘ and what it tells us about the American workplace. Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senior Writer, CNET, joins John to talk about the Biden administration awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing, and Sa…

Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about the importance of remaining calm when the market fluctuates. Additionally, she answers a number of questions from WGN Radio listeners. https://serve.castfire.com/audio/5284644/5284644_2024-07-10-224844.64kmono.mp3 More with Terry Savage Recent Posts …