15 October 2026
For Sale. Just Not to You.
Buying a home is the biggest check most families ever write.
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Still on it. Every story we keep following the money on, newest first.
14 October 2026
The Data Center, the Grid...and You
One’s always hungry. One’s running short. One picks up the check.
14 October 2026
Netflix Got Paid to Lose
Netflix let about 1,000 people go this morning.
11 October 2026
The Cost of Hope
Kalshi traded $60 billion in September. The people who can’t stop get folding chairs and stale coffee.
8 October 2026
Trick or Trade
Halloween costumes to include ‘trader’ in 2026.
7 October 2026
What’s Next?
The question lands on every job sooner or later.
6 October 2026
The Landlord, Claude and You
One owns the building. One pays the rent. One gets the bill.
2 October 2026
The Bears Sent in Mr. Wolf
Roger Goodell sat down with the governor on Thursday. Hammond wasn’t in the room, Pat Ryan was. And his own stadium opens tonight.
30 September 2026
Aldermen spent their meter votes on a sealed promise to sell a deportation airline
Aldermen traded their votes for a promise to sell a deportation airline. The vote is spent. The airline is not sold. The promise is sealed. And the buyer has no name.
16 September 2026
A 99-year lease on 440 acres of Chicago lakefront, and nobody has read it
Blue Owl kept the ground. Related Midwest and CRG are building on land they will never own. The lease runs to 2124 and the terms are not public.
16 September 2026
The Bears stadium deal
Who wants the new stadium, who pays for it, and what sits under the ground they are testing.
15 September 2026
How the money moves, PILOT, Lake County, and the system that does not need a suitcase
The Chicago Bears Stadium Saga, Part Two. How public cash is designed to travel in this region. Past, present, and if this deal closes, next.
15 September 2026
A dome on slag, a tax bill on schools, and a team still called Chicago
The Chicago Bears Stadium Saga, Part One. Who wants the new stadium, who pays for it, and what is buried under the Hammond dirt.
15 September 2026
A Burnham tower Brookfield bought for $306 million just sold for $41 million
Twenty-nine dollars a foot for a full Loop block. Nothing about the building failed.
13 September 2026
A quantum campus on the South Side will be taxed at the same rate as a bungalow for thirty years
Over a billion in public money, a thirty-year tax rate, and nothing signed with the neighborhood.