Instacart is partnering with Uber Technologies Inc. to offer restaurant delivery through the Instacart app — taking on the top US food delivery app, DoorDash Inc. Instacart users in the US will be able to order from hundreds of thousands of restaurants using an Uber Eats interface that will become available within the Instacart app sometime in the coming weeks. Orders will be fulfilled by Uber’s couriers, while grocery delivery will remain separate and operated by Instacart. “You could say that we’re a threat to DoorDash both independently and teaming up as well,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to ..read more

Address: 546 Lakeland Drive, Lake Bluff Price: $4,175,000 Listing date: Aug. 13, 2023 This five-bedroom, 7 ½-bath home in Lake Bluff lies along a ravine and has a multi-level lawn and garden with stone walls. The backyard space also features a swimming pool and a blue stone patio. Inside the home are six fireplaces, a 10-foot ceiling on the first floor and 9-foot ceilings on the second floor. The first-floor bedroom suite can serve as a guest room and a bonus room on the second floor can be a sixth bedroom. The kitchen comes with new appliances including a double oven, range and bar fridge. Th ..read more

Developers have begun the long-awaited transformation of the James R. Thompson Center into a high-tech home for Google, a move heralded by state and city officials as a new beginning for downtown Chicago, which is still struggling with empty offices and storefronts. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a Monday news conference that Google’s arrival could bring some magic back to the Central Loop. “Google is one of Chicago’s great corporate citizens, and we are so proud to see it become a central feature of downtown Chicago,” Pritzker said. “This is an incredible investment in (Google’s) future, and ours ..read more

Two Chicago South Side nonprofit news startups brought home the highest honor in journalism Monday, winning Pulitzer Prizes. A collaboration between City Bureau and Invisible Institute won the local reporting award for “Missing in Chicago,” a seven-part investigative series focused on how police mishandling of missing person reports disproportionately impacts Black women and girls. Co-authored by Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute, the exhaustive two-year study analyzed over 1 million police records and interviewed more than 40 sources to identify syste ..read more

More than 1,000 residents and fellows at University of Chicago Medicine have voted to unionize, joining their peers at other large Chicago-area health systems. The doctors hope to soon negotiate their first contract with UChicago Medicine. They’re looking for improved pay and working conditions. Residents often work at hospitals after earning medical degrees, as they train to become specific types of doctors. Fellows are doctors pursuing additional training after their residencies. The residents often work more than 80-hour weeks, yet can struggle financially and have hundreds of thousands of ..read more

A new Metra station in Edgewater is set to open after a decade of talk and more than 2.5 years of construction. The Peterson/Ridge station, on the Union Pacific North Line, is expected to open May 20. Metra will also boost weekday service on the line when the station opens, adding trains during morning and evening peak periods in an effort to fill gaps in rush-hour service and reduce crowding on some trains, the rail agency said. The new $27 million station, which broke ground in November 2021, came in about $5 million more and a year later than expected when construction began. They were the ..read more

WASHINGTON — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are needed lest the programs become unable to pay full benefits to retiring Americans. Medicare’s go-broke date for its hospital insurance trust fund was pushed back five years to 2036 in the latest report, thanks in part to higher payroll tax income and lower-than-projected expenses from last year. Medicare is the ..read more

The Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox have partnered with Standard Media Group to form a new regional sports network with plans to begin broadcasting games in October, a source confirmed to the Tribune. However, the Chicago sports teams face several hurdles. For example, the NHL, NBA and MLB all have to sign off on the plan, so any major hiccup in a complicated agreement could scuttle the deal and the teams would have to go in a different direction, either collectively or separately. A source also refuted a report that the trio previously had a deal in the works with Stadium Network, of which Bu ..read more

WLS-Channel 7 chief investigative reporter Chuck Goudie on Friday placed his six-bedroom, 6,204-square-foot French chateau-style mansion in Hinsdale on the market for $3.995 million. An inveterate newshound who is known for his many scoops as well as a shelf full of broadcasting’s top awards, Goudie, 68, has been ABC 7’s lead investigative reporter since 1990. A Michigan native, Goudie joined the station in 1980. Goudie has been a longtime Hinsdale resident. He and his late wife Teri, who died in 2022, previously owned another Hinsdale house several blocks away. Through a land trust ..read more

The Chicago Tribune has extended to June 7 the deadline for nominations for our 15th annual Top Workplaces special report, in which we explore how organizations create and sustain a positive and productive culture. We’ll also compile a list of this year’s Top Workplaces in the Chicago area. So far, more than 250 organizations have signed up to participate. A Top Workplace is successful because its employees enjoy their work, embrace their mission and feel like valued teammates. This year those qualities are more important than ever thanks to a strong job market. To qualify for consideration as ..read more