Ann Dwyer

Chicago

Editor at Crain's Chicago Business

Editor of Crain’s Chicago Business.

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Articles

Chicago law firms sign on to Trump challenge — but not many

2 weeks ago | chicagobusiness.com | Steven R. Strahler |Ann Dwyer

Nathan Eimer, a veteran Chicago litigator, says his mother Charlotte and her parents escaped from Austria just days before World War II erupted. A great-grandmother later perished at Theresienstadt, a ghetto and concentration camp waystation in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Suit accuses Chicago beverage entrepreneur of taking nearly $300K from investors

3 weeks ago | chicagobusiness.com | Brandon Raphael Dupre |Ann Dwyer

A Chicago beverage entrepreneur is accused in a lawsuit of taking nearly $300,000 from two investors to start a seltzer brand only to then launch his own competing company.
Jenner & Block sues Trump administration to halt executive order

3 weeks ago | chicagobusiness.com | Ann Dwyer

Chicago law firm Jenner & Block sued the Trump administration today, seeking to halt an executive order that could cripple the firm’s ability to represent clients. The suit, filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court, alleges the administration engaged in unconstitutional retaliation that violates the First Amendment. "Every day the Order remains in effect, it causes Jenner escalating and irreparable harm to its reputation and finances," its lawsuit says.
Greg Hinz: Yes, Illinois' economy is lagging. So what do we do about it?

4 weeks ago | chicagobusiness.com | Greg Hinz |Ann Dwyer

The report on the state of Illinois’ economy was beyond downbeat. Prepared for the Legislature by Moody’s Analytics last month, it laid out in excruciating detail how growth in Illinois as a whole and particularly metro Chicago is lagging not only the nation — as it has for many years — but the rest of the Midwest since the pandemic, with jobs, gross product, the unemployment rate, average hourly wage and more trailing and projected to remain soft for much of the rest of the decade.
Trump Organization sued over alleged malfeasance at Chicago tower

1 month ago | chicagobusiness.com | Rachel Herzog |Ann Dwyer

A former member of the condo-hotel board at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is accusing the Trump Organization of misallocating funds and conspiring to operate the hotel for its own benefit at the expense of investors. A Wisconsin man who owns a dozen of the tower’s hotel rooms and four of its residential condominiums filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump Organization and the board’s president alleging racketeering and fraud, according to court records.
Trump's Justice Department files to join legal challenge to Illinois nonprofit diversity law

1 month ago | chicagobusiness.com | Mark Walsh |Ann Dwyer

The Trump administration on Tuesday filed to join a legal challenge to an Illinois law that requires many nonprofit groups to disclose aggregate data about race, gender and other demographics of their board members and officers.
Illinois and Chicago economies shaky: Moody's COGFA report

1 month ago | chicagobusiness.com | John Pletz |Ann Dwyer

The Illinois economy and its main driver, Chicago, have been stuck in neutral lately, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Headwinds include long-standing trends, such as weak population growth, as well as some recent cyclical hiccups, such as tepid growth in white-collar jobs that have traditionally been a strength, according to a new economic forecast by Moody’s Analytics for the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting & Accountability.
Trump proposals give Motorola investors plenty to think about

1 month ago | chicagobusiness.com | John Pletz |Ann Dwyer

Motorola Solutions’ annual report lists the potential banana peels the Trump administration has thrown down for companies during its first month in office. From trade policy to diversity, the Chicago-based maker of police radios and video-security technology details them in the risk factors section of its latest 10K filing. (See below.) Companies often highlight a wide range of risks out of caution against shareholder lawsuits.
In budget address, JB Pritzker lays out an unexpected element: Breathing room.

2 months ago | chicagobusiness.com | John Pletz |Ann Dwyer

The budget situation in the coming year isn’t quite as dire as predicted but will put pressure on lawmakers to tighten their belts more than in past. That's the overall message as Gov. JB Pritzker today introduces a $55.4 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1, up from $53.5 billion a year ago.
Illinois state budget should tax services, Civic Federation says

2 months ago | chicagobusiness.com | John Pletz |Ann Dwyer

The Civic Federation isn’t letting a good crisis go to waste. It's advising politicians in Springfield to take bigger steps to solve the state’s financial challenges that will extend beyond the current budget year. The 29-page road map touches on familiar themes and some suggestions that have been raised before. At the top of the list is overhauling the state’s sales tax to extend it to include services — albeit not business services — while cutting the tax rate itself.