04/17/25: What's holding together Kirkland's Trump deal?

Chicago’s largest law firm has no formal agreement backing the deal it reached with the Trump administration. Crain’s reporter Mark Weinraub and host Amy Guth discuss why the deals with Big Law are nowhere to be found. Plus: Durbin pushes to save DOJ’s Chicago antitrust office from chopping block, Chicago names a City Hall vet as acting aviation commissioner, Raoul joins state AGs urging Congress to break up pharmaceutical middlemen and new stores slated for shuttered Dom's in Old Town, Whole Foods in River North.

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