05/06/25: Chicago's best restaurants for business dinners and happy hours

Crain's list of the best restaurants offers recs for client dinners, lunch, post-workday drinks with colleagues and even a breakfast meeting option. Reporter Ally Marotti and host Amy Guth discuss about this year’s list and the restaurant group betting big on the Loop with new spots anchored to hotels. Plus: Gov. Pritzker shuts door on state funding for revised One Central megaproject, a business-backed group raises $10 million in bid to reshape City Hall, Rivian ups its Illinois investment with supplier park and a hotel group warns of travel hit as Trump administration policies chill tourism.

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