Good morning, Chicago.
A five-bedroom, 16,000-square-foot Georgian-style mansion on Lake Michigan in Winnetka sold for $34.5 million including personal property — a Chicago-area sales record for the sale of any single residential property in history.
The mansion’s sellers, Jeffrey Quicksilver, who cofounded real estate investment firm Walton Street Capital, and his wife, Ashley, who owns the high-end Winnetka women’s boutique Athene, bought the property in 2013 for $8 million from Carry Buck, the ex-wife of Chicago developer John Buck. The Quicksilvers then knocked down the Bucks’ longtime 13-room mansion and built the mansion that they just sold.
And here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including why residents of a raided apartment building formed a union, why Bears defensive end Montez Sweat is heating up and reviews of two bakeries in Chicago.
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White House circulates a plan to extend Obamacare subsidies as Trump pledges health care fix
The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as millions of Americans face spiking health care costs when the current tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year.
Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act — passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Donald Trump — in court filings asking Manhattan federal Judges Richard M. Berman and Paul A. Engelmayer to reconsider their decisions to keep the material sealed.
Federal agents raided a Chicago apartment building two months ago. Now its residents have formed a union.
Almost two months after the militarized raid that roused them from their sleep and made international headlines, those who remain living — or trying to live — at 7500 South Shore Drive gathered yesterday morning in the cold outside their deteriorating apartment building in a show of solidarity.
Amid five floors of mostly empty units — some still boarded up from the nighttime immigration raid Sept. 30 — the 36 people who still live there have united to form the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union. The move to unionize comes after a Cook County judge earlier this month appointed a third-party receiver to manage the property and ordered the building to be vacated.
Investigation continues into pair of downtown shootings, including one that took the life of ‘vibrant’ teen Friday night
Chicago police continue to investigate a pair of shootings that unfolded in the Loop Friday night, leaving a 14-year-old boy dead and eight other teens wounded in the latest “teen takeover” that marred the city’s start of the holiday season.
Scores of teens were among the crowd that gathered downtown for the city’s annual tree-lighting ceremony in Millennium Park on Friday.
Amazon plans $15B data center campuses in Northwest Indiana for state’s largest construction project
Amazon plans to spend $15 billion for the largest construction project in Indiana history, building data center campuses in Northwest Indiana and creating 1,100 new jobs, officials said.
Sites for them have not yet been finalized, although AWS is in negotiations with multiple communities, he said yesterday.
With 2 sacks against the Steelers, Chicago Bears defensive end Montez Sweat is heating up at the right time
Sunday marked Bears defensive end Montez Sweat’s sixth game with two or more sacks in his seven-year NFL career, and his first since he had a career-high 2 1/2 sacks against the Cleveland Browns in 2023, not long after the Bears traded to acquire him.
Coach Ben Johnson awarded Sweat with one of two game balls in the locker room after Sunday’s victory. Sweat now has 7 1/2 sacks on the season, including 6 1/2 of those over the last six games.
- Bears Q&A: What to make of strength and training staffs in light of injuries? More prime-time games?
- Column: One more documentary on the 1985 Bears, the team that keeps on giving
Chicago basketball report: Angel Reese goes for gold — and Jon Scheyer comes home for Thanksgiving Classic
Angel Reese was one of 10 first-time invitees to December’s Team USA senior national team camp, where she’ll join notable names such as Kahleah Copper, Brittney Griner, Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers.
And a look at upcoming college basketball matchups, including a Chicago-based company that is bringing a Thanksgiving Day doubleheader to the United Center.
- Is Nikola Vučević underrated — or overhated — with Bulls? ‘Whatever. Who cares? He’s super important.’
- Bulls lose 143-130 to New Orleans, giving the Pelicans’ interim coach his first win
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rare Superman comic book! And it fetched $9.12M!
A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother’s attic, netted $9.12 million this month at a Texas auction house which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold.
Zach Bryan announces 2026 US and international tour dates
Zach Bryan is set to embark on his biggest international tour yet, “With Heaven on Tour,” a U.S. and European run of dates kicking off March 7, 2026 in St. Louis at the Dome at America’s Center.
Restaurant reviews: Bad Butter, a cult favorite bakery, and Blame Butter, a pietisserie, in Chicago
Bad Butter and Blame Butter tell the tales of two bakeries in Chicago. It is the best of times, and it is the butteriest of times. The former is a cult favorite preorder bakery at a hotel in the West Loop. The latter is a pop-up pie shop in the back of a poke shop in River North. By the end of the year, both will be gone as we know them.
My reviews won’t be starred due to the imminent changes, but I had to share in this peak pie and pastry season, writes Louisa Kung Liu Chu.
