John Pletz

I cover tech, startups, weed and airlines @CrainsChicago Business. It's an eclectic mix of things that can take off and get you high. [email protected]

[John Pletz @johnpletz]

Laura Ricketts will co-chair @JulianaStratton's finance committee in her run for U.S. Senate. https://t.co/99MqM0MkaU

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Here's a deal so cheap that it would have made @Groupon blush. @DannyEcker has the story on the massive discount on a storied Chicago office building.
https://t.co/AvF6dqP4Yl

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Judge says Outcome Health co-founder Shradha Agarwal can remain free on bail while she appeals her fraud conviction as Ashik Desai gets a 7-month sentence. https://t.co/JY4jNYVpv5

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Feds are seeking a surprisingly short sentence for Ashik Desai, the Outcome Health staffer at the center of the company's fraud who was the government's key witness. https://t.co/ZXyx0qLutT

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‘We can teach them business and finance. We can’t teach them to think.’ CEO Kunal Kapoor talks about @MorningstarInc’s
approach to hiring at @CrainsChicago Best Places to Work event.

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@Propllrhead I was surprised at some of the very tangible ways that quantum will change things for all of us, and some of the companies that already are digging in. https://t.co/FLZivScUtn It's going to be an interesting journey.

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Getting ready for the DNC spotlight on Illinois. @JBPritzker filming a TV ad today in front of Millennium Park, touting the state's successes.

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Failure to launch: Judge addresses length of sentences in the Outcome Health case. https://t.co/3l3g2vcdF1

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Judge in the Outcome Health case offers advice to startup founders and investors: "To anyone listening: Faking it is a crime. It doesn’t matter if you make it. Entrepreneurs have to know when they have access to capital . . . they have to be accountable." https://t.co/O0db4r7aGA

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More than a year after the Outcome Health trial concluded, the judge addressed how he saw the big questions in the case when he sentenced Rishi Shah to 7.5 years in prison. https://t.co/O0db4r7aGA

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Did you know Google’s first million-dollar ad deal was done in Chicago with Orbitz? Early Googler @kwiller shares the tale with ⁦@kirkjim12⁩ at @CrainsChicago’s Fast 50 event.

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The advice Helmut Jahn gave the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architect who led the design of the new concourse connecting to Terminal 1 at O'Hare. https://t.co/aKbn4XZkdD

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@iraweiss @Tesla Crowdsourcing ... A marijuana dispensary owner, who became the first Cybertruck owner in Maine, didn't realize how much attention it would attract. The most common reaction? "The middle finger," he told the Portland Press Herald. "In passing, at red lights, people walking by."

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Amid a looming battle with Colorado for #quantum-computing supremacy, Illinois legislators consider a range of incentives to lure companies here. https://t.co/pyeZbkIgvj

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@AmandaVinicky @fly2ohare @GovPritzker @DemConvention 👍

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.@Rivian's new SUV will roll off the line in Normal, not Georgia. https://t.co/azr6wd05gR

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.@Chase makes huge commitment to Chicago by staying put dowtown and renovating its iconic office tower. Coupled with @Google's plan for the Thompson Center, it's a major win for the city. https://t.co/dkd0h0o2i1

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.@WilsonSportingG made a basketball that doesn't need air. You can have one for $2,500. (No one ever said the latest and greatest comes cheap.) You have to admire Wilson for constantly rethinking its products. Here's what it's doing with the tennis ball. https://t.co/IrIVtEo6ex

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Raise your hand if you saw this coming: @MachinistsUnion wants to organize lab workers at @TempusAI. https://t.co/IkwL1Z6bpY

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Instead of a Walk/Don't Walk sign, there should really be a Dance/Don't Dance sign here at Madison and Halsted.