Good morning, Chicago.
When New York’s J.P. Morgan Chase announced in January 2004 that it was buying Bank One, formerly the First National Bank of Chicago, there was much civic hand-wringing over the loss of the city’s last hometown banking giant.
This week, employees at Chase Tower celebrated the 20th anniversary of the deal’s closing with a commemorative brochure and free donuts.
While the $58 billion Bank One acquisition moved the headquarters to New York, it also saved potentially thousands of jobs and put Chicago at the center of what would become the nation’s largest bank.
“We ended up being a great bank,” said Jamie Dimon, 68, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and the architect of the merger. ”We delivered to Chicago what we said we would deliver, and we did a good job.”
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Robert Channick.
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In hotly-contested elected school board race, objections filed against more than half of 47 candidates across 10 districts
Challenges to candidates running for a seat on Chicago’s first elected school board were released Tuesday, in which more than half received objections to their nominations.
Of the 47 candidates vying for a school board seat across 10 districts, 27 received objections to their nominations. The 1st district was the only district in which no candidates received objections.
Lawsuit challenges affirmative action in hiring at Northwestern law school
A conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s law school, claiming that its attempts to hire more women and people of color as faculty members violate federal law prohibiting discrimination against race and sex.
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Biden plans public events blitz as White House pushes back on pressure to leave the race
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Activist arrested after confronting Trustee Andrew Holmes at Dolton meeting
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Hezly Rivera planned to spend a significant portion of this summer learning how to drive.
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During the last year of his contract, the front office remained adamant: DeMar DeRozan’s future was in Chicago and the Bulls would do what it took to ensure that stayed true.
Yet barely two days into NBA free agency, the window for DeRozan to remain in Chicago had all but shut.
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