Crain's residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin talks with host Amy Guth about local housing news, including how price increases since early 2021 are the biggest in at least 15 years, a response to both demand and the rising costs of supplies and labor.

Plus: City health officials may soon recommend masks indoors as COVID cases continue to rise, Goose Island apartment developer eyes another massive riverfront project, Walgreens names new CMO and Illinois advocacy groups across the spectrum of the abortion divide move quickly to ramp up fundraising and activism.