Chip Lupo, writer and analyst for WalletHub, joins Lisa Dent to discuss a WalletHub study that found that Chicago is the city most affected by inflation.

Lisa Dent, along with our newsroom consisting of Kevin Powell, Steve Bertrand, and Mary Van De Velde, covers some of today’s most unusual stories.

Lauran Smith, Founder of Chicago Black Restaurant Week, joins Lisa Dent to discuss Chicago Black Restaurant Week and talk about them celebrating their 10th season!

The associate director of legislative activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Hayley Tsukuyama joins Lisa Dent to discuss to what extent your boss might be spying on you. Tsukuyama recommends not putting private information on company electronics.

The executive director of Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Dr. Patrick McCarthy joins Lisa Dent to share the amazing story of how the institute began and how they are now celebrating 20 years of saving lives.

Chicago Tribune food critic Louisa Chu joins Lisa Dent to share her latest restaurant review. Chu reviews the Mexican seafood restaurant Mariscos San Pedro at the historic Thalia Hall in the Pilsen neighborhood. Chu describes the mouth-watering dishes offered and details their process in making their breakfast tacos.

Lisa checks in with the newsroom to share their stories. Mary shares her What’s With?, Kevin shares an article that says men are more romantic then women, and Steve shares that Gen Z may get more romantic with co-workers than previous generations.

Patrick Dolan, employment lawyer at Conti & Dolan, LLC, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the 75,000 federal workers that are accepting President Trump’s buyout as the offer expires. Those that accepted the buyout make up just over three percent of the federal workforce. The two discuss what might happen for those federal employees that didn’t accept the buyout.

NewsNation reporter Natasha Zouves joins Lisa Dent to talk about the upcoming NewsNation special report, Area 51: Classified Cancer, a story that details Area 51 veterans getting tumors from working around radiation. You see more here and watch her full report this Saturday at 6pm CT on NewsNation.

Lisa checks in with the newsroom to hear their stories. Lauren Lapka, filling in for Steve, shares the wishes of a 104 year old woman who wanted to experience being arrested. Mary gives us the statistics of ‘ghosting’ and where Chicago falls on the list. Then, Kevin shares some of the blockbuster names performing in Ann Arbor at Michigan stadium.