Wintrust Business Lunch 6/26/25: Meta lawsuit, financial freedom survey, Friends of the Chicago River, Wintrust in Lansing

Segment 1: Mike Leonard, Executive Vice President, Wintrust Commercial Banking, joins John Williams to talk about Wintrust’s footprint throughout the area, why it’s important to be embedded in neighborhoods, the importance of community involvement, the pride they take in the work they do, and the passion they have about bettering the communities they are in.

Segment 2: Bree Fowler, Senior Writer, CNET, joins John Williams to talk about a federal judge siding with Facebook parent Meta in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit, the latest on the TikTok ban, legislation being introduced in Congress that would block Chinese artificial intelligence systems from federal agencies,

Segment 3:  Sarah Foster, Economic Analyst, Bankrate, joins John to talk about a new survey that shows more than 1 in 4 Americans feel they need to make $150,000 or more to live comfortably.

Segment 4: Margaret Frisbie, Executive Director, Friends of the Chicago River, talks about what the organization does, their mission to bring the Chicago River system back to life, the restoration programs that the group is involved in, the amount of people that believe the river is part of the community, the quality of the water, and their support of swimming in the Chicago River.