WGN America is changing its name and focus. Chicago’s second-largest hotel, the Palmer House, faces yet another foreclosure lawsuit. And two suburban malls are getting more time to settle up missed mortgage payments, but will the deal help solve their problems or just delay a reckoning? 

Crain’s Chicago Business editor Ann Dwyer takes us behind the headlines.

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