Today on Crain’s Daily Gist, host Amy Guth talks with Crain’s Chicago Business residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin about this week’s adventures in the local housing market. Plus: Lightfoot opposes an expanded food and drink tax to fund the McCormick Place revamp, marijuana legalization approaches its final hurdle in Springfield, China puts U.S. soy purchases on hold as the tariff war escalates, weather chaos is expected to leave record corn acres unplanted, Lefkofsky raises another $200 million for Tempus and a lawsuit on office tenant labor rules moves ahead. Continue the conversation with #CrainsDailyGist.