lemonis: ...a small catering business serving the chicagoland area.ad: a package of mushroom and a broccoli. this is gonna be for "soundstage." lemonis: although tad had zero formal training, his excellent food and attentive service soon put him on the map. tad: it's smelling great in here! lemonis: over time, the company grew to 12 employees... tad: whoo, hot! lemonis: ...and every year brought more business than the last, until now. tad: holy crap. and then we're left with nothing. lemonis: a sharp drop in bookings this year has tad in a panic... tad: andy! lemonis: ...and his team unsure of their future. tad: ah. i think you need to reach out to the other customer and see if -- if that is for sure or not. lemonis: because of my fast-growing food company, i wanted to expand into the world of catering, and honest foods has one of the best reputations here in my hometown of chicago. if i can get them back on the path to growth, i honestly think the sky is the limit. tad: okay, we have 30 minutes. jennifer: yeah, we're crunched. tad: it's tight in here

lemonis: all in the chicagoland area? -giovanni: yeah, oh, yeah.monis: and so all the stores -make money today? -lisa: no. lemonis: does this location make money? giovanni: oh, my god. this fuels all the growth. lisa: this is our best location. lemonis: what is the goal for you? lisa: we want to scale it. we want to kind of conquer the chicagoland area. we also have talked about acquisition. we did a mini-acquisition already with rogers park. so that was an existing store that was failing, and we went in and purchased it. giovanni: and i have been calling stores to see if they'd be interested in selling. i go get the deals and then go, "hey, we'll figure out how to pay for it afterwards." lemonis: so you're in charge of mergers and acquisitions? [ both laugh ] giovanni: with no money. lemonis: it seems odd to me that they're acquiring anything. what they should be acquiring is a leadership process. they should probably worry about home base first. -giovanni: hey, bud! -lisa: oh, that's our son. do you want to say "hey to marcus"?! lemonis: and what

pleasure -- it now gives me a real pleasure to introduce someone who has represented chicago and the chicagoland area for a number of years, someone who also gets it when it comes to the issues that most concern the blue collar caucus, and then specifically what we're addressing tonight in the special order, the need to reinvest in our nation's infrastructure and put people back to work. i yield to the gentleman from illinois, mr. lipinski. mr. lipinski: thank you, mr. boyle. i want to say, first of all, it's an honor to follow mr. norcross, as mr. boyle said, one of the very few in this body who's an actual member of the building trade. i didn't intend to talk about this originally, but i want to say, it's very important that give us in this nation more respect to the building construction trades and all the men and women in the trades who have built this nation. these are great jobs, provide a good living for families, and they're building our nation. we need to encourage more young people to go into the building construction trades. i used to teach college. i was a college professor. but i kn

originally from the chicagoland area, and as a graduate of north -- northern illinois university, n.i.u., and she started as a staff assistant in 2003 and worked her way up through the ranks, as i said, becoming a legislative director in 2011. and then served as deputy chief of staff from 2013 until she left recently in march. she focused on telecommunications, as her expertise, and we primarily in the office dealt with 9-1-1 issues, especially next generation act. she also spearheaded the next generation 9-1-1 caucus in my office. she's married to bob. has two children. and we already miss her activity and work in the office and we pass on best wishes. next, mr. chris, who has a 14-year career on capitol hill. this is his 10th year with me. i think it's uncommon in many offices for people to stay that long. i think that's a tribute to my chief of staff, craig roberts, and the fact that i don't meddle too much in their personal, how they manage their office and get their job done. chris has served 10 years with me. in addition to handling health care and energy policies in my office, ch

we call it the mike ditka form in the chicagoland area. number one isn't important, it's all that's important. thank you, tim. john, back to you. >> nothing like a quote from ditka. straight ahead, shares of square hitting an all-time high. much more when "squawk alley" returns. for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ >>> take a look at oil today. it closed at the lows of the session, 45.80 is now the latest since late november. that's closing in on a 4.5% loss today. a lot more on that in a few moments. >>> welcome back. square out with earnings. a dramatic move up in the stock, up nearly 10% on what's been a good week for jack dorsey. >> a very nice week indeed. square up nearly 50% this year

million in over $114 damage to chicagoland area and a cost ratio of 2.96, which is a very high score for an army corps project. orps willpledge the c work closely with us to complete the project on schedule including fiscal year 2017 funding so we can avoid the type of damages we have suffered over the last three declarations? >> we see great merit in this. this is a life safety issue, a flood risk management project. clearly the majority of that first half is done and works very well. we will continue to champion that reservoir to get appropriate funding. >> thank you. i recognize there may be other agencies pressuring you to abandon this project. i want to make it clear it is unacceptable to leave my constituents at risk, especially when we're so close to finishing. stage two started securing funding over 10 years ago and we're just finishing. >> we don't see any significant other challenges with other agencies. we feel very firm that is a very smart project to finish. >> good news. thank you. when it comes to combating invasive species threatening the great lakes come illinois may

reservoir is approximately 91% complete, it prevents over $114 million in annual damages to the chicagoland area and carries a benefit to cost ratio of 2.96 which is a very high score for an army corps project. will you pledge that the core will work closely with my office and the illinois delegation to complete the project on schedule including fiscal year 17 funding so we can avoid the type of damage we have suffered over the last three disaster declarations? >> we see great merit in this. this is a life safety issue, this is a flood risk management project, clearly the majority of that first half works very well, we will continue to champion the reservoir to get appropriate funding. >> there may be other agencies, as it approaches the finish line. and leaving constituents at risk when we are so close to finishing stage 2, funding over twee 10 years ago and asking to finish the job. >> we don't see any significant other challenges, we feel very firm that that is a smart project to finish. >> thank you. general, when it comes to combating invasive species flooding the great lakes, illinois