What it means: Roethlisberger agreed to lower his pay to $14 million from $19 million in a restructured contract, according to multiple reports, helping the Steelers save about $15 million in salary-cap space. The agreement means Roethlisberger, 39, will return for his 18th season with the team. Coming off an elbow injury in 2019, he threw for 3,803 yards with 33 touchdowns, 10 interceptions and a 94.1 passer rating in 15 games in 2020.

Through February, the state generated nearly $170 million in recreational sales, more than double the total from the first two months of 2020, according to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which licenses marijuana dispensaries.

The pandemic forced most of Special Olympics Chicago’s programming to be canceled or held remotely. Daley said athletes stayed in touch through online pizza parties, Bingo nights and cooking events. As COVID-19 restrictions have begun to ease, she said, the Chicago Park District has been holding a few small, outdoor events for the athletes — fishing, archery, snowshoeing.

Police say Rodas Perez, 52, and his wife, 49, were shot to death in the garage of their home in the 10000 block of West Wadsworth Road on the night of Dec. 8. After a five-week investigation, police arrested Triplett, who has a record of felony arrests and convictions for car thefts and car jackings, including an incident where a woman was shot in the leg.

After a cooler end to the week with highs in the 40s, temperatures are set to rise beginning Sunday, with a high in the 50s, according to the National Weather Service. Things are expected to stay on the warm side through Wednesday with highs in the upper 50s, said Rafal Ogorek, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Chicago office.

The union, which represents 167 teachers, speech pathologists, psychologists and social workers, and which began contract negotiations with the school board in March 2020, has been working without a contract and has been since the beginning of the school year, Lundmark said.

“I very much feel as a physician, as a leader, we have to be vaccine ambassadors and educate the public,” said Feinberg, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern’s medical school. “We need to really dispel a lot of anti-vaccine propaganda out there.”

The warning from Dr. Allison Arwady comes despite Chicago earlier in the week hitting its lowest seven-day positivity rate since the start of the pandemic and once again expanding indoor dining, with hope of more reopening moves to come. Still, that progress could vanish should revelers on March 17 shirk social distancing guidelines from public health officials, she said.

“This will allow time to focus on negotiating a balanced settlement to the disputes, and begin seriously addressing the challenges posed by new entrants to the civil aviation market from non-market economies, such as China,” the joint statement said.

The record-low lending rates have helped push buyers into the housing market, which remains one of the stronger sectors of the U.S. economy. But the lack of supply of homes, which was pushing up prices even before the pandemic struck last March, has left many prospective buyers empty-handed.