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One day after Secretary of State Jesse White offered his unwavering endorsement to secretary of state candidate City Clerk Anna Valencia, the two sit down at Manny’s Deli to meet and greet other elected officials and guests on Feb. 18. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Cole had fallen asleep on the couch while watching a football game, and when he woke up, he logged onto the internet wanting to know which team had won. While there, he saw a headline about a ticket stub from a 1984 basketball game, which happened to be Michael Jordan’s first in the NBA.
Cole had fallen asleep on the couch while watching a football game, and when he woke up, he logged onto the internet wanting to know which team had won. While there, he saw a headline about a ticket stub from a 1984 basketball game, which happened to be Michael Jordan’s first in the NBA.
A fully electric Chicago Transit Authority bus pulls up to a charging station at Navy Pier on Feb. 22, 2022. A new CTA plan details the agency’s future conversion to all electric buses, including the estimated cost, timeline, and that the agency will focus on equity in converting to electric, prioritizing routes on the South and West sides. CTA currently runs 11 electric buses, all on the #66 Chicago Avenue route. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
After being informed Glenbard West lost on a last-second shot, Rivers, who starred at Proviso East, began to praise the merits of a Chicago prep basketball education. “People don’t realize in Chicago we just play with our local kids,” Rivers said. “We don’t recruit. It’s true.”
The coaching search included ownership, front office staff, nine current players, the team’s three assistant coaches and a sports psychologist. Petrucelli called the interview process “very intensive, very thorough,” while Lynch said the search committee’s decision to hire Petrucelli was “truly a consensus.”
“What we’re looking to do here is have the ability, with a server inside of the auditorium, to deliver directly to the guest at their seat,” said Rob Novak, the vice president of concessions and food & beverage for Marcus Theaters. “Otherwise, the guest is going to have to actually get up, leave the auditorium, go out into the lobby, go up to the bar and order a drink.”
DeVore, 52, of Sorento, a village of 429 people about 50 miles south of Springfield, had previously announced his candidacy for the downstate 5th Appellate Court. But in a Facebook video first reported by the Illinoize political newsletter, DeVore said he had changed his mind and will seek the GOP nomination for attorney general, citing the school mask-mandate court rulings.
People walk by a Macy’s retail location in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Macy’s is reporting strong fourth-quarter sales and profits that exceeded Wall Street estimates even as the department store chain faced numerous challenges from supply chain issues to labor shortages and inflation. (Matt Rourke/AP)
As of Tuesday, the city’s test positivity rate of 1.5%, was in the “low transmission” category, while its rate of occupied hospital and ICU beds was in “lower transmission.” The seven-day rolling average of new daily cases was still at “substantial transmission” at 283 cases, but all those categories were decreasing.