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Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., center, the wounded partner of Chicago police Officer Ella French who was fatally shot in August during a traffic stop, speaks with members of the press after attending a hearing for the two men charged in his and French’s shooting at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Dec. 2, 2021. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

Corporate travel has been especially hard-hit during the pandemic, as people are quicker to plan vacations than business trips, especially as employers delay reopening offices amid a new wave of infections this fall. The emergence of a new highly transmissible variant, omicron, has added uncertainty about the timing for a broader return to business travel. Just last week, the U.S. imposed new restrictions on travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region.

“We sued them in 2008 for Clean Air Act violations, reached an agreement with them to curb emissions in 2012, and now here we are in 2021 reaching another agreement after they violated the first one,” said Ann Alexander, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Let’s hope this settlement is the end of the matter.”

“We sued them in 2008 for Clean Air Act violations, reached an agreement with them to curb emissions in 2012, and now here we are in 2021 reaching another agreement after they violated the first one,” said Ann Alexander, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Let’s hope this settlement is the end of the matter.”

The latest report includes data from the Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, which is the state’s federally mandated measurement of students’ mastery of the Illinois Learning Standards in English language arts and math in Grades three through eight, and “their readiness for what’s next,” according to ISBE.