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“Through this long-term partnership with Google Cloud, CME Group will transform derivatives markets through technology, expanding access and creating efficiencies for all market participants,” Terry Duffy, CME’s chair and CEO, said in a news release. “This partnership will enable CME Group to bring new products and services to market faster — all in a flexible and scalable environment that will create a wide range of opportunities for the marketplace.”

“The initial reaction for me was, ‘OK, how am I gonna handle this?’ But then when you get that time to be able to sit back and say, ‘OK where am I?’ I talk about it with the staff and the players: What’s the 30,000-foot view right now? I get to step away from being inside in the trees, step up and go, ‘How’s this going? Where are things?’ And how do I as a leader be able to see where we’re at?”

Chicago women of Czechoslovakia ancestry in native costumes to protest meeting. About 65,000 gathered for the affair on Sept. 25, 1938. “Sixty-five thousand persons gathered in and near the Chicago Stadium yesterday to cheer predictions that Czechoslovakia will not fall victim to Nazi aggression,” wrote the Tribune on Sept. 26, 1938. “The meeting, arranged by several Czecho-slovak societies of Chicago, was preceded by three parades in which several thousand, many in native costumes, participated,” (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

“How dare Michael treat us that way after everything we did for him and his precious brand,” Pippen writes, adding, “To make things worse, Michael received $10 million for his role in the doc while my teammates and I didn’t earn a dime.” (Pippen and several Bulls players appeared on camera for the documentary. It has not been publicly disclosed how much Jordan, whose company Jump 23 was part of the project, made for the series.)

The new 35,000-square-foot Amazon Fresh grocery store opens Thursday in Westmont. It’s Amazon’s fifth in Illinois and the third nationwide to use the “just walk out” technology, which uses cameras and other sensors to track items as customers pick them up and add them to a virtual shopping cart.

In all, more than 100 Watts-related convictions have been tossed out. Attorneys for the accusers have been presenting potentially eligible cases to Cook County prosecutors for their review, and until this year, petitioners’ attorneys and prosecutors had presented a largely united public front. The most recent “mass exoneration,” clearing out nine cases, was in February of this year.