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Blagojevich said that since his release from a federal prison camp in Littleton, Colorado, he’s been keeping busy jogging, doing consulting work and giving paid speeches. He’s found a “surprisingly lucrative” side gig making videos on Cameo, a website where users pay for personalized video messages from celebrities, and has also hosted a weekly podcast called “The Lightning Rod” for WLS-AM radio.
Pritzker less than two weeks ago said that he and his wife, M.K., planned to attend the massive festival, which drew roughly 100,000 concertgoers per day to Chicago’s Grant Park. “I think it’s OK, but again, people need to be aware that we are not past this pandemic. It is with us,” he said at the time.
“We wanted to find some stability day in, day out for the lineup in that second base position,” Sox general manager Rick Hahn said Friday. “César provides us with someone who not only obviously comes to us with a Gold Glove resumé and has found a nice power stroke over the course of this season, but as a switch hitter, provides a professional at-bat to go with the solid defense.”
Posting to the video sharing app has become a frequent activity for many Olympians and has given users around the world an inside look at the Olympic Village, interactions between the athletes and answers to some of the Games most pressing questions (how comfortable are those cardboard beds, really?).
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games take place between July 23 and August 8 in and around Tokyo, Japan. With 33 sports at 339 events across 42 venues, the Games are documented by hundreds of photographers from around the world, including Chicago Tribune’s Brian Cassella. Here are some of the best images from this year’s Olympics to date.
Dr. Kiran Joshi, senior medical officer and co-lead of the county health department, said Monday officials “continue to see low vaccine uptake in several communities and are aggressively employing tactics to educate people, to answer questions, to combat misinformation and to remove barriers to care throughout Cook County.”
Travelers are lining up at O’Hare airport in Chicago, Friday, July 2, 2021. The U.S. set another pandemic-era record for travel on Sunday, Aug. 1, with more than 2.2 million people going through airport checkpoints. That’s the biggest number in 17 months, although travel is still not quite back to pre-pandemic levels. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
She missed her second and third lifts, both at 125 kilograms. On the second one, she brought the barbell above her head, but the lift was disqualified because she did not keep her arms completely straight. After her third miss, she pounded her heart, lifted her hands in the air, took a bow and walked offstage.
Buona Beef, the 40-year-old Berwyn-based chain, reconsidered its cannabis policy “shortly after” Illinois approved recreational marijuana use last year, co-owner Joe Buonavolanto said. Buona still prohibits getting high on the job, and reserves the right to do random drug testing for employees. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)