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Just a day before the lottery, though, a judge ordered that the licenses can’t be awarded until he rules on a lawsuit challenging the process. Cook County Judge Moshe Jacobius allowed the state to hold the lottery, which allows winning applicants to start proceeding with business plans, but the licenses may not yet formally be awarded.
“This will always be home for me,” Rizzo said. “My best friend in the game, Jon Lester, did the same thing, and said he has two special places in his heart. For these next three months it’s going to be fun to be back in a race. Seeing the Yankees pull the trigger like this, get Gallo and me now, obviously. That’s what they do, and it’s very exciting.”
The Office of Labor Standards, which was created in 2019 to enforce the city’s minimum wage, paid sick time and anti-wage theft laws, recently completed an investigation into Tri City Foods, a Downers Grove-based company that bills itself as the second-largest franchisee in the Burger King restaurant chain. Alerted by an employee, investigators found that Tri City Foods allegedly failed to grant paid sick leave to 2,473 employees at 40 Burger King locations in Chicago between July 2017 and November 2020, the city said.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, center appointed Miguel del Valle, left, as her Board of Education president as one of her first acts in office. She opposes a bill, signed into law Thursday, to create an elected school board for Chicago. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Statewide, 27,155 vaccine doses were administered Tuesday, the most in a single day since July 2. But over the past week, the state is averaging just 17,982 doses per day, with nearly 44% of the eligible population still unvaccinated. During the week ending July 1, the state average was 41,150 doses per day.
“It’s been awesome,” Tepera said of his time with the Cubs. “A good group of guys, just talking to (manager David Ross), it was about a year ago, he sent me down opening day. I told him straight up Ill be back and I’m gonna be your set-up guy. Enjoyed my time here it was awesome. Looking forward to the next adventure.”
“We’ve got other guys on the roster — (Riley) Ridley and (Javon) Wims,” Nagy said. “I thought Ridley put together great OTAs. Was excited to see him do that. And now, a lot of these guys, when you get to this wide receiver position, right, this is where a lot of these guys that fourth, fifth, sixth guy, they have to shine on special teams. That’s going to be my challenge and coach (Chris) Tabor’s challenge to these guys is that fifth spot is going to be real with special teams.”
Thomas Summerwill, 23, of the 40W block of Willowbrook Drive, was sentenced to four years on probation, 200 hours of community service and will have to wear an alcohol monitor for up to a year, according to the plea deal accepted by Judge Salvator LoPiccolo.
We’ll be at Lollapalooza all weekend long, from the scrum at the entry gates to checking out the vendors to being your eyes and ears at all seven stages. Chicago’s biggest live music event is back for 2021, open and running through Sunday. Tweets from Thursday:
A: Well, I think that Robinhood has become synonymous with retail investing and the individual investor in America, and with that comes good things and the downsides of it as well. You hear “Robinhood investors,” and that’s kind of become the new term for retail investors. So I think it’s a positive thing, that helps get the brand out there. But whenever there’s criticism for the industry, since we represent it, we to some degree have to answer to it.