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About 58% of applicants were approved in the first round, and the agency expects to approve more of the applications in this second round, Faust said. Many of those denied did not meet the requirement that they were behind on rent, or indicated they had not lost income because of COVID-19, according to the agency. In this round a process to review and catch application mistakes is built in, and more funding is available.

After the resolution clears the Forest Preserve board’s finance committee, it will go to a full floor vote sometime next month before another round of votes in December that would finalize the language, Suffredin said. He said the money should be used to acquire and restore land, improve programming for the community, address the backlog of maintenance needs, support the Brookfield Zoo and Chicago Botanic Garden and, perhaps most importantly, help close the funding gap for the district’s pension shortfall.

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is seen May 5, 2019, in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett, 90, is stepping down as trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as he exits all other corporate boards. He said while he still loves his job, “I’m clearly playing in a game that, for me, has moved past the fourth quarter and into overtime.” (Nati Harnik/AP)

The 18-month effort, funded by the Joyce Foundation, will focus on the state’s flagship public university, where just under 6% of students are Black, 11% are Latino and well under 1% identify as Native American or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, under-representations of the state’s population, according to school data. The largest demographic groups are white students at 41% and Asian American students at 16%.