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“(When Contreras plays) you have a guy back there who has navigated through the (Pirates) lineup, seen what they’ve hit, seen the mistakes, where you want to go,” Ross said before the game. “There’s just so much feel involved, as well as the scouting report, that you miss when your starting guy is out. Not to mention on the offensive side for Willson.

One late amendment to the bill was to allow social equity applicants, meant to apply primarily to minority investors, to open a new shop within 1,500 feet of an existing shop. That change was meant to allow new businesses to compete with established stores that already locked in prime locations, such as Chicago’s River North and Wrigleyville areas. Sponsors said only one new store is allowed in a 1,500-foot radius, to prevent a cluster of such shops.

The union has more than 150,000 Illinois members and its Local 73 represents 2,600 workers in the secretary of state’s office, more than half the office’s employees, he said. Tom Balanoff, president of SEIU Local 1, said Giannoulias “understands what critical issues are most important to the hardworking families across our state.” Full story here.

“I hear from women working late hours in the hospitality industry, who can no longer afford a safe car trip home from work late at night,” he said. “Instead, they are forced to risk their personal safety using the CTA system. This wasn’t a problem before the obliteration of the taxicab industry.”

Editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin, whose bedraggled “Willie and Joe” characters famously represented the lowly “dogface” foot soldiers of World War II, won two Pulitzer Prizes, the…

At the start of the 2019-2020 school year, 295 CPS school buildings, out of 642 total, were accessible to students and staff with mobility disabilities, according to an August 2020 report by Access Living, a disability rights advocacy group. The majority of accessible schools are high schools, Access Living found, and a significant number of CPS schools, mostly charter and option schools, are not rated for accessibility.