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For more than 30 years, Lasky, who is the chairman and president of Spectrum Real Estate, has developed loft renovation projects in River North and elsewhere. In 2017, he paid $2.787 million for a four-bedroom, 4,300-square-foot condo unit in the former Playboy mansion on the Gold Coast from Marlene Iglitzen, the widow of the late Tribune film critic Gene Siskel. Lasky told Elite Street he plans to sell the Playboy mansion unit.

An Amazon truck drives in Philadelphia on April 30, 2021. Amazon is seeking to hire 75,000 people in a tight job market and is offering bonuses to attract workers, including $100 for new hires who are already vaccinated for COVID-19. (Matt Rourke/AP)

“With regard to the Yankees, we obviously need to learn more about that situation. My understanding is that six of the seven infections were indeed asymptomatic infections and we will look to more data from that report to understand what happened there,” she said in a televised briefing. “All of the real world data we’ve seen that’s been in the published literature, large studies, in many different settings, have demonstrated that those vaccines have a high effectiveness against disease.”

Michael Gonzalez, city spokesman, confirmed Thursday the city recently was struck by a ransomware attack. He declined to comment on when the attack began, how the ransomware was introduced to the system or the exact number of servers and computers impacted, citing the ongoing investigation. Gonzalez said the city has multiple servers and not all were affected.

“Last summer I hiked all the time and had a great time, and I was not afraid of falling to the bottom of the mountain,” she said, laughing, as she recalled writing off her earlier balance problems as clumsiness. For years, she said, she just accepted that, despite all the time she spent practicing, simple yoga poses were beyond her.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks April 21 2021, at the U.S-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona. Ducey on May 13 joined a growing number of Republican governors who are stopping payment of an extra $300 per week in pay for unemployed workers. (Randy Hoeft / AP)

“It’s been nearly a decade since the region’s last significant drought in 2012 brought broiling temperatures, withered vegetation and parched, cracked soil. Chicago’s precipitation for all of 2012 totaled just 26.91 inches, and the area was locked in moderate to severe drought much of the summer and fall. The warm dry pattern began with a remarkable March 2012 that featured eight days in the 80s, followed by a very hot summer with 46 days of 90-degree plus heat that included four days with triple-digit highs. The drought quickly vanished in 2013, which logged more rain through June 30 (28.46 inches) than fell in all of 2012.” Tom Skilling, WGN-TV chief meteorologist

Jahn, 81, was riding his bicycle northeast on Old Lafox Road, approaching a T-shaped intersection with Burlington Road, about 3:30 p.m. Saturday and “failed to stop at the posted stop sign,” Campton Hills police said in a news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A fuel tanker driver delivers a 9,000-gallon load of fuel May 13, 2021, at the Sheetz in Raleigh, North Carolina. Operators of the Colonial Pipeline say they began the process of moving fuel through the pipeline again on May 12, six days after it was shut down because of a cyberattack. (Travis Long/AP)

“One of (the short-term goals) was to have command of the huddle,” DeFilippo said. “Show the other 10 guys in that huddle that you have some command and you’ve been working your butt off on the plays, knowing the cadence, knowing where to go with the football. It’s not going to be a very in-depth installation in terms of the amount of plays, amount of formations, shifts and motions and that sort of thing, but I want to see him (show) those building blocks of becoming a starting quarterback in the league.”