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“To open at home against a Big Ten West opponent, that needs to mean something for us,” Bielema said. “The best way we can have an advantage here at Memorial Stadium is to have a packed house. I get people all the time, ‘Hey, Bret, what can we do?’ You know (what)? You can get in the stands and we can give you something when you’re sitting in the stands that you’re happy to see.”

Leaders of the G7 pose for a group photo on overlooking the beach at the Carbis Bay Hotel in Carbis Bay, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Friday, June 11, 2021. Leaders from left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

“I think when people see that the downtown is fully reopened, and I’m seeing it now, there’s an uptick in the number of people taking the trains now, traffic is definitely back up. I think there’s a real hunger to be back together,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on WGN-TV. “Just as we’re seeing people really excited to be in restaurants, music venues, and just outdoors, we’re going to see people wanting to come back downtown to work.”

Rizzo sprayed 10 fouls balls into the Wrigley Field stands to stay alive, working to a 2-2 count after quickly picking up two strikes. Rizzo finally bested Ponce de Leon on the 14th pitch from the right-hander — a 96-mph fastball — rocketing the ball into the right-field bleachers. Rizzo’s game-tying homer in the sixth inning set off the 35,112 fans in a rocking Wrigley.

“The three iconic Chicago players, obviously, there’s going to be a lot of competition for their services in the market, so of course in theory you’d love to have those players back and sometimes they’re hard decisions that a team has to make,” Hoyer said. “I’m not going to shut the door on anything, but I do feel like there has to be some awareness of what it would take financially and what that would mean over the next five years and what that would mean to the rest of the team.”

“Unfortunately, the draft legislation continues key formula rate policies that guarantee ComEd’s profits, while also increasing their profit levels,” Abe Scarr, director of the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, a consumer watchdog, said in a statement. “We will be releasing more analysis soon, and urge the governor and legislative leaders to remove policies that guarantee utility profits from the final bill.”