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Tasha Leverette sits for a portrait with a guava green tea lemonade at a Starbucks in Atlanta on June 9, 2021. Her favorite drink is a peach green tea lemonade, but she hasn’t been able to get one due to supply issues. (Johnathon Kelso/The New York Times)

American, Microsoft’s M12, Honeywell, Rolls-Royce and others will take stakes in Vertical through private investment in public equity, or PIPE transactions. Another investor, Irish aircraft leasing company Avolon, said Thursday that it placed a $2 billion conditional order for up to 500 Vertical aircraft.

Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 4900 block of West Wrightwood Avenue about 1:20 a.m. and found the man lying on a porch, unresponsive, according to a police media notification. The man had been shot in the chest and ankle and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The woman also was lying on the porch, with gunshot wounds to the chest and arm, and was taken to Illinois Masonic, where she was initially in serious condition.

The Levi’s x Clarks collaboration, which is part of the Loose Fix collection from Levi’s, celebrates the era by reworking Clarks’ iconic styles in playful, bright colors that will make your summer style pop. The Desert Boots in sky blue suede, the Wallabee in pale pink suede and the cult-classic moccasin, the Weaver, in bright yellow suede all come with matching laces and Clarks’ signature crepe soles.

One key metric: declining hospitalizations. Statewide, the number of people hospitalized each day with COVID-19 has dropped in the past month from nearly 2,000 during a brief third surge to less than 1,000. To put that in context, last fall, the figure peaked at 6,000, and the fear then was that hospitals could become overwhelmed.

Barbara Klipp, of the Midwest Sustainability Project, described the greenway as a scenic sanctuary for creeks, sensitive wetlands, and rare plants and animals. The corridor runs near rookeries for Great Blue Herons, egrets, and even an occasional bald eagle. It would also link communities including Long Grove, Hawthorn Woods, Mundelein and Grayslake, whose mayors support the idea.

In some cases, people might be afraid to get used to things being good again because they fear a return to quarantine, Fisher said. He pointed out the times during the pandemic when restrictions were loosened, only to have positivity rates soar, followed by more constraints. Businesses have reopened and then closed. Schools have gone from in-person classes to remote learning to hybrid models, frustrating the parents and students and educators who had to quickly switch from various formats.

Outside Funeraria Sagrada Familia in Chicago, Leobardo Loza is seen with his nephew and nieces, from left to right, Erick, Ashley and Ruby on May 25, 2021, after the funeral service for the children’s mother, Loza’s sister, Esmeralda De Luna. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

I’ve told him (more than once) that I find “gender confused” a slur against people who understand they are more comfortable expressing themselves as a gender other than their birth-assigned-gender, and he responded (loudly and angrily), “So you’re saying I’m not entitled to my opinion?”

Keuchel got what had the makings of an inning-ending double play in the sixth when Randal Grichuk hit a grounder to third with a runner on first and one out. But instead of throwing to second, Yoán Moncada threw to first. The next batter, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., drove in a run with a single to make it 3-2.