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Boeing 737 Max airplanes for airlines around the world sit parked in a storage lot April 26, 2021, near Boeing Field in Seattle. The aircraft model was grounded around the world after two deadly crashes, though it has since returned to the skies after Boeing implemented regulator-approved changes. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

“It is safe to say that the company is very pleased with the results and they’re on board,” Parkins said. “We all agreed to take a week or so to just let it marinate and sizzle and we’ll debrief what we did right, what we did wrong, But yeah, it’s safe to say The Score and Audacy are on board for ‘What About Chicago 2.’”

Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder said the aesthetic, user-friendly improvements reflect CEO Satya Nadella’s promise to build products that people will “love,” not tolerate, though Gownder questioned whether Windows 11 is truly a new generation of software. The fact that it is built on the same core code base as Windows 10 might actually be a good thing, he added, because it could avoid the technical glitches that plagued the release of Windows Vista in 2007.

Still, he said, steadier rain is best for getting out of a drought, as opposed to heavy rain like the kind expected this weekend. The metro area’s drought had been steadily getting worse since April until last week, he said, when the area started experiencing some improvement with precipitation. Areas closer to the Wisconsin border are experiencing an extreme drought, while the southern part of the metro area is not experiencing a drought, he said.

Google’s decision to move its Chicago offices from River North in late 2015 and create an expanded Midwest operation there is seen as one of the biggest factors in property values that soared in the years to follow. Google now leases about 386,000 square feet in the building and about 500,000 square feet total in Fulton Market. The company has more than 1,300 employees in Chicago.