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This isn’t the first time that the forest district has sought to purchase the land. Forest officials targeted the Bolgers’ property for purchase in 1988 and again in 1998. However, then-owners Vincent Bolger, who died in 2008, and Helen Bolger, who died in 2006, weren’t interested in selling or agreeing to a conservation easement that would have prevented them from developing the land.

Statewide, 23,246 new confirmed and probable cases were reported Thursday, bringing the average number of new cases over the past week to 24,674. That’s down nearly 22% from a week earlier, when the state was averaging 31,495 cases per day. The official count does not include results from at-home rapid tests, which aren’t reported to the state.

A hiring sign is placed at a booth for prospective employers during a job fair Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months as the fast-spreading omicron variant disrupted the job market. Jobless claims rose for the third straight week — by 55,000 to 286,000, highest since mid-October, the Labor Department reported Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

A United Airlines jet taxi’s past a construction field near O’Hare’s Modernization Program for 10 Center East End of runway November, at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. The Chicago-based carrier lost $646 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 and said this week that the current spike in COVID-19 cases will hurt its results in the March quarter. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)

Erik Adams, managing editor of the Chicago-based A.V. Club, a sister publication to The Onion, is among seven top editorial staff members leaving the digital publication after refusing a mandatory relocation to Los Angeles by owner G/O. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)

At both the commission meeting and during the council’s Community Development Committee meeting Jan. 3, Andrew Scott, an attorney representing World of Weed, said the dispensary anticipated annual sales between $8 million and $10 million, with taxes to the city between $400,000 and $500,000.

Flora Arbor Group is an established firm with 11 cannabis growing facilities and/or dispensaries in nine states, Latinovic said. It has already obtained a license from the Illinois Department of Agriculture, a prerequisite before it can open in Elgin, he said.

A sign bearing the corporate logo hangs in the window of a Starbucks open only to take-away customers in this photograph taken Monday, April 26, 2021, in southeast Denver. Starbucks is no longer requiring its U.S. workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, reversing a policy it announced earlier this month. The Seattle coffee giant says, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, it’s responding to last week’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. (David Zalubowski/AP)

The workers, who arrived at the hospital Monday, include doctors, pharmacists, nurses, paramedics and other specialists, who are part of a National Disaster Medical System team from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The team will help the Harvey hospital for two weeks, at the state’s request.

He said the “most egregious” example of a popular franchise that Activision, founded in 1979, left by the wayside is Starcraft, last updated in 2015. Others include Guitar Hero, the Tony Hawk skateboarding games and MechWarrior, which McKeon-White said “basically wasn’t touched for two decades.”