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The former Washington Federal Bank for Savings at 2869 S. Archer Ave. in Chicago in December 2017, when it was shut down after regulators determined it was insolvent and had at least $66 million in bad loans. Royal Bank took over some Washington Federal locations. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)
The resurgence in air travel is being fueled by pent-up demand and the availability of vaccines, along with an apparent lull in virus cases since summer’s big wave. The Transportation Security Administration says that passenger checkpoints are nearly as busy now as they were in 2019, before the pandemic.
Built in 2001, the house has 3½ bathrooms, an open floor plan and a remodeled kitchen with all-new appliances, white cabinets and quartz countertops with an oversized island. The house also has a brand-new primary bathroom, refinished hardwood floors throughout, upgraded lighting, a waterproofed basement with a sump pump, two new furnaces and a finished garage rooftop with a pergola.
FILE – American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, near a terminal at Boston Logan International Airport, in Boston. : American Airlines is dropping some international flights from its plans for next summer because Boeing has failed to deliver planes that the airline ordered. That’s according to a memo that went out Thursday, Dec. 9, to American Airlines employees. (Steven Senne/AP)
FILE – A pressman grabs a freshly printed paper off the press at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s printing facility in Maryland Heights, Mo. in this Nov. 11, 2008 file photo. Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises has rejected a takeover offer from the Alden Global Capital hedge fund that is one of the largest newspaper owners in the country with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs. Lee said Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 that its board unanimously rejected Alden’s offer to buy the company for $24 per share or about $141 million because it “grossly undervalues” Lee. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
CVS Health products are displayed at a store, Monday, May 3, 2021, in North Andover, Mass. CVS Health is hiking its dividend and offering a better-than-expected 2022 revenue forecast as the health care giant prepares to dive deeper into providing more care. (Elise Amendola/AP)
FILE- Richard Bensinger, left, who is advising unionization efforts, along with baristas Casey Moore, right, Brian Murray, second from left, and Jaz Brisack, second from right, discuss their efforts to unionize three Buffalo-area stores, inside the movements headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. The National Labor Relations Board is scheduled to count ballots Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, from union elections held at three separate Starbucks stores in the Buffalo area. Around 111 Starbucks workers from the three stores were eligible to vote by mail starting last month. (Carolyn Thompson/AP)
As the state, like the rest of the nation, continues to recover from a quick but powerful downturn at the start of the pandemic, Chicago — the state’s economic engine — once again plays a role in those higher unemployment numbers as the tourism and the hospitality industry struggle to bounce back, says Dan Black, a labor economist and professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
Unemployment claims dropped by 43,000 to 184,000 last week, the lowest since September 1969, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week moving average, which smooths out week-to-week ups and downs, fell below 219,000, lowest since the pandemic hit the United States hard in March 2020.
“(CTA) was the only major U.S. transit agency that did not reduce or cut back on service throughout the pandemic in order to provide an essential service to those who needed it the most: health care workers, emergency responders, grocery, manufacturing workers, and those needing to make everyday essential trips to the doctor, grocery store, and pharmacy,” CTA officials wrote in a budget recommendation made public in October.