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State legislators approved sportsbooks at big professional stadiums, but Chicago has to lift its ban on sports betting and approve licensing to allow it to move forward and regulate the number of betting kiosks and hours of operation. Burnett’s ordinance would allow sportsbooks at Soldier Field, Wrigley Field, Guaranteed Rate Field, the United Center and Wintrust Arena.
After arriving at O’Hare International Airport from Germany, Yerin Hong is greeted by her boyfriend, Soon Kim, with flowers on Nov. 8, 2021. The U.S. lifted the pandemic travel ban for vaccinated international travelers. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
When the pandemic recession struck in March 2020, women, who were more likely to hold frontline jobs in health care, at grocery stores and in other public-facing industries, suffered greater job losses than men, the reverse of what happens in most recessions, Powell noted. In April 2020, the unemployment rate for women was 16.1%, much higher than 13.6% for men, though the rates are now nearly equal.
FILE – The Boeing Company logo is seen on the property in El Segundo, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Insurers for several current and former Boeing board members will pay more than $230 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the directors of failing to address safety warning signs before two of the company’s Max jetliners crashed. (Reed Saxon/AP)
A Republican, Biggert, 84, was a member of the Illinois House before serving in Congress from 1999 until losing re-election in 2012. In Hinsdale, Biggert and her husband Rody, who died in 2018, paid $625,000 in 2016 for the town home, which is in the Ruth Lake Woods development.
Virgin Atlantic flight VS3, front, and British Airways flight BA001 perform a synchronised departure on parallel runways at London Heathrow Airport, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 heading for New York JFK to celebrate the reopening of the transatlantic travel corridor, more than 600 days since the US travel ban was introduced due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Anthony Upton/AP)
FILE – A man pumps gas at a Mobil gas station on Western Avenue in Chicago on, Jan. 4, 2017. The price at the pump is $1.30 higher than a year ago. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday the rise comes as the cost of crude oil and ethanol surges. Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $4.77 per gallon. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
In Lake Bluff, Castillo’s new eight-room house was built in 1986 and has 3-1/2 bathrooms, a vaulted family room with a gas fireplace, a first-floor primary bedroom suite with a large walk-in closet, a brand-new first-floor laundry room and a kitchen with an island and an oversized breakfast bar. The house, which also has a mudroom with a dog shower, a deep pour unfinished basement and a large deck, sits on a 0.47-acre lot.
The seldom-used, 50-year-old Lakeside Center has 583,00 square feet of exhibit space, but is dwarfed by the newer McCormick Place West Building, which opened in 2007. It is adjacent to an abundance of hotel rooms, has lakefront vistas, is designed for high-traffic events and in a post-COVID-19 world, could help draw conventions and conventioneers to roll the dice on Chicago, Goodman said.
Both the infrastructure proposal, which also includes expansion of broadband to rural areas, and the pandemic recovery package “represent a historic investment in America, in the American workforce, in American infrastructure and will make the biggest investments ever in climate and clean tech innovation,” she said.