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Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office said last week that more than 2,200 locations and providers statewide had signed up to offer the shots to children ages 5 to 11, including more than 700 pediatric and family practices, more than 700 pharmacy locations, about 100 urgent care locations, 112 local health departments and public health clinics, among others.
Since then, the statewide weekly case rate per 100,000 residents has dropped notably, but is still not below the CDC’s “high” spread category, or even below the rate defined for “substantial” spread. And in the past two weeks, the statewide rate has risen slightly, from roughly 129 to 136.
The texts were released through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Michael Kessler, a Vancouver man requesting records as part of an inquiry into a Portland, Oregon, police matter, working with Lucy Parsons Labs, a nonprofit transparency organization. An image of the portion of the FOIA records including Kempczinski’s texts was shared on Twitter.
The agreement will split, 50-50, sales tax revenue generated by the business, with Chuck Lager receiving a maximum of $500,000. The term of the agreement is for 10 years, but the dollar amount rebated to the business could be reached sooner than that.
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“This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta. “More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized, and its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.”
After years of construction delays, the “people mover” at O’Hare International Airport will reopen Wednesday on a limited schedule. The automated train, officially called the Airport Transit System, will operate between 10:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. to start. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Fans in Section 330 watch the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Oct. 31, 2021. The Bears sold 26,000 permanent seat licenses, or PSLs, priced between $765 and $10,000 each, to help fund the 2003 renovation of Soldier Field. While many of those seats have changed hands in the secondary market, thousands of PSL owners now face the prospect of their investments expiring worthless if the team packs up for a new stadium in Arlington Heights. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Rivian has generated significant buzz with its inaugural models, which feature 300-plus miles of range, go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds and start at $73,000 for the R1T truck and $75,500 for the R1S SUV, offset by a $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles. The first trucks rolled off the line in September, while the SUV is expected to launch in December, according to the IPO filing.
FILE – Trader Vincent Napolitano, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in this Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, file photo. Stocks closed with modest gains on Wall Street Monday, extending the major indexes’ recent record-setting run. (Richard Drew/AP)