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Earlier this year, Centene settled a lawsuit over similar allegations with Ohio, for $88.3 million, and settled with Mississippi after an investigation there, for $55.5 million. As part of those settlements, Centene denied any liability related to the allegations. It also set aside another $1.1 billion for future settlements with other states.

The 1,500 seat venue will be a place where concerts, meetings and other events can be held. Stolyar said the initial hotel will be 20 villas, between 1,500 and 2,500 square feet, designed for VIP gamblers from around the Midwest. Nearby hotels will initially provide accommodations until a 200-room hotel is built in phase two.

Sterling Bay, which is developing the $6 billion Lincoln Yards site on Chicago’s North Side, announced Thursday it had closed a $125 million loan to begin construction on ALLY, a 280,000-square-foot life sciences building at the south end of the 53-acre mixed-use development. (Sterling Bay / HANDOUT)

Community activists stand with signs as they listen to Brianna Hampton, Grassroots Collaborative youth leader, along with various community and political leaders, ask that the vote on the Lincoln Yard proposal be delayed by Alderman until the new Chicago Mayor and City Council Members are elected this spring, at City Hall on Feb. 19, 2019 in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

In this Oct. 14, 2020 file photo, United Airlines employees work at ticket counters in Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. United Airlines said Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, only about 300 employees face dismissal for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, about half the number that the airline reported earlier this week. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

SoFi Stadium outside Los Angeles, home to the Rams and Chargers, offers one redevelopment example, though it’s too new to judge its ultimate success. Around the stadium, the 300-acre Hollywood Park is slated to include as much as 5 million square feet of “creative” office space, a retail district as large as 890,000 square feet, a performance venue, a hotel and up to 2,500 homes.

Smith oversaw the opening of the organization’s new $550 million, 1.2-million-square-foot facility in Streeterville in 2017, which replaced the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago building on East Superior Street. With the new facility, the organization was renamed the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. Its leaders described it as a “translational research hospital,” meaning doctors, scientists, innovators, technologists and clinicians work in the same spaces, near patients, translating research into patient care in real time.

Chicago Sun-Times signs are put up during a news conference July 13, 2017, at Answers Media offices in Chicago. An investor group including the Chicago Federation of Labor acquired the Chicago Sun-Times and other Wrapports properties that year after Tribune Publishing was thwarted in its own bid to buy the newspaper by antitrust concerns. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

Former employees and union organizers Maddie Mathie, from left, Grace Vasquez and Sarah Hurd hold “I support Goose Island workers” buttons outside Goose Island’s Fulton Street brewery. Union organizers made 1,000 buttons for supporters that were never used after the effort fizzled out. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)

Newsstand owner Dilip Patel in his store inside the Metra station in downtown Arlington Heights on Sept. 29, 2021. “I only have 20% of the business I had before the pandemic, so the Bears moving here would be very good for me, because people could get on and off the train, and grab something to go,” said Patel. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)