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Susan Edwards, Blythe’s mother, said they arrived a few minutes before the 6:46 a.m. scheduled pickup time on Monday and Tuesday only to later learn the bus actually departed at 6:15 a.m. The headaches stretched into the afternoon, Edwards said, with the bus dropping Blythe off more than an hour after dismissal from her school, Galileo Scholastic Academy of Math & Science.

At least two economy lots remain inaccessible to travelers. Lot E is closed. Lot H was converted to paid employee parking in 2019, and though some employees were temporarily able to park closer to the terminals last year as part of “pandemic mitigation efforts,” they have since returned to other lots, including Lot H, Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Christine Carrino said in an email.

File: Walgreens at Randolph and State streets. The Deerfield-based pharmacy chain announced this week it will hike starting pay to $15 an hour beginning in October as employers across the United States continue boosting wages to attract workers. The drugstore chain said Tuesday that the wage hike will be phased in and be completed by November 2022. (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune)

Houston, Texas-based Sysco sells and distributes food products to businesses such as restaurants, schools and health care facilities. The company has more than 58,000 employees at 343 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 650,000 customer locations, according to its website.

Two patients have filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against DuPage Medical Group just days after the physicians’ group said it was notifying 600,000 patients that their personal information may have been compromised during a July cyberattack. (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

“I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life relaxing pretty much, and I do, but this is picking up more for us. I had a very structured week where Monday I worked the food bank at the senior center, Tuesday and Friday I did yoga for an hour and a half, Wednesday I was on the front desk at the senior center. I was just sort of floating by, not being social, not putting myself out there in the gay community. And boy, has the Old Gays changed that,” Martin said.

“The pandemic was a big shock to the economy, and the effects of that shock are going to last across time,” Braun said. “Think of it like throwing a stone into a pond, it generates waves and the wave slowly dies down,” “You had this big shock to the economy and it’s just taking time for everything to readjust fundamentally.”

Jody Dabrowski, chief executive officer of the Illinois Educators Credit Union, said that many homeowners used COVID-19 stimulus money to both pay down debt and to build up emergency funds. Both moves position homeowners to avoid home equity loans, especially for moderate home repairs and minor emergencies, such as replacing a broken major appliance, she said. The two things the credit union’s members will borrow against their houses for, said Dabrowski, are home improvement and education.

Southern Illinois Healthcare, which has two of the largest hospitals in the region, in Carbondale and Herrin, had filled its 29 ICU beds at those hospitals Wednesday, said Jennifer Harre, chief nursing officer. In fact, the two hospitals had 30 ICU patients, meaning that some were receiving ICU care in other parts of the hospital, she said.

The 39-16 vote to pass the proposal, which aims to put the state on a path to 100% carbon-free power by 2050, was lauded by Senate Democrats. But the plan’s future is uncertain in the Democratic-controlled House, which adjourned its one-day session before the Senate vote. And Pritzker has demanded changes before he’ll sign it into law.