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“Businesses are in a unique position to help change the direction of the pandemic, and we encourage businesses of all sizes and industries to require vaccinations so we can protect ourselves, those around us, and continue on our path to economic recovery,” said Jack Lavin, president and CEO of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.
Normally, Illinois residents have only from Nov. 1 through mid-December to select health insurance plans on the exchange at healthcare.gov, unless they have a major life event, such as a marriage, having a child, or losing their health insurance coverage. But this year, President Joe Biden’s administration opened a special enrollment window, for anyone, aimed at helping people get health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward adds his signature to a beam on Aug. 11, 2021, at the future site of a 10-acre sports, education and health campus in the 1800 block of North Laramie Avenue that will include a 120,000-square-foot indoor sports facility. The facility will host youth sports, tournaments, soccer programing and basketball. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Amtrak has also restored pay protection for fully vaccinated employees who might need to quarantine after testing positive for a breakthrough case of the virus, according to the memo. Unvaccinated employees required to quarantine because they are close contacts with someone who has contracted the virus can receive excused absences, but their pay will not be protected.
“If they go into communities and launch their own businesses and can employ people, it’s an amplifier effect,” she said. “That’s the piece that got us in, what the business enables in the lives of others. When Cara and I are going to a company picnic and someone says: ‘I’m able to send my kid to school for four years, we can pay the tuition’ or ‘I just bought my new house.’ At the end of the day, yes, the products are cool, and the legacy story is cool, but how it makes a difference in the lives of our community, our people, and the organizations we are able to support — that’s what makes it all worth it.” Or as Hughes phrases it: “What we do well, allows us to do good.”
This March 21, 2021 photo shows a leasing sing is displayed outside of residential building in Des Plaines, Ill. Things are looking up for owners of big apartment communities more than a year after the pandemic knocked the economy into a recession and left millions of Americans unemployed. Rents are rising amid strong demand as U.S. home prices push ever higher. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
In this photo provided by Jason Adam Photography, Shari DiBrito, the New Jersey regional director for the nonprofit Lasagna Love, holds a lasagna on May 1, 2021, at her niece’s house in Wayne, N.J. The grassroots nonprofit organization offering Americans free lasagnas recently surpassed its 100,000 lasagna delivery mark. Lasagna Love has been sharing the meals with Americans struggling with financial and other challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Jason Adam Photography via AP) (AP)
On July 30, JG IL LLC, Emerald Coast LLC, and Renu LLC, represented by the firm of civil rights attorney Jon Loevy, a founder of licensed cannabis grower Justice Grown, filed a federal lawsuit alleging scoring screw-ups, and asking the court to order them to be included in the lotteries.
A dealer conducts a game of roulette on June 28, 2021, at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Figures released Tuesday, Aug. 10 by the American Gaming Association show the nation’s commercial casinos had their best second quarter in history, with $13.6 billion in revenue, and are on pace to have their best year ever in 2021 as gamblers return to in-person casinos. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) (Wayne Parry/AP)
Mitch comes to Chicago from Charleston, South Carolina, where he has been the executive editor of The Post and Courier since 2013. In this time, Mitch led the team to a 2015 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service and the paper has been a finalist in four other Pulitzer categories including breaking news, local reporting, feature photography, and feature writing. Under Mitch, the paper also earned a James Beard Award for its food content and a Gerald Loeb Award for its business content. In addition to running The Post and Courier newsroom, Mitch headed up the digital subscription team.