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The project, which will be located at 79th Street, will involve more than just building a new station. The bridge on which Metra’s tracks run will need to be raised to provide Norfolk Southern, which has tracks to go under the bridge, with higher clearance for its freight trains, said Meg Reile, a Metra spokesperson. The station and the raised bridge will be more than 40 feet above street level when complete.
Akyumen Technology CEO Aasim Saied and Gary Mayor Jerome Prince shown after October 2020 news conference announcing a partnership with Akyumen Technology, a state of art technology provider, at the Genesis Center in Gary. (John Smierciak / Post-Tribune)
Google’s office in Chicago is pictured Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. Google said Wednesday it is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and plans to eventually require all employees to be vaccinated. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune / Chicago Tribune)
A hiring sign offering a $500 bonus is posted in front of a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 2021. The fast food giant said Wednesday it plans to open nearly all 14,000 of its U.S. restaurants for indoor dining by Labor Day as hiring challenges ease. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)
Through his Rebuild Foundation, Gates has transformed a number of abandoned buildings in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, beginning with the Stony Island Trust & Savings Bank building, which became the Stony Island Arts Bank, a public arts space and facility at 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue. Rebuild also turned three vacant buildings in the 6900 block of South Dorchester Avenue into a combination of living quarters and art space, while the Dorchester Art+Housing Collaborative grew out of a former public housing project and now serves as housing and work space for artists and community members. The transition of the closed St. Laurence Catholic elementary school building, 1353 E. 72nd St., into an arts incubator, is another Rebuild project.
In August 2020, the agency issued an emergency order for the business to cease operations pending accreditation by the American College of Radiology and certification by the state. Despite that order, the business, under a new name and ownership, continued to perform mammograms, according to the agency, which confirmed that about 100 patients had mammograms between December 2020 and March 2021.
Boeing cut thousands of jobs over the past year and a half as it dealt with the grounding of its 737 Max airliner and the pandemic, which cut airlines’ demand for new planes. Boeing planned to reduce the workforce to 130,000 from 161,000 at the end of 2019. However, CEO David Calhoun said in a memo to employees Wednesday that the company now plans to stop cutting and keep jobs at the current level of about 140,000.
Unsuccessful applications objected and filed suits, claiming the process was unfair, because identical exhibits were scored differently. Wealthy, clouted, white male applicants won a significant portion of perfect scores, instead of the Black and Latino applicants who were meant to get an advantage as “social equity” applicants from areas hurt by the war on drugs.
Steven Dyme, owner of Flowers for Dreams, poses for a portrait at his warehouse Friday, July 23, 2021, in Chicago. Dyme says the $15 minimum made it much easier to staff up when the economy reopened this spring and demand for flowers, particularly for weddings, soared. The company has four locations, including its headquarters in Chicago, one in Milwaukee, and two in Detroit. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)
Barring the closure of the warehouse, protesters demanded Target electrify its truck fleet within the first year of operation there, pay its workers at least $20 to $25 an hour with benefits, as opposed to the current $18 starting wage, and hire 50% of its workers from two ZIP codes that encompass parts of Little Village and other neighborhoods, including Archer Heights, Brighton Park and North Lawndale.