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Brad Young, who is the chairman and co-founder of the Rockit Ranch Productions restaurant and nightclub group, sold his seven-bedroom, 9,600-square-foot mansion in Winnetka for just under $6 million Monday. – Original Credit: (Bob Goldsborough / HANDOUT)
The Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday gave preliminary zoning approval to a proposed $60 million film production facility in the South Shore area of the city’s South Side. The $60 million project is called Regal Mile Studios. – Original Credit: BauerLatoza Studio (HANDOUT)
It’s important to get a new version of the ordinance in place quickly to require banks that acquire rental properties to offer renters either a lease to stay or moving assistance, Housing Department policy director Daniel Hertz said, noting foreclosures could again spike as the financial impact of COVID-19 hits renters harder in coming months.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and most experts are not recommending that people who received Johnson & Johnson vaccines, or any other vaccine, get booster shots. Still, a number of individuals who got Johnson & Johnson shots are starting to wonder if a booster might be a good idea, given the rapid spread of the delta variant, a handful of experts who’ve publicly recommended it and what they’re seeing in other countries.
A photographer moves up close to photograph Jeep vehicles during a media preview for the special edition Chicago Auto Show inside McCormick Place on July 14, 2021. Postponed this winter by COVID-19, the Chicago Auto Show will hold a special Sumer edition July 15-19 with an indoor/outdoor show at McCormick Place. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Mustard and hot dogs just seem to go together — but which mustard? There are so many. The National Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wis., has 5,975 mustards in its collection — and sells more than 450 of them. But then there are a lot of dogs out there waiting to be slathered with mustard. Americans will eat 150 million hot dots on July Fourth alone, according to an estimate by the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, a Washington, D.C.-based industry group. Twelve mustards were put to a blind comparison, starting with yellow mustard, the traditional go-to for hot dogs. Then we added brown, Dijon and deli mustards because they represent popular varieties. This was a blind tasting, meaning those who took part didn’t know which mustard was which. Each taster was asked to sample and rate each mustard on its own, assessing appearance, aroma, texture and flavor. They were then asked to rate the mustards with a hot dog. We used a top-selling national brand, Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners, made with chicken, turkey and pork.
FILE – A Delta Airlines aircraft makes its approach at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, in this Monday, June 24, 2019, file photo. Delta Air Lines reported its first quarterly profit since the pandemic devastated the airline industry more than a year ago, as hordes of vacation travelers and money from U.S. taxpayers offset weak corporate and international travel. Delta said Wednesday, July 14, 2021, that it earned $652 million in the second quarter. However, Delta’s report shows that airlines still face turbulence as they try to rebound from their worst year ever.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) (Tony Gutierrez/AP)
Amazon said it has invested more than $8 billion in Illinois, where it has more than 36,000 full- and part-time workers. Amazon already has nine fulfillment and sorting centers and eight delivery stations in the state, in addition to a downtown Chicago office, stores and other facilities.
“Like many families, we realized during COVID that we needed to get a larger home, and it was something that was really a long time in the making,” he said. “We have two little boys, we were in a small, 1,200-square-foot ranch home in Lombard, and there was no office for (me). My law practice is national, so I’m flying around the country more often than I’m at our offices in downtown Chicago, and when I’m at home, I do need to have a good spot to work from out of the house.”
On Tuesday, in another sign of intensified inflation pressures, the government said that prices paid by U.S. consumers surged in June by the most in 13 years. It was the third straight month inflation has jumped. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core inflation rose 4.5% in June, the fastest pace since November 1991.