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Chicago developer Fifield Cos. Is set to present a 39-story apartment proposal for 125 W. Maple St. in a community meeting Monday. It’s also on the agenda for Thursday’s Chicago Plan Commission meeting. – Original Credit: Pappageorge Haymes Partners (Pappageorge Haymes Partners / HANDOUT)
United Airlines passengers wait to check in bags in Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport, June 29, 2021, in Chicago. United said Friday it plans to add more flights to some domestic and international beach destinations over the winter holidays. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Shoppers have been interacting with technology like self-checkout machines and automated customer service hotlines for years. But there are new tools taking on tasks workers used to do, from the retail sales floor to the restaurant drive thru, raising questions about what that technology means for workers’ jobs — and customer privacy.
For Anthony Ponce, the move is a homecoming of sorts, as he grew up in Wilmette. However, it’s also bittersweet, he told Elite Street, as he and his family enjoyed Bowmanville. He bought the 1,800-square-foot loft-style house in Bowmanville for $217,000 in 2010 and renovated it in 2012.
Pedestrians walk through Macy’s department store at Water Tower Place Thursday Jan. 7, 2020. Macy’s closed the department store, leaving the space vacant for the first time since the eight-story mall opened in 1975 with Marshall Field’s as the anchor tenant. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
“There were certainly some conversations about that, and we had a long conversation about what, from my perspective, I thought we were seeing, not just in Chicago, but really across the U.S.,” Lightfoot said in a Zoom call with reporters to discuss the trip. “They’re in the city of San Francisco. They’re proximate to L.A. They obviously know a lot about New York and other markets they’re in that are experiencing the same kinds of challenges that we are over this last year around public safety.”
“Right now, they are still very rare,” Dr. Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, a COVID-19 scientist and researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said of breakthrough infections. Even with the new delta variants, the protection rate offered by vaccines continues to be high, he said.
“‘Rush Hour’ and ‘On Balance’ emphasize our commitment to building a unique, one-of-a-kind news network that is independent, respects its viewers, and remains dedicated to keeping them engaged, with just a little bit of unpredictability thrown in for good measure,” Michael Corn, president of news for NewsNation, said in a news release Thursday.
“It’s the infrastructure and the networks that make it easier, safer, more comfortable to ride, and ride our bikes to the meaningful destinations in our lives,” she said. “Sure, please, ride to work. But I also want you to ride to the park, I want you to ride to the grocery store, I want you to ride to your neighbor’s house. We need to not just connect with our commuter routes, which is important, but to other neighborhoods.”
Customers pay a $4.20 entry fee (the amount is a reference to smoking pot) and may buy CBD, pipes and rolling papers and rent bongs out of the old bank vault. The lounge will provide entertainment, with bands, a fire eater and a tarot card reader for opening night, and comedians on other nights, plus video, cards and board games.