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When the pandemic hit in March 2020, it prompted a statewide stay-at-home order for everything but essential businesses, and waves of furloughs and layoffs. Last year, the state paid out nearly $19.7 billion in unemployment benefits to about 1.5 million recipients, both annual records for Illinois, according to IDES spokeswoman Rebecca Cisco.
“What we’re seeing now is an extension of the credit card fraud and the retail theft that goes on continuously, as these criminal organizations shift over to target unemployment agencies nationwide,” Adam Ford, the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology’s chief information security officer, said in March.
Since starting in New York in 2019, Five Iron Golf has expanded into Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. After choosing its second Chicago location, the company is “casually looking” at additional locations in the city, Dunn said.
The settlement, announced by the U.S. Labor Department, covers back pay and interest for 114 applicants who sought positions at the US Foods distribution facility in Bensenville between Jan. 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. US Foods also agreed to offer 16 jobs to the pool of applicants, the company said Tuesday.
Patients can buy from recreational stores but would have to pay, in some cases, around 30% more in taxes. With Illinois’ market beholden to very few suppliers, its prices are already twice or more than that of other states, making it prohibitively expensive, Preston said.
Traffic and rush hour delays climbed into 2021, a trend Eisele expects to continue this year as schools and universities reopen, along with businesses. But ultimately, what traffic patterns look like will depend on the way residents’ lives have been reshaped by the pandemic: the rise in e-commerce and deliveries could mean more trucks, and remote working, telemedicine and other new patterns will shape daily driving, he said.
The new aircraft order — the largest in United’s history — will add 50 Boeing 737 Max 8s, 150 737 Max 10s and 70 Airbus A321neos to its fleet over roughly the next five years. In total, the airline has more than 500 new single-aisle aircraft on order, including 25 Boeing 737 Max jets ordered in March, with 40 set to arrive next year and 138 in 2023.
In this Monday, March 23, 2020, file photo, a worker walks near a mural of a Boeing 777 airplane at the company’s manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., north of Seattle. Federal regulators have indicated they likely won’t certify Boeing’s next airliner until 2023 because of questions about changes the aircraft manufacturer is making in software and hardware on a new version of the two-aisle 777 jet. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Southwest has about 56,000 employees, down from about 61,000 a year earlier, according to a regulatory filing. The company announced Wednesday that longtime CEO Gary Kelly will step down next February and be succeeded by Robert Jordan, the airline’s executive vice president of corporate services.
“At the present time, the most credible scenario is that the scissor lift struck a valve or other piece of piping with sufficient mechanical force to cause the release of mineral oil,” Wilson said. “Chemtool operators promptly detected the release and shut down the boiler. They were in the process of placing containment booms, as well as de-pressuring the heat transfer piping network, when the fire ignited.”