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Coleen Piteo, director of marketing at Yours Truly restaurant, puts out a sign for hiring June 3, 2021, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fifth straight week to a new pandemic low. (Tony Dejak/AP)
A Canadian National Rail locomotive moves through the rail yard in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Thursday, March 29, 2018. Canadian National sweetened its offer to buy Kansas City Southern railroad Thursday, May 13, 2021, and derailed rival Canadian Pacific’s bid for the railroad that handles traffic in the United States and Mexico. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP) (Andrew Vaughan/AP)
Chicago-based Wilson Sporting Goods, better known for sports equipment, recently introduced a sportswear line and plans to open its first stores later this year. Meanwhile, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Kohl’s announced new private-label apparel brands in March: VRST, a men’s line at Dick’s Sporting Goods, and FLX, for both men and women, at Kohl’s.
Credible compiled a list of 20 U.S. metro areas where homes are selling the fastest, using data from Zillow and ranking homes according to the average number of days they were listed before there was a pending sale in December 2020, the most recent month in which data was available for all metros. By Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker May 13, 2021
“With COVID, one thing we looked at is the density,” said Tim Walbert, Horizon’s chairman, president and CEO. “Even if you overcome the pandemic, there are lingering views that you want to have more space. I would say we’ve de-densified the campus by about a third of its previous capacity.”
“We’ve recently seen a significant, rapid decline in COVID-19 testing demand, and anticipate this trend will continue,” Stoffel said. “Our site in Gurnee helped Abbott deliver millions of rapid tests during the height of the pandemic and we’re proud of the contributions made to our country by workers at the facility.”
The poll, conducted between March 9 and April 8 with Ipsos, asked 25,000 people what they think about their current economic standing, their views on economic opportunity and the barriers they see standing between them and a more prosperous future.About 1,000 Chicago-area residents participated in the survey.
Twitter has been adding new features to attract new users. The social media site has nearly 200 million daily users, fewer than other social media networks. Facebook had 1.88 billion daily users on average in March 2021. Snapchat, meanwhile, had 280 million average daily active users in the first quarter.
Credible compiled a list of 20 U.S. metro areas where homes are selling the fastest, using data from Zillow and ranking homes according to the average number of days they were listed before there was a pending sale in December 2020, the most recent month in which data was available for all metros. By Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker May 13, 2021
Built in 2014, the house sits on an extra-deep lot. It has six bathrooms, two fireplaces, millwork, hardwood floors on the first and second levels, a primary bedroom with two walk-in closets, and a great room with built-in bookcases and coffered ceilings. Other features include a large family room with custom built-ins and high ceilings, a lower level with a wet bar and a kitchen with designer granite countertops, a Wolf stove and a Sub-Zero refrigerator.