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The icon for the Tinder dating app is seen July 28, 2020, on a device in New York. Tinder and other dating apps are offering incentives to people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, including badges showing their vaccination status. (Patrick Sison/AP)
Sales of masks at PrideMasks.com, the retail site set up by R&S Marching Arts, had been declining since a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, President Alan Spaeth said. Mask-making was a crowded field by the middle of last summer, and sales were down by the time vaccinations began in January, which in turn depressed demand significantly, he said.
Kent State University student Jarrett Woo gets his Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination April 8, 2021, from Kent State nursing student Allie Rodriguez in Kent, Ohio. Permanent Ohio residents who have been vaccinated can enter a lottery for a $1 million prize or a college scholarship. (Phil Long/AP)
“My view, CP’s view, has been and continues to be, the alternative is a deal that can’t be approved,” Creel said Thursday. “It’s not necessary to engage in a bidding war to match CN’s value, which is not achievable. There is no path to deal certainty. In fact, it’s a path wrought with deal uncertainty.”
In 2016, Michael Ferro, a tech entrepreneur and former owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, became Tribune Publishing’s largest shareholder and nonexecutive chairman. He briefly named the company Tronc, and when newspaper chain Gannett made an unsolicited — and ultimately unsuccessful — bid to buy Tribune Publishing, Ferro recruited Soon-Shiong to help fend off the hostile takeover, with Tribune selling him 4.7 million newly issued shares at $15 a share.
Bill Easton, a checker at a Safeway grocery store, is shown May 19, 2021, at a shopping center in Aurora, Colorado. Easton is fully vaccinated but is concerned about risks posed as retailers change their mask-wearing policies for customers. (David Zalubowski/AP)
The bank said Thursday that it formed a new business focused on improving care provided for about 285,000 people through its employer-sponsored health plan. Morgan Health will start with $250 million for investments and a health policy veteran as its CEO, former Clinton administration official Dan Mendelson.
Lawyer Howard Prossnitz works in the office in his coach house on May 4, 2021, in Oak Park. Prossnitz had the coach house built in 2016. “It’s like a little home,” he said, “with a kitchen, a full bathroom, an office, a television area and an eating area.” (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
In Lake Forest, where the average home increased 10.2% in value from $950,600 to $1,058,971, Deborah Fischer, a broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, said the buyers there have the same priorities. It was a big change from a few years ago when families were looking for something very modern and not so big.
Steve Easterbrook, then CEO of McDonald’s Corp., speaks June 4, 2018, at the grand opening of McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago. McDonald’s executives may face tough questions about Easterbook’s dismissal at the May 20, 2021, annual shareholder meeting. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)