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Rachael Martin, right, visiting from Kansas City talks with shop owner Teresa Ging while shopping for bakery goods May 4, 2021, in Sugar Bliss Bakery in Chicago’s Loop. In downtowns across the US, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return. (Shafkat Anowar/AP)

Planes wait parked behind a sign marking Boeing property April 20, 2020, at a Boeing production plant in Renton, Washington. Two members of Congress are seeking records from Boeing and the FAA about production problems affecting the 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

The logo for JPMorgan Chase & Co. appears Aug. 16, 2019, above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. JPMorgan Chase will promote former CFO Marianne Lake and current CFO Jennifer Piepszak to co-run the bank’s consumer finance division, potentially signaling that a woman may eventually run the nation’s biggest bank. (Richard Drew/AP)

Nate Mullins, a former bartender from Oak, Harbor, Washington, who quit his job last November, is seen near a street mural May 17, 2021, in Mount Vernon, Washington. Mullins’ unemployment checks are enough to get by while he looks for jobs that would provide health care and retirement benefits. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

This second phase of reopening for Navy Pier, the indoor hallways and spaces will reopen Thursday, with select businesses and retail stores following, according to the Tuesday announcement, “with the goal of being fully open by Memorial Day weekend.” Happy summer news for tourists and Chicagoans unafraid of looking like tourists.

A Walmart store is seen Nov. 18, 2020, in Derry, New Hampshire. Walmart blew past Wall Street projections, reporting strong sales results for the fiscal first quarter as shoppers continued to keep shopping at the discounter even as the pandemic eases. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Shoppers walk into a Macy’s department store Feb. 22, 2021, at Miami International Mall in Doral, Florida. Macy’s emerged from an unprecedented year by swinging to a profit. The retailer on May 18 posted net income of $103 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

Pritzker’s order said businesses must ensure all visitors, including customers, who are not fully vaccinated can practice social distancing, “but if maintaining a six-foot social distance will not be possible at all times, encourage those visitors to wear face coverings.” The new rules take effect immediately.

“We put growth plans on hold as the pandemic became clear, but opportunities come up, and this one did — it’s a beautiful space and a great location,” he said. “For us to open a place at this point in time, it had to check a lot of boxes: location, physical space, demographics of the area, and our ability as artists to feel like we could bring something different to the party.”

According to that report, when it comes to planes that carry more than 70 passengers, estimates based on standard weights published by the CDC will suffice. But new considerations are being given for smaller airliners where passenger and baggage weights need to be more accurate.