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Located in an elevator building, the unit has two bathrooms, 11-foot ceilings, polished concrete floors throughout, an open kitchen, a primary en-suite bedroom with a walk-in closet, and a formal dining area. The couple first listed the condo in April 2021 for $445,000 and then cut their asking price to $435,000 in June and then to $415,000 in August before finding a buyer.
New cigarettes VLN King and VLN Menthol King are for sale, April 11, 2022, at the Circle K convenience store in Wheaton. The cigarette is the first to be authorized by the FDA to be marketed as product designed to help smokers cut back. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
But she provided a statement from the hospital’s board of trustees saying: “George Miller is no longer the president and CEO of The Loretto Hospital or affiliated with the organization. Our leadership team, team members, and medical staff remain unwaveringly committed to providing the highest level of patient care and advocacy for the Austin community.”
In a March 31 letter to CEO Andy Jassy, committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush wrote they were “concerned by recent reports that Amazon may be putting the health and safety of its workers at risk, including by requiring them to work in dangerous conditions during tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather.”
Last year, El Milagro employees saw a round of raises that ranged between $1 to $3 per hour followed by a second raise of 36 cents across the board in December, said Shelly Ruzicka, Arise Chicago’s communications and development director. Before the raises, Ruzicka said, workers made approximately $15 to $17 an hour, with few reaching the higher end. Now, employees are starting at about $16.50 an hour, with most others making about $17 to $20 an hour. Arise Chicago estimates the raises affected 450 workers.
“Not only are we committed to remaining at the home of Chelsea, Stamford Bridge,” Pagliuca said, “but we are inspired to renovate or redevelop the stadium. Chelsea is a world-class team, in a world-class city, with world-class fans: it deserves a world-class stadium.”
Fuel prices are displayed as motorists line up for free gas at the BP station at Pulaski Road and Montrose Avenue on Thursday, March 17, 2022 in Chicago. The Labor Department said Tuesday its consumer price index jumped 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier, with gas and food prices serving as drivers. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“If you want to buy a $700,000 to $800,000 to a million-dollar home, you can buy them anywhere, there’s plenty of listings out there. But if you try to get anything under $450,000 in a major metropolitan area, it’s a dog race,” he said. “As interest rates rise, it will take a chunk of buyers out of the market because they can no longer afford the homes that have appreciated so much. Interest rates will have to go up significantly in order for it to start to soften housing prices. It’s likely that’s not going to happen.”
The report also highlighted the best 25 private, nonprofit hospital systems in the country for so-called “fair share spending” — those that spent more on charity care and in their communities than what they likely saved through tax exemptions. Illinois health system Memorial Health made that list, ranking 15th in the country for the highest amount spent on charity care and community investment over what the system likely saved from tax exemptions, at $31 million. Memorial has hospitals in Decatur, Jacksonville, Lincoln, Springfield and Taylorville.
In Florida, Webster said, more than 39,000 Floridians died from opioid abuse or related problems between 1999 and 2020. Walgreens, he said, sold about one of every four opioids in the state over a similar time span often under questionable circumstances, such as a shady doctor, fake prescriptions or huge amounts of drugs obviously far in excess of what was necessary for a given patient.