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Starbucks worker Rachel Simandl, center, with fellow workers Logan Higgins, from left, Fernando Vargas-Soto, Maria Fantozzi, and Kaylie McKinley, outside a location in the 100 block of North Wabash Avenue April 7, 2022, in Chicago. Simandl, who works at a location in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, has helped file for a union election. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Members of IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Local 1220 hold a strike event outside the WTTW studios in Chicago on Monday, March 21, 2022. Two dozen WTTW technicians, represented by IBEW, ended a three-week strike after agreeing to a new four-year labor contract Thursday afternoon with the Chicago public TV station. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
“This (site) will get built, whether it’s built by us or if for whatever reason we are not awarded the casino, it’ll be built by other developers,” Soo Kim, chairman of Rhode Island-based Bally’s, told the audience. “That traffic is coming. Our site, not only is it reductive … it also gives the most amount of flexibility in terms of how we move the traffic around the entire 30 acres.”
Divvy scooters will be available under existing membership programs, including the bike-share system’s program for low-income residents. When Divvy scooters launch, the city and Lyft will add a monthly $10 credit for a year to accounts in the low-income program, which can be used for up to 200 minutes on an e-bike, city officials said.
A sold sign is shown in front of a home, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged up again this week as the key 30-year loan rate hit its highest mark in more than three years. The increase comes a few weeks after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point in an attempt to tamp down four-decade high inflation. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private economic development arm, bought full-page ads Thursday promoting Chicago as a more inclusive business climate than cities in Florida, Texas and Arizona, where new legislation targets the LGBTQ+ community. (World Business Chicago / HANDOUT)
Hospitals and long-term care facilities including nursing homes would be able to set guidelines for visitors, such as requiring health screenings, mask-wearing and vaccination. If a health care facility determined a visitor posed a risk to patients or workers, they could be denied visitation, though the denial would have to be given in writing.
A Berwyn native, Peterik, 71, has been in The Ides of March twice — from 1966 until 1973 and again since the group’s revival in 1990. He also was in Survivor from 1978 until 1988 and again from 1993 until 1996. He may be most known for cowriting the “Rocky III” theme song, “Eye of the Tiger.”
Water Tower Place has faced significant challenges over the last several years. In January 2021, the mall’s anchor tenant, Macy’s, announced it was vacating its space in the mall, leaving more than 300,000 square feet empty for the first time since the mall opened in 1975. The department store opened that year as Marshall Field’s; it had operated under the Macy’s name since 2006.
Through a land trust, the Collitons paid $1.63 million in 2019 for the 11-room house in Lakeview, which was built in 2008. Located on a cul-de-sac, the house has 4-1/2 bathrooms, three gas fireplaces, hardwood floors, a third-floor office and media room, a playroom on the lower level, and an attached and heated, two-car garage. Outside are three decks with new composite decking, and snow melt for both the new front steps and the driveway.