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Net Pryor, left, with her three sons, John, 1, Ryan, 11, and Rickey, 8, makes calls to get on a new flight to Disney World after missing their morning departure at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on March 25, 2022. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Overall, the project would mean 332,780 square feet of new construction, with completion in 2030. Once it’s finished, the hospital would have 326 licensed, staffed beds, said hospital president Susan Nordstrom Lopez. Now, the hospital has 397 licensed beds, but only about 304 are staffed, meaning only 304 are able to be used, she said.
An eastbound South Shore Line train arrives at the 11th Street station in Michigan City, Ind., where the tracks are at street level. The train travels from Chicago’s Millennium Station along the northern Indiana shoreline to the South Bend Airport. (Keri Wiginton, Chicago Tribune)
In contrast to the declines in major cities, the 2021 census estimates showed growth in U.S. micro areas, census areas anchored by a municipality of between 10,000 and 50,000, marking a reversal in trend of faster-growing metro areas. Kalispell, Montana, Jefferson, Georgia and Bozeman, Montana led in micro area growth.
Southwest’s most expensive tickets, called Business Select, are fully refundable and include early boarding, a free drink, and the most frequent-flyer points. Anytime tickets are also refundable, while Wanna Get Away ones are not. All three include up to two checked bags for free – something other U.S. airlines don’t offer – and free ticket changes.
Chicago-based Jewel, which is owned by Albertsons Companies Inc., had 60 days to implement pay raises after the new contract was ratified in late December, said Jeff Weiss, the special assistant to the president at Local 1546 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. The local represents about 4,000 meat, fish and deli workers at 182 Jewel-Osco locations in Chicago, the suburbs and northwest Indiana.
Inbound and outbound trains on the Metra Milwaukee District West line pass each other at the Canadian Pacific Railway Bensenville Intermodal Terminal, as seen from Mannheim Road on March 23, 2022, in Franklin Park. Metra says in a filing that a proposed merger between two major freight lines would cause delays to the commuter service and pose safety threats for customers. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Anthony Giusti stands outside a home he is painting in Houston on March 23, 2022. The San Francisco-area native left the Bay Area last year and moved to Houston where he started a home-painting business. He was one of tens of thousands of people who left the biggest metro areas in the U.S. and moved to Sunbelt metros during the first full year of the pandemic, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday, March 24. (AP)
Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer, they announced Thursday — an extremely rare surgery that could open the door to helping more patients with certain types of cancer. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
An FAA official who worked with Forkner, Stacey Klein, testified that Forkner lied to her that MCAS would never activate during normal airline use, only in certain high-speed situations that pilots would never encounter. Forkner’s lawyers said Boeing engineers did not tell him that the scope of the system had been expanded, and that he told Klein what he knew.