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Other airlines have taken varying approaches to requiring vaccines for employees. Southwest Airlines said at the end of February no employees had lost jobs over vaccine rules. At American Airlines, unvaccinated employees, including those with religious or medical accommodations, were required to complete weekly health declarations, wear masks and social distance.
In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, trader John Romolo works on the trading floor, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Back down went stocks on Wall Street Thursday as global markets keep swinging on uncertainty about where inflation, interest rates and the global economy are heading. (Allie Joseph/AP)
Kearre Washington pumps gasoline into his vehicle at the BP gas station at Wabash and Roosevelt, in Chicago, Tuesday, Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation in the US jumped 7.9% over the past year, according to a new government report. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
After a news conference by city officials on safety on Chicago Transit Authority buses and trains, a Chicago police sergeant enters the CTA Red Line station at Chicago Avenue and State Street on March 9, 2022. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
The terra cotta skyscrapers are deteriorating, but still stand tall as seminal developments in downtown Chicago. Completed in 1915, the 16-story Century Building at 202 S. State St. was designed by Holabird & Roche, a pioneering Chicago architecture firm that built a number of prominent commercial high-rises. The 22-story Consumers Building at 220 S. State St. was completed in 1913 and designed by Jenney, Mundie & Jensen. Lead architect William Le Baron Jenney is credited as building the first modern skyscraper, the nearby Home Insurance Building, in 1885.
With a mix of a pair of two-bedroom units, a one-bedroom and a studio, Shuck already has a studio and two-bedroom apartment rented. Rents range from $1,350 a month for the studio to $1,750 for the two bedroom places. They range in size from 750 to 1,450 square feet.
“Longer term, I think clean energy would be the best way to go, like wind, solar, even nuclear power,” Hawken said. “Shorter term, being more energy-independent within the United States as far as oil reserves go would at least, I believe, help Ukraine crisis.”
Twenty-five years in the making, according to Alia Bilal, IMAN’s deputy executive director, the Fresh Market is a re-imagined model of the traditional neighborhood corner store that is centered on health, wellness and healing with its inventory of fresh produce, vegan and gluten-free foods. Urban farmers, local food vendors and entrepreneurs can sell their products through the market on the ground level while residents can attend wellness classes on the second story. Bilal and Sana Syed, IMAN’s senior director of strategic initiatives, said access to healthy food through the Fresh Market is part of a vision that will strengthen the 63rd Street corridor and serve as an anchor in the ecosystem of future developments in the Englewood area.
FILE – A sign is displayed outside a McDonald’s restaurant, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. McDonald’s said Tuesday, March 8, 2022, it is temporarily closing all of its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The burger giant said it will continue paying its 62,000 employees in Russia. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
In Chicago, the number of drivers commuting downtown daily last year was 21% below 2019, according to an annual traffic report by INRIX. But the roads have become increasingly dangerous during the pandemic, with 1,363 traffic fatalities across the state last year, up more than a third from 2019, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.