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FILE – Dave Limp, senior vice president for Amazon devices & services, holds an Echo Dot with Clock device as he speaks Sept. 25, 2019, in Seattle. Amazon and telemedicine provider Teladoc Health are starting a voice-activated virtual care program that lets customers get medical help without picking up their phones. The service, for health issues that aren’t emergencies, will be available on Amazon’s Echo devices. Customers can tell the voice assistant Alexa that they want to talk to a doctor, and that will prompt a call back on the device from a Teladoc physician. The program, announced Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 marks Amazon’s latest health care expansion and another push into telemedicine. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) (Ted S. Warren/AP)
The New York Stock Exchange is seen in New York, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Markets quivered Monday amid worries about how high oil prices will go and how badly the global economy will get hit after the U.S. and allies upped the financial pressure on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. (Seth Wenig/AP)
The Aspen Group chairman and CEO Bob Fontana, left, and other executives tour the Aspen Group Oral Care Center, a free dental clinic just for low-income residents in Illinois, located in the West Loop on Feb. 25, 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
The Lombardo family first listed the three-flat in August for $800,000, and they cut their asking price to $750,000 later that month and then in September to $725,000 and again to $700,000. In October, they reduced their asking price further, to $675,000, followed by another reduction to $665,000 in December.
A worker shortage is affecting many carriers, though United might be particularly hard hit, said Mike Klemm, president of the union that represents ramp agents, customer service workers, baggage handlers and others at United and other airlines. Until recently, some employees were required to work longer hours to keep up with the airline’s schedules, he said.
Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, holds a face mask while speaking on Feb. 22, 2022, as the city announces it will be ending its indoor mask requirement in most locations on Feb. 28. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
“When you’re a super-regional mall like this with over 120 shops, in this day and age, it’s important to reflect the community that you serve and we do have a very robust local leasing program. Almost 40 shops and eateries are owned by local entrepreneurs including Black-owned businesses,” he said. “We have curated this collection of local retailers, and it’s offered a freshness and diversity that I think has enhanced the shopper experience and it may be why we recovered better than most malls after the pandemic.”
A collection of 19th century Will County buildings that were saved from demolition and placed at Heritage Village in Lockport includes an outhouse, farmhouse, train depot and smokehouse. No dates were recorded for the outhouse and smokehouse, but the farmhouse goes back at least to 1863 and was in Crest Hill. (Paul Eisenberg / Daily Southtown)
Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, speaks during a news conference at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago on Feb. 9, 2022, where it was announced that the state’s indoor mask mandate will be lifted. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Keith first listed the Chicago property in January for $1.699 million, which means that Friday’s sale was above the asking price. The house has 4-1/2 bathrooms, five fireplaces, hardwood floors and a kitchen with an island, along with a two-car garage.