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People walk by a Macy’s retail location in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Macy’s is reporting strong fourth-quarter sales and profits that exceeded Wall Street estimates even as the department store chain faced numerous challenges from supply chain issues to labor shortages and inflation. (Matt Rourke/AP)
As of Tuesday, the city’s test positivity rate of 1.5%, was in the “low transmission” category, while its rate of occupied hospital and ICU beds was in “lower transmission.” The seven-day rolling average of new daily cases was still at “substantial transmission” at 283 cases, but all those categories were decreasing.
In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, specialist Stephen Naughton works at his post on the trading floor, Tuesday, Feb 22, 2022. Stocks shifted between small gains and losses in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as tensions escalated in Ukraine over Russia’s decision to send forces into that nation’s eastern regions. (Allie Joseph/AP)
Katie Kennedy, a spokesperson for Eaton’s aerospace division, declined to confirm for the Register whether company representatives are staying away from talks until March 1, saying only that the company has “proposed dates to continue negotiations.”
Prices have risen sharply for cars, gas, food and furniture, but so far it has not held back American consumers, who ramped up their spending at retail stores last month. Last week the government reported that retail sales jumped 3.8% from December to January, a much bigger increase than economists had expected. Though inflation helped juice that figure, most of January’s gain reflected more purchases, not higher prices.
The mansion has six bathrooms, seven fireplaces, a first-floor English pub, a custom Amish kitchen, a finished basement and a four-car garage. Outside on the 0.73-acre property — which is unusually large for Elmhurst — are a complete renovated pool and spa, bluestone walkways and patios, an expansive front lawn, a gazebo, extensive gardens and a covered terrace with an outdoor fireplace.
In this video titled “The Lesser Known Ultraviolet Killer” posted to YouTube on May 5, 2008, Dr. Joseph Mercola talks about “the dangers of sun exposure and how you can prevent yourself from cancer.” About a dozen influential anti-vaxxers — including Chicago-born and trained physician Dr. Joseph Mercola — were responsible for nearly two-thirds of anti-vaccine content on social media, according to a report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate last year. (YouTube)
The city last year sued Carlson over exterior conditions at the North Richmond Street property, noting that inspectors could not get inside the two-story building, public records show. Three months later, on a Cook County judge’s orders, city inspectors visited again and found fire safety violations inside the property, including a common stairway devoid of smoke detectors.
A river otter peers above an ice floe. The animals are great at hiding, said Cook County Forest Preserve District wildlife biologist Chris Anchor, and can be hard to spot even when he knows they’re in a certain location. (Jeff Nelson / Cook County Forest Preserves)
They also changed some CTA hiring practices, which President Dorval Carter said could help address challenges experienced nationwide in recruiting workers. Moving forward, the CTA will be able to directly hire full-time bus operators, rather than pulling full-time workers only from an existing pool of part-time operators, and hire weekend part-time operators as needed.