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Gas price is seen at a Mobil gas station in Vernon Hills, Ill., Friday, June 11, 2021. Energy stocks powered through the broader market’s January 2022 slump and are poised to keep rising as long as oil prices stay high and worries about looming interest rate hikes remain. Oil companies and firms that provide services to the industry have been a safe bet as the economy recovers and oil supplies remain constrained. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
Dr. Emily Landon, an infectious disease doctor at University of Chicago Medicine, speaks during a press conference at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago on Feb. 9, 2022, where it was announced that the state’s indoor mask mandate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be lifted by the end of February. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
CTA, like other Chicago-area public transit agencies, receives funding from a variety of sources, including sales taxes. Traditionally, at least 50% of funding across all the regional agencies must come from fares or other revenue the agencies generate themselves. During the pandemic, the agencies have also received federal funds they can use to keep trains and buses running.
Throughout the pandemic, federal emergency rental assistance funds have been available through multiple agencies, including the state, city of Chicago and Cook County. This breach affected only applicants to the program run by IHDA, which administers federal pandemic aid for the state.
Robert “AJ” Patton, of 548 Development, speaks during a news conference at Chicago’s Roosevelt Road and Kildare Avenue on Jan. 31, 2022, where a multimillion-dollar project was announced to develop vacant land bounded by Roosevelt Road and Kostner, Kildare and Fifth avenues. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Gov. J.B. Pritzker at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency office after issuing a disaster proclamation and activating 130 members of the National Guard to assist with emergency operations in central Illinois ahead of a winter storm on Feb. 1, 2022, in Springfield. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
A meeting is planned March 7 to hear concept plans for developing city-owned property at 103rd Street and Route 59 that would bring much-needed housing for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities and address the shortage of affordable housing for older adults. (Suzanne Baker / Naperville Sun)
But Carvana has over the last few months made changes to its plan to address concerns. It altered the route trucks will take coming to and from the building, reduced delivery hours, agreed to treat the glass exterior with decals to reduce bird strikes and to dim lighting at the site. And during the Feb. 7 meeting, the company also agreed to Trustee Edie Sue Sutker’s request that the internal and exterior lights on all four sides of the glass cube tower be turned off from March 15 to June 15 and from August 15 to November 15 each year between midnight and 7 a.m. when birds are typically migrating through the area.
According to the indictment, Reggans obtained unemployment insurance benefits from the Illinois Department of Employment Security using the names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other personal information from other people without their knowledge to file claims for jobless benefits.
The money will help the center expand a program it began in early 2015 which has, up to now, been focused on providing assistance in Black and brown communities in the south suburbs, Petruszak said. Half the funds from the Fannie Mae settlement will go toward establishing a similar grant program in Northwest Indiana, he said.