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At Laurel Hill Elementary School in Hanover Park, music teacher Lynne Schefke, who normally works at Huff Elementary School in Elgin, dismisses her students after substitute teaching in a dual language kindergarten classroom on Jan. 4, 2022. A surge of COVID-19 cases forced Elgin-based Unit School District 46 to close five of its 57 schools due to staffing shortages, including Huff Elementary. (Chicago Tribune)

Car dealership lots around Naperville, like this one at Toyota, have plenty of parking because of vehicle shortages caused by supply chain issues. The lack of vehicles means dealers can charge more for those they do have in stock. (Suzanne Baker / Naperville Sun)

Dermody plans to invest more than $500 million, including land acquisition, to redevelop the Allstate campus as a massive logistics and fulfillment operation, expediting delivery of products to consumers and businesses in the Chicago area, the company told the Tribune.

The project would displace some of the pond, hospital representatives said. A diagram showed how they would replace some of the volume in the pond that will be lost by building the expansion. The plan is to push some of the volume to the north end of the retention pond and expand the open water area along the sides.

In this April 25, 2021 file photograph, the blue oval logo of Ford Motor Company is shown in east Denver. Ford and security company ADT have formed a joint venture that will help businesses protect vehicles and expensive equipment they carry from theft. The first product from the venture called Canopy is a system that uses cameras, radar, global positioning and artificial intelligence to spot a potential thief and notify ADT, which will monitor the feeds and notify the customer or authorities if needed. (David Zalubowski/AP)

Frontier Airlines, which used to fly out of Midway Airport but left in early 2015 to consolidate operations at O’Hare International, now plans to fly out of both airports. It will resume flights out of Midway on April 28. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

A Dreamliner 787-10 arriving from Los Angeles pulls up to a gate at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Federal safety officials are directing operators of some Boeing planes to adopt extra procedures when landing on wet or snowy runways near impending 5G service because, they say, interference from the wireless networks could mean that the planes need more room to land. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, that interference could delay systems like thrust reversers on Boeing 787s from kicking in, leaving only the brakes to slow the plane. (Seth Wenig/AP)

The all-cash $68.7 billion deal will turn Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, into one of the world’s largest video game companies and help it compete with tech rivals such as Meta, formerly Facebook, in creating immersive virtual worlds for both work and play.

Richard and Sara Thomas and their daughter Sofy, 4, play with their dog Brooklyn in their backyard Tuesday, June 1, 2021 outside the garage they plan to convert into an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) behind their West Woodlawn home. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Pharmacists Howard Dvorin, left, and Allen Graber work behind the counter at The Ark, a free clinic in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on Nov. 30, 2021, in Chicago. In Illinois, a new law will take effect next year allowing people and institutions to donate unused medications. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)