His proposed city ordinance calls for $40 million of stimulus moneys to reimburse liquor license holders for the amount of time they were shut down. Some bar and restaurant owners said even if forgiveness works out to a couple hundred dollars on the $4,400 fee paid in advance, every dollar helps.

Led by Ald. Harry Osterman, the chair of the City Council’s Housing Committee, and Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, city officials plan to form a task force and a working group to draft new requirements for banks to meet if they want to keep the city’s lucrative business.

This will make the Lakeview elementary school the first CPS building to change its name through the district’s review process, which launched after a review found 30 schools are named after slaveholders.

“It was not a U.S. Senate seat to give away, as former Gov. Rod Blagojevich famously bragged, but a vaccine — to stave off a deadly virus. They had it. Everyone wanted it. So they slid their people to the front of the line, ahead of older, more vulnerable people. Maybe they like attention. Well, here it is, gentlemen.”

CDPH Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwardy says the city’s main priority at the moment is increasing vaccine supply.

“Nobody ever asked us to see it. They never asked at the airline desk,” said one traveler who spent $175 on a rapid COVID-19 test in order to comply with the airport’s warning before she flew. “You basically had a planeload full of people come from Nashville, Tennessee, come to your city today and nobody asked for proof that they had complied with the emergency order.”

“We’ve reassured folks on the West Side that we’re never going to leave them in the lurch, and we’re not. We have already put plans together for other providers to kind of take up the work that Loretto was doing,” Mayor Lightfoot said. “But clearly, they’ve got to have better systems in place; better controls. I don’t expect them to be coming back online anytime soon.”

Since the land bank, which was created under the leadership of Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer with Preckwinkle’s backing, first began acquiring and selling properties in 2014, it’s been involved in a number of questionable dealings. The county plans a “national search” to replace Rose.

The shop at 112 E. Oak St. is far from Loretto Hospital — and the vaccinations were offered to ineligible people who own and work at the high-end boutiques along the Gold Coast, as well as their family and friends, sources said. The Austin hospital is meant to serve and vaccinate people on the West Side, where coronavirus has devastated communities of color.

More than 7,000 homes were sold in the nine-county Chicago area in February, up 14.7% from February 2020, and the median sales price rose 12.5%, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors. In February, fewer than 17,000 single-family homes were publicly listed for sale in the Chicago area, the lowest number since at least 2008.

The site is one of five mass vaccination sites in Cook County, which includes sites in Tinley Park and Des Plaines.

Hospital Board members state Rep. La Shawn Ford and state Sen. Kimberly Lightford would say only that neither the CEO nor the COO was fired.

Journey Shannon owns a business in town and says she is firmly behind the approved allocation, adding that there is plenty of time to look at how best the rest of the money can be spent. “What I would like to see is new programs established for people to learn new trades and new skills. But we don’t all need a check. Some of us just need to learn how to be better business people.”

Monday’s announcement of a $24 million mental health plan offers a first look at how Chicago plans to spend some of the $1.8 billion in federal stimulus funds coming its way. At the center of that work is a recognized need for a culturally relevant and trauma-supported approach to helping Chicago students. What it won’t do, however, is bring in new staff, instead training support workers and educators already in school buildings.

“Our focus is always on the residents of our jurisdiction,” said Dr. Kiran Joshi of the Cook County Department of Public Health. “So then I think it behooves us in the spirit of cooperation to open up our sites to residents outside of suburban Cook County.” Cook County plans to join Illinois in offering vaccine appointments to everyone 16 and older April 12. The City of Chicago has its own rules.

Two children and a Chicago police officer are among those injured, according to reports.