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Chicago Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 11:46

Bears unveil $5bn proposal for new domed lakefront stadium
Plan calls for $900m from Illinois Sports Facilities Authority

The Chicago Bears unveiled a nearly $5bn proposal Wednesday for an enclosed stadium next door to their current home at Soldier Field as part of a major project that would transform the city’s lakefront, and they are asking for public funding to help make it happen.

The plan calls for $3.2bn for the new stadium plus an additional $1.5bn in infrastructure. The team and the city said the project would add green and open space while improving access to the city’s Museum Campus and could also include a publicly owned hotel.

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Chicago’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 02:26

City officials made the decision after saying the sidewalk in Roscoe Village was damaged and needed to be replaced

A Chicago sidewalk landmark some residents affectionately referred to as the “rat hole” has been removed after city officials decided it was damaged and needed to be replaced.

The sidewalk had an impression that looked like the outline of a rat with claws and a tail, and had been present in Chicago’s North Side neighbourhood of Roscoe Village for years, but it found fresh fame in January after a Chicago comedian shared a photo on the social platform X.

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Can TikToks reduce gun violence? Ask these teenagers

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 4 April - 10:00

Project Unloaded invited students in Chicago to create online marketing campaigns – here’s what happened

This story is a collaboration between the Guardian and the Trace , a non-profit newsroom covering guns in America. A more detailed version of the story can be found here .

Once upon a time in America, people rolled their eyes at seatbelts, four out of 10 high school students smoked cigarettes, and campers left their fires smoldering through the night. Then we changed. Not primarily because of policy reforms, but because teams of marketers crafted public health messaging campaigns in which chatty crash test dummies told us to buckle up, teens piled 1,200 body bags in front of the Philip Morris headquarters, and Smokey the Bear identified who can prevent forest fires.

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Nearly 130,000 children exposed to lead-tainted drinking water in Chicago

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 18 March - 19:32

Study says the 19% of kids using unfiltered tap water have about twice as much lead in their blood as they would otherwise

About 129,000 Chicago children under the age of six are exposed to poisonous lead in their household drinking water because of lead pipes, according to a study published on Monday.

The study used artificial intelligence to analyse 38,000 home water tests conducted for the city of Chicago, along with neighborhood demographics, state blood samples and numerous other factors.

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Chicago battles measles with calls for vaccination—in contrast with Florida

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 March - 21:49

Enlarge / A brightly colored transmission microscope image of measles viruses. (credit: Getty | BSIP )

A team of health experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Chicago Tuesday to help respond to a flare-up of measles cases at a migrant shelter in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, according to CNN .

So far, there have been four cases identified at the Halsted Street shelter: two young children, one recovered and one hospitalized in good condition as of March 10; and according to an announcement on Monday, March 11 , two adults who were reported in good condition.

The four cases come just days after the city's health department announced a measles case in a Chicago resident with no recent travel outside of the city and no reported connection with the shelter. The case, announced on March 7 , was the first measles case identified in the city since 2019, officials noted. It remains unclear how that resident contracted the highly infectious virus, though the health department noted that the person had been in contact with domestic and international travelers. The person was said to be recovering well at home, and their infectious period ended on March 6.

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Hoop Dreams at 30: Arthur Agee, William Gates and the ties that bind

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 7 March - 09:00

Arthur Agee and William Gates never fulfilled their dream of making the NBA, but the subjects of the groundbreaking 1994 doc ended up making more of an impact than many who did

America has long obsessed over celebrity and the quest for fame. Thirty years ago, millions of moviegoers got to see that desire up close thanks to the groundbreaking documentary Hoop Dreams, which focused on two teenage basketball players, Arthur Agee and William Gates. The pair never fulfilled their dream of making the NBA, but Agee and Gates ended up making more of an impact than many who did.

“I always wish that we would have made it,” Gates tells the Guardian. “That feeling will never go away. I wish we would have achieved the ultimate hoop dream.”

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United Airlines reveals first eVTOL passenger route starting in 2025

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 24 March, 2023 - 14:40

An Archer eVTOL aircraft wearing the United livery takes off, with more eVTOL craft in the background

Enlarge / United has chosen its hometown of Chicago for the country's first commercial eVTOL route. (credit: Archer Aviation)

In 2025, United Airlines will fly an air taxi service between the downtown Vertiport Chicago and O'Hare International Airport, using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft it is purchasing from Archer Aviation. The Archer Midnight eVTOL aircraft will complete the route in about 10 minutes; according to local resident and Ars Managing Editor Eric Bangeman, that journey by car can take over an hour due to road construction.

"Both Archer and United are committed to decarbonizing air travel and leveraging innovative technologies to deliver on the promise of the electrification of the aviation industry," said Michael Leskinen, president of United Airlines Ventures. "Once operational, we're excited to offer our customers a more sustainable, convenient, and cost-effective mode of transportation during their commutes to the airport."

United placed an order for 200 eVTOL aircraft from Archer back in 2021 at a cost of $1 billion. The startup has also raised money from the automaker Stellantis, which has been helping the company with making carbon fiber composites.

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Here’s where traffic sucked the most in 2022

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 10 January, 2023 - 17:11 · 1 minute

Traffic on the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago at dusk, with the downtown skyline behind.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

Did your commute get worse in 2022? Overall, congestion cost the country more than $81 billion, says transportation data company Inrix. It just published its Global Traffic Scorecard for the past year, and the data says the typical US driver spent 51 hours in traffic last year, 15 hours more than in 2021. And due to increased fuel prices and other inflation, the average driver paid $134 more for fuel last year than the year before—and that's in addition to $869 in lost time.

Although it's not as severe as it was in 2020 or 2021 , it's still possible to see the effect of the pandemic in Inrix's data. In the US, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) increased by 1 percent year-on-year, but we still drove 9 percent fewer miles per year than before the pandemic. Interestingly, Inrix says this is due to more people continuing to work from home, which it says now accounts for 17.9 percent of Americans—before the pandemic, work from home accounted for only 5.7 percent of workers, according to the US Census Bureau.

Sadly, road safety is still rather abysmal; the estimated fatality rate of 1.27 deaths per 100 million VMT is 17 percent higher than we saw in 2019, although there has been a slight reduction from 2021's high of 1.3 fatalities per 100 million VMT. And while some of the other trends found in the report exist in countries like the UK or Germany, the rise in road deaths appears to be unique to the US.

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Chicago: Après la fusillade du 4-Juillet, cet orphelin a ému tout le pays

news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Wednesday, 6 July, 2022 - 13:55 · 2 minutes

Fusillade cagnotte McCarthy

ÉTATS-UNIS - L’entraide face à l’horreur. Aux États-Unis, des dizaines de milliers de personnes se sont mobilisées pour aider un petit garçon de 2 ans, devenu orphelin après la fusillade de Highland Park le 4 juillet , près de Chicago. Ses deux parents, Irina et Kevin McCarthy, font partie des sept victimes abattues par Robert Crimo, 21 ans .

Présent avec eux ce jour-là, leur fils Aiden s’en est sorti indemne et a été mis en sécurité par des habitants. Le père d’Irina McCarthy, Michael Levberg, a déclaré au Chicago Sun-Times que son gendre, Kevin, est mort en protégeant son petit-fils. “Il avait Aiden sous son corps quand il a été abattu”, a-t-il déclaré, la voix brisé.

Remember this little boy found wandering alone after #HighlandPark parade? We’ve just found out why… both his parents were killed💔

A fundraiser has been started for Irina and Kevin McCarthy’s 2-yo son Aiden as he grows up without them

Link: https://t.co/qKc4mOVX2t @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/7fxYE3OoS4

— Marissa Parra (@MarParNews) July 5, 2022

“ Vous souvenez-vous de ce petit garçon retrouvé errant seul après la parade de Highland Park? Nous venons de découvrir pourquoi… ses deux parents ont été tués. Une collecte de fonds a été lancée pour le fils de 2 ans d’Irina et Kevin McCarthy, Aiden, alors qu’il grandit sans eux” .

2 millions de dollars déjà levés

Une cagnotte a été créée pour aider l’enfant et ses grands-parents, qui vont désormais l’élever. “Aiden se retrouve dans une position impensable: grandir sans ses parents”, écrit Irina Colon, la créatrice de la cagnotte, en description. “Il aura un long chemin à parcourir pour guérir, trouver la stabilité et finalement naviguer dans la vie d’orphelin”, ajoute-t-elle, précisant que cet appel au don a été fait avec la permission de la famille.

Alors que la cagnotte a été créée il y a moins de 24h, elle a été repartagée de nombreuses fois sur les réseaux sociaux et comptabilise à ce jour plus de 2 millions de dollars, grâce à près de 38.000 dons.

Le pays est encore sous le choc d’une série de fusillades dont l’une a fait 21 morts, dont 19 enfants, le 24 mai au Texas . Le président Joe Biden a ordonné mardi la mise en berne des drapeaux sur les bâtiments publics. Il a récemment obtenu un relatif succès politique en faisant voter au Congrès une loi visant à mieux réguler la vente d’armes , dont près de 400 millions sont en circulation aux Etats-Unis.

Selon le site Gun Violence Archive, qui inclut les suicides dans ses données, plus de 22.400 personnes ont été tuées par arme à feu depuis le début de l’année.

À voir également sur Le HuffPost: À Uvalde, des chiens tentent de réconforter les Texans après la fusillade ayant fait 21 morts