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Olivia Rodrigo has announced a special deluxe edition of her hit 2023 album, Guts, on stage during the first of her two-night stint at United Center in Chicago on Tuesday. The set will arrive this Friday, March 22. The singer made the announcement while singing “Get Him Back” and holding up a sign that said “Guts Deluxe Album” during the last song of her encore. Fans can now pre-save the deluxe edition on Spotify and Apple Music — notably, the pre-save website lists Rodrigo’s latest offering as Guts (spilled).…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report from an influential real estate organization calls on Chicago to take a bold step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. The city should set limits on emissions from certain buildings, using an approach already in place in New York, according to the report from the Urban Land Institute…

Air New Zealand will pause one of the world’s longest nonstop flights for up to six months due to what the carrier said is a shortage of engines for its Boeing Dreamliner aircraft. Air New Zealand will pause one of the world’s longest nonstop flights for up to six months due to what the carrier said is a shortage of engines for its Boeing Dreamliner aircraft. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In…

A Portillo's Beef Bus in Kissimmee, Florida.Source: Portillo'sWhen Chicago-based Portillo's enters a new market, it sends its "Beef Bus" ahead of time, slinging its hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches to new customers for weeks, introducing them to the brand and whetting their appetites before a new restaurant finally opens.Recently, the Beef Bus has been making a lot of trips to the Sun Belt."Texas, by itself, has grown more people in the last decade than eight midwestern states that we have a presence in combined,"…

Chicago has joined a growing list of cities that have cut ties with a controversial company that tries to reduce urban gun violence with 24/7 technology that listens for the crack of gunshots and immediately notifies police.This month, Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the city would not renew its contract with SoundThinking, the California-based company behind ShotSpotter, software that uses a network of hidden neighborhood sensors to detect the sound of gunfire.Chicago was spending around $9 million…

NEW YORK —  At the end of the musical “Chicago,” Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who has been charged with murdering her lover, is declared not guilty. It should be a victorious moment for the aspiring vaudeville star, but just as the verdict is announced, the press gets wind of another bloody crime unfolding down the courthouse hall. The media scrambles out of the room to cover the juicy new story, leaving a dejected Roxie behind.“Wait! I’m Roxie Hart! Don’t you want my picture?” she yells after them, alone with just her…

Apartments are seen undergoing construction on February 28, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesThe apartment market is finally loosening up. At the same time, competition is heating up in some key markets.There is an enormous supply of new apartments coming online this year. And rents have fallen for six straight months, now at their lowest levels since March 2022, according to search site Apartment List.For a one-bedroom apartment nationally, the latest estimated median rent is $1,207; for a two-bedroom…

A year after the Dodgers turned their backs on Cody Bellinger, the mercurial left-handed slugger has reportedly agreed to a three-year, $80-million contract with the Chicago Cubs. Bellinger is coming off a tremendous bounce-back season with the Cubs in 2023 that put him in position for the free-agent payday. As the offseason progressed, however, it became clear that many teams were reluctant to make a long-term commitment to him because of the wild fluctuations in his production with the Dodgers.Bellinger’s deal with the…

CLIMATEWIRE | Chicago filed suit Tuesday against six oil companies and an influential industry ally, joining the ranks of local governments looking to hold fossil fuel producers financially accountable for the effects of climate change.The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court accuses the companies, their subsidiaries and industry trade association the American Petroleum Institute of waging a campaign to discredit climate science and mislead the public about the dangers of burning fossil fuels.“While defendants have…

I t’s just past 11 a.m. on Christmas Eve, and Angimar leans forward in a blue, perforated metal chair to examine her toddler’s diaper. The boy has been tugging at his legging pants, and his walk is now more of a waddle. Along with most personal-hygiene products, diapers are in short supply. Within a few seconds, 28-year-old Angimar, who goes by Angi, makes a quick calculation, the kind that mothers of young children make hundreds of times each day. It’s time, she decides, for a new one.  Angi asks Yenni,…