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"In Chicago's afternoon news. I'm Steve Burke trying and we're talking about getting back to business, right? They call it this lazy worker test the idea that workers didn't go back to the job because they were getting that extra 300 that's going away, including for 425,000. Illinois. And so what will that mean for restaurants in the Chicago area? Roger Romanelli is from the Chicago restaurant Coalition. He talked to WGN's on the day of Lantus earlier. What did you find out? Most of the restaurants I spoke with this morning agreed completely. There's one restaurant that just got a rash of application. I mean, A great increase of applications last week from an incredible trickle over the past three months, most of restaurants I spoke to do not expect a significant increase of people coming back into the restaurant workforce now that the unemployment benefits have run out as of yesterday. So there's Roger Romanelli. Terry Savage. How can that be? We were being told over and over that it was this big, fat unemployment check that was keeping workers home. Well, we're going to see. I mean, First of all, there are a lot of people that have other problems, so a big part of this jobs going unfilled is a skills gap. Second part of it is there's still some people that are very concerned about covid, even though they may be vaccinated. A lot of people in a certain demographic. There are layoffs turned into early retirement, and they're not coming back, and I personally think that a lot of concern about child care And even a single mother, of course, But families were impacted by the concerned about going back to work and uncertainties about childcare. And finally, I think, you know you're talking murder. I was talking earlier about low wages and the fact that, um many of these businesses are going to have to pay up. Which of course, could pressure inflation and well, we have been talking about that. The point. Is there a lot of reasons not to go back, but one of them might be that. Quote. I was making more money or unemployed in these low paid jobs weren't attractive and it was summer and I didn't want to work and now we're going to see the next three or four weeks of unemployment numbers. Of jobs, You know, new job growth numbers are going to be really interesting. 31298172 hundreds of telephone number. We've talked about this about whether this sort of reluctance or the slowness and Returning would actually result in higher wages and of, you know, uh, seismic change in the way workers are paid. I was looking at the jobless numbers from last week. Leisure and hospitality saw zero net job growth in August. But wages were up 1.3% for the month and over 10% for the year. 10%. That's amazing. And maybe not always together. Good, right? Well, you know, it depends on the glass is half full or half empty. This is an issue. Um, we've had workers. We've had a huge gap in wages between higher paid workers and the lower paid workers. We've had restrictions on immigration, where Some of the traditional lower paid jobs, particularly out west in the our agriculture. Um, they've been hurting for workers. So I mean, seriously going to be just fascinating to see whether fewer workers and the demand for them pushes wages up good for them that are working bad for inflation numbers. What if the Fed do them? It'll be interesting to see. Okay. I want to get Cindy on the line because she's called with a question, Cindy. Thank you for holding on. Hi. Nice to talk to you guys. He listened, Terry. I just sold the house and I don't have to buy a new one. So I have extra money. I worked full time. I'm not going to retire for at least five more years, so I put as much as I possibly can into my 41 K. Do you have a young son who's in college? A daughter who's in college? I want to get the best bang for my buck. Um, you know, I'm not looking to get to produce a rich, but I don't want to start spending my money. Okay, I'm going to ask you the question. I ask everybody who who asked me this question about where do I get more burn more, You know, bank CDs and money markets are paying next to nothing. The first question. I'm gonna ask you is how much of this money are you willing to lose? None. Okay. There you go. There you go. All right. There you go. Now. I'm just going to presume you've been contributing near 41 K and for one case have choices that revolve around stock market growth funds and so forth, So I'm just going to make the presumption that you've got some exposure to the stock market. Yeah, and I'm glad you have extra money left over. But and it's very painful for me to say to people go to a bank and put it in the CD that's paying a quarter represent, but interest rates are starting to inch up. With or without the fence. And so I think you're going to see higher interest rates and I would tell you to keep it liquid. If you're looking for the best rate, there's a website called depending on how much money you have Max my interest. Dot com and it directs your money to online banks. FBI insured to pay the highest rates, but it's still not going to make a huge difference. Yeah. Thank you so much. Good luck, Cindi. Hey, Terry. I'm sure you've been following the stool. We're tracking the weather today. Lawrence got another warning for us. After about an hour of calm. Now, the national weather Services issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northeastern Livingston County, Southwestern Will county southern Grundy County in western Kinky Key County until 6:30 P.m.. So that's you know, part of Kentucky Bourbon A and Bradley so again until 6 30. Thanks very much for that. Lauren, stay on it and keep us posted. I really m fascinated to see how this is gonna end up now We got a text from one person who says I retired a year early because of Covid. So there's a worker out of Someone who said they're very happy that this extended unemployment is ending because they've been in an office And they say that that the ladies they want people to get off their lazy butts and come back and help her in the office, So we'll see if they go back. One more When I applied for unemployment, the required job search was waived. During this time, when will it be required to start up again? Do you know the answer to that, Terry? No, the actually the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The one thing it's really focused on now is getting people. To commit and prove that they are hunting for work. In fact, here's another. You know, me and the I D s there the worse than and they sent out a big bulletin, saying some ideas officers are reopening for in person number one. None of them were in Chicago. There's one in Tilson and there's one in wheeling and the rest of them were all downstate. But worse. I read this whole press release. Okay, They're going to open up. No, they're not opening up by the way to help you solve your problem. About that. So, um, I d s is now focusing on making sure that people who are still collecting benefits are certifying correctly that they're searching for jobs. That's the great Terry Savage. Check out Terisa vigil this week and Thanks, Steve. It's Chicago's afternoon news. We're going to head into the Northwestern medicine newsroom coming up..
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"Walk ins. License plates, however, can be renewed online. Members of Chicago's City councillor said to get a pay raise, but some aldermen are choosing not to take the pay raise by opting out of the clause. 15th word. Alderman Ray Lopez is among them. He says he hopes that others on the council Do the same. Hopefully, people will follow by example. My No. There's some aldermen that won't but I think that many aldermen are going to do the right thing. I don't know how you justify the largest pay increase in 15 years to your constituents. When many people have been struggling to find work, struggling to pay their bills struggling to keep afloat, Lopez was a guest on the Ana Devlin to show Federal unemployment benefits related to the pandemic are set to expire soon. Some were hoping it would boost the restaurant workforce, which is currently suffering from shortages. Roger Romanelli of the Chicago Restaurant Coalition says that Spike isn't coming most restaurants I spoke to do not expect a significant increase of people coming back into the restaurant workforce now that the unemployment benefits have run out as of yesterday, he says he's heard of just one restaurant that saw a wave of applications come in, but says many former restaurant workers have moved on. From the industry. Kevin Powell is looking at all things sports White Sox have lost eight straight regular season games at Oakland Coliseum. That's where they are tonight started three games set against the Athletics and with the sack starting rotation banged up Ready. Jimmy Lambert gets the call up from Charlotte will make his third career start. Cubs first baseman Frank Swindle named National League Player of the week He betted 4 62 with five homers. Cubs on a seven game winning streak. That's the longest active winning streak in baseball. They host the Reds tonight. The tarp has come off the field at Wrigley Game Week for the Bears will face L. A Sunday night, the fourth consecutive year, the two teams will meet. His Rams head coach Sean McVeigh on facing the Bears four years in a row. It doesn't change much. I mean, I think, if anything, it gives you greater appreciation for what you're going against, You know, they've obviously got a couple things different, where some key personnel at some key spots. We've got to change at the defensive coordinator position, but they still got great players in college Football. Alabama remains number one of the AP Top 25 Georgia now second after their win over Clemson, Ohio State third, followed by Oklahoma and Texas A and M Notre Dame of one spot to eighth. Iowa is 10. I'm Kevin.
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"As well. I know the audience to use his, uh, either potato starch based utensils or corn, starch based utensils. You know, utensils that are biodegradable. That's where the city should be helping restaurants go green. So, for example, if a restaurant decides to convert to biodegradable utensils, the city could give those restaurants grants. But certainly I do like the idea of encouraging people to tell me ask for utensils if they need them. The thing, Anna that You know, we want to support neighborhood festivals as well. That is an area that our association has been calling for biodegradable materials for a long time because we love our neighborhood festivals in the restaurants participate, but and I've run a couple of those festivals when they're over. And everybody's gone. We have so much garbage. It's like 1000 Christmas mornings. So I like the idea of going green. We got to go green. Yeah, Somewhere. Everything is moving and the nice part about this is they're not going to come find you as you point out or struggling restaurant because they put a plastic fork in your bag. They just sort of sort of setting the the tone that this is how it's a good idea to operate. So if you if a customer requests it, go ahead and toss it in the bag. But don't just load it up with a bunch of plastics. Unless they do, I think Personally when I'm bringing it home, you know you don't need that stuff and I just don't feel like I should check in the bag and give it back to him. The big issue. I want to put on the table, though on the radio, this opportunities that Hannah I'm hearing from restaurants that customers are still a bit afraid to either come to the city from the suburbs or Spend too much time at night out there in the city. We've had some really, really unfortunate crimes as you know. And so our association has been talking about Look. Let's get people away from crime. Let's offer them $15 an hour to go into a job training program, maybe a job training program where they can then work at a restaurant. But we got to solve the crime problem. We've got to squarely address it. This business of lakeshore drive. Nobody should be talking about this right now. We should be focused on crime and helping our small businesses. And helping our residents. I am shocked that anybody would be talking about lakeshore drive right now at all. Yeah, I agree with you. There are so many larger issues doesn't mean they can't do all of it. But let's talk about the things that matter to at first. I mean, what do you think of that idea, though, if we paint people $15 an hour to go take a job training class to become a chef or become an assistant. Then we get him away from crime. You know, we offer him real money from the cities to fund or the federal covid fund. Yeah, because you see some some of these crimes they're scaring people. And you know I can't. We don't blame the customers, but It's a balancing act in our city and again we We really just encourage people to look Take a moment. Walk around your neighborhood. Look at the business. You have support your neighborhood businesses. And if you do if you have any question you feel uncomfortable going out to a restaurant or you see something that you don't like sanitary wise. Contact our coalition, you know, let us know if you're uneasy about anything. You know about any restaurant operation? I think people are still little have a little trepidation of going back and indoor dining. We really want to get over that hump. Yeah, I hear you, Roger. It's good to get the update from you. You always ask around, and I appreciate that. Some reason. I feel like a calzone now. I don't know why. Oh, yeah. Enjoy. Thanks for thank you again to all the WGN listeners for sporting restaurants in Chicago Chicago restaurants dot org. That's our website. Chicago restaurant dot org. Thanks, Anna. The best. Thank you. Roger You, too. Roger Romanelli there with the Chicago restaurant Coalition. Well, let's check traffic.
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"In the district. Some opponents like Roger Romanelli say it was an unfair process. Shame on the school district for ramming through this process during a pandemic. Shame on them for not waiting until everyone was vaccinated. You have a full public put full public interaction so we can ensure that this was competitively bid. The school superintendent says The referendum was supported by a large community group of parents and passed with 67% voter approval. Illinois Senate has approved a bill to create a 21 Person elected school board in Chicago. That bill now moves on to the Illinois House, where it's expected to be approved. Under the plan, 10 people will be elected to the school board in November. 2024 11 people would be appointed then by the mayor in 2026, all 21, members of the school board would be elected. There would also be a moratorium on school closings until Really 2025 mirror. Lightfoot initially supported an elected school board during the campaign for mayor, but she now opposes it. Chicago is the only school district in the state without an elected school board. For the first time since last July. There are no states under restrictions for Chicago's travel order. That means people visiting the city won't be required to quarantine or get a negative test, largely a symbolic move. The travel order was not officially enforced. Chicago's public health commissioner, Dr Allison are what he says. All four metric, used for traveling, tracking covert are down in Chicago, including hospitalizations, deaths, new cases and the positivity rate. The main good news is just that we're the best point that we've been from from Cove it since our outbreak began in March of 2020. There's more good news in Illinois state wide the state it's on track to lift all covert restrictions in nine days. Latest covert numbers include several major milestones. 401 new cases of the virus reported yesterday, the daily lowest daily count since March of last year. The 1.6% positivity rate and hospitalizations for covert related illness also at their lowest level since the start of the pandemic, and now we WGN community corners brought to you by Waubonsee Community College. Here's Auntie May's Chicago's Lincoln Park is known as the largest park in the city. But did you know that many of the trees, plants and fill material originally came from a forest preserve more than 20 miles away To accomplish this expansion, the city purchase 100 acres of land to establish a nursery and Lamont materials were loaded onto barges and sent to the city for the park's construction. The most prominent feature remaining from the former nursery is a large stone doorway bearing the inscription LPs 1921. Manny maser with community corners on 7 20 w GM and now with WGN sports Here's Dave. Innit? Good morning wasn't quite enough for the White Sox, but they hitting and base running and Billy handled in helping grab the league. Billy Hamilton gives us a ride to right field. Naylor's back. He is not gonna.
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"How about Paxton? Get Paxton and we'll get you a mug. A real one. That is real. You got it. So you get the we're gonna give you the WGN radio 7 20 mug, which is much coveted and awesome. And thank you for playing Kirk that was Syria. Awesome sport. Appreciate it. Thank you. Very merry Tell me something here. I mean, it's so weird. I the other the other what we can do this again. But it's just interesting to see these a little obscure Earl bright like pearl, but laughing at Hurlburt Mansion if you live on a girl, but I would I would act like I'm front and say her abuse. That's what you always do, right? I live in her robe. You? Yeah. I had a friend growing up. Her last name was cr AP It was pronounced crop from Yes. The bay Station cropping. Great, Really super. That was fun. Thank you guys for playing Mary. Thank you for the back up. There it is that I save these this list. I know. I know that comes in handy. Keep it handy. Okay, we'll play again. Thanks, Mayor. We have to talk about. We're talking Roger Romanelli coming up here on the show Because the city is trying to say you know all that outdoor dining you've seen you saw it last summer pop up in a lot of neighborhoods. They even shut down some streets and send the suburbs too. But thesis. He has new program to say, You know what? Let's try to make that more long term, if not permanent. Do you like the outdoor streets? Do you like what they've done? They're where they've sort of shut down some side streets. They've made areas that used to be traffic. Allowed for traffic now pedestrian on Lee there the city's offering grant money even for several neighborhoods to try to make some of that more permanent, and Roger Romanelli is going to update us on that. Coming up here. He is with the peace with the restaurant, the Chicago restaurant coalition. So Roger tells us what's going on there next year on WGN your.
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"Up 15 inches. Lakeview got about 14.5 Mayor Lightfoot yesterday, said Chicago restaurants and bars can expand their indoor dining to the lesser of 40% of capacity or 50 people. Roger Romanelli of the Chicago Restaurant Coalition says it's only fair. Restaurants he put on par with other local businesses. You know, when you have a bowling alley at 40% movie theaters
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"With delays and also Burlington North, C T. A Purple Line and yellow line remains suspended at Howard. They're Vandevelde, deputy in traffic. Central Governor Pritzker has declared a disaster proclamation for Illinois after a winter storm blanketed the state with snow and caused power outages to today's declaration means Illinois can tap additional state help and seek federal assistance. Parts of Chicago got up to a foot and a half of snow, forcing many covert testing and vaccination sites to close today. The weather also kept vaccines from being delivered. Dr Allison or would, he says there's been a two day delay in modern a vaccine shipment. She says Residents whose vaccine appointments were canceled today should not worry if you have an appointment at another location in Chicago, I encourage you to call them and talk to them about their vaccine supplies and plans. Unfortunately, most of our outpatient settings received Moderna vaccine, meaning most of them if they were scheduled to have vaccine. Appointments tomorrow will need to reschedule those as well. She says there should not be any scheduling issues within the city tomorrow. Chicago's restaurants and bars are celebrating after Mayor Lightfoot announced that indoor dining can be expanded to the lesser of 40% capacity or 50 people. But Roger Romanelli of the Chicago restaurant Coalition tells WGN's and Advantis that it's that his group would like better lines of communication with City Hall. We're pleased, however, We need to continue to move forward with the city, and the process has been very hard to get to this point. It's been very hard and it's been a new and more Challenging process. The coalition wants to increase dining capacity to 50% Joe Biden is making his first official trip outside the nation's capital is president She tries to refocus Congress and build public support for his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. He's hoping tonight CNN Town Hall in Milwaukee will help put the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the rear view mirror and move attention back to dealing with the pandemic. The BP is suing former President Trump for his personal look and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani over their efforts to block certification of November's presidential election. Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson filed the lawsuit after the Senate voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial. In America. We settle our differences at the ballot box. We don't have cools. We don't have riots. We all have anything that like occurred on January 6. The lawsuit accuses Trump Giuliani, the proud boys and the oath Keepers militia group of conspiring to incite the deadly attack at the U. S. Capitol on January. 6 WGN SPORTS Here's Kevin Powell went over Illinois would mark the first time in program history that Northwestern is B two top five opponents in a season. Line. I have won five straight there up to fifth in the rankings. Pregame at 7 45. Here on WGN tip off a date with David and Joey Meyer couple. Other games around the Big 10, Nebraska at Maryland, Michigan State visits per Do. Black Hawks Live airs tonight. Chris Boden and Nick gives money get going. In about an hour. Rookie defenseman Ian Mitchell joins the show at 7 15, Anthony Rizzo, Javi Bias and Kris Bryant among those on the Cubs roster entering the final year of of their contract. Comes exact. Jed Hoyer says any trade rumors this offseason were inaccurate. We're not engaged in anything and we haven't been for a bid. So you know, I don't know. I don't expect it. I guess it by the simplest way to say it, but you never know who knows what injury could happen or what Thing could change is in someone else's camp, but I'm not expecting it. I'm expecting that. For the most part. This is gonna be the group that we that we open up against Pittsburgh with pitchers and catchers report tomorrow for both the Cubs and White Sox. I'm Kevin Powell, w G and sports and now the WGN forecast. What level increases we become Mostly cloudy for our Wednesday and then there's a chance for some snow in the.
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"Postponed. I'll bring you more on that sports and in business winter weather sends energy stocks soaring WGN traffic Here's Mary Vandeveld and traffic is sponsored by coin flip Looks so much better is far is as more people on the roadways at this time. Lot less people. They're all at home. Digging out, but the roads are getting better summer not completely cleared off. Still some snow on them secondary roads, especially so you still need extra time. Eden's is in good shape on the Kennedy No major delays, even though they're still there, leaving the express lanes closed off because they're still clearing that snow Eisenhower heading out But on the 2 90 extension is still a mess heading out to 3 55 earlier accident at Easter Field now Is still being cleared, but at least they're opening some of the lanes. Thean bound trip is about 52 minutes in from 3 90 16 for Mannheim, also an accident. Mixed in at the tri state. The two left lanes. Stevenson is clear along with the Ryan cellphone 57 at I 80 and exit involving some cars in the ditch. And Bartlett an accident lake and route 59 also north bound 3 55 tub while the beast her field accident being clear, But you need Pacific. Northwest trains Union, Pacific West and North and Milwaukee West are all running with some delays due to switching problems. Burlington Northern Trains are still stopped at Cicero Freight train interference. Their coin flip is the world's leading Bitcoin A T M operator. Coin Flip makes buying Bitcoin so flipping easy Find your nearest coin. Flip it A T m at coin flip dot tech use promo code coin flip 2021 for 15% off fees on your first transaction. Our band belted BGN Traffic Central Good news for Chicago restaurants today. Mayor Life it announced that indoor dining can expand to the lesser of 40% capacity or 50 people effective immediately, Roger Romanelli of the Chicago Restaurant Coalition tells the beauty ends and a devil Entous..
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"In Chicago. Everybody this is is a kind of Ah moment with very challenging, but it's a moment. Help us understand. We're all connected. So if people out there who want to help restaurants Do well continued it stay say, follow the regulations. Make sure that You're not being you're responsible with any behavior wearing your masks and then hopefully by Mother's Day, you know people can go into the restaurants in a very safe way, hopefully will be upto a real high occupancy. And then we can all share in the new era of celebrating life. But being a little bit more safe than maybe we were in the past, you know, And I think this is a positive advancement not only for everybody But for the restaurants, too. Awesome stuff. What's good here and from you, Roger, and I'm glad that you got this sort of relief, maybe more around the corner. Who knows? Well will will keep a quick I will keep a close eye will keep you posted. And and thank you again. The WGN for having this issue and for supporting restaurants all throughout our city. Roger Romanelli appreciate the time Chicago restaurants dot org's is the website he's been talking about, and he's with the Chicago restaurant Coalition. It's a bottom of the hour time. So we're gonna get to the news from the North Western medicine newsroom, then the other side of this we talk about identity theft a lot on the show. So many people are victims of this, The better business bureau usually says, See, Bernice comes on and says It's not a matter of if, but when you'll be a victim. One way to prevent it is to better protect your phone, your laptop, all that stuff so that scammers cannot get your information. Our tech experts gonna help us out with that a little bit coming up on the other side of the.
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"Share the fax about the vax and bust some of the rumors, too. Here's a common myth. You only need one Cove in 19 vaccine dose, and that's False. You'll need two shots 3 to 4 weeks apart to get the most protection. Get the fax. It's all their visit Chicago that God's slash Co vid fax were in this together. Chicago. They want to talk about restaurants. Another announcement from the mayor. We just got one A few days ago, We talked to Roger Romanelli. Then now we're gonna talk to him again. He's with the Chicago Restaurant Coalition executive director director of the Fulton Market Association. Roger. How you doing today? Yes, I am doing very well this afternoon, Anna. Thank you for having me on the show. Thanks for being on. Hey, So it's good news. It's Ah, losing it up yet again. Where are we now? And are you happy with this or I'm sure you have with the direction things are going. But what would you say about what's being big announcement? Yes. Thank you. I am happy in the direction we're going, But I do think today's announcer was essential. You know, when you have bowling alleys at 40% movie theaters where people are eating and drinking, you've got to bring restaurants at least up to where the bowling alleys were. So I'm pleased with this announcement. The coalition and the restaurants participating. We're pleased. However, we need to continue to move forward with the city and Anna. The process has been very hard to get to this point. It's been very hard and it's been a new and more challenging process, which I'm happy to describe. Yeah, well, describe the force. What are you hearing from folks is I know you You're very much in touch with the restaurant community or hearing from folks. You guys talk to each other. What's the experience Been like, What's it like now? Yeah, well, for all your radio listeners, imagine your typical restaurant and your typical restaurant seats about 80 people. Okay, And so at 25%, which was yesterday, they could see it about 20 or so Now, today, they're up to 40% so they could see about 32 to 35. So we're not talking about that that much of a difference. Help these restaurants survive because once they opened the doors, they gotta pay heat, electricity and You know their employees, so it's like, you know, Once they open the doors, they really need to be able to see it more customers in a very safe way and and the other issue is to get 40% today, the mayor said. While the hospital beds have to be at a moderate rate, and the total citywide cases for covert after being a moderate, you know, we just don't agree that restaurants survival has to be linked out. The whole city is doing in terms of, you know, battling the covert virus. I mean, you're talking about Thinking restaurant operations to how many people how many new cases there are hospital beds. That's that's all brand new and we don't we don't agree. Yeah, I know that you don't And you've talked about the date on the show before. I wonder. Is this the results of your lobbying efforts or is this they surely kind of making these these decisions independent of that that they're loosening the restrictions now, is it? Is it purely on that data you just described Or they listening to you folks. Well, it's good question. You know, for all your listeners. Whenever Chicagoans come together, you can definitely have an impact on City Hall. And I think our coalition it's a brand new first time City of Chicago Coalition has brought people together all the restaurants. As opposed to them competing, but we do need more cooperation with City Hall. We want someone from the mayor staff to join our Monday calls at two o'clock, which everybody from the public is welcome to join. And you can get more information at our website in Chicago restaurants or g'kar, But Anna to your point. We do need more teamwork. We need more direct communication and you've got 36,000 city workers. None of them have been laid off. And that's we salute our city workers. We'd like to see a lot more of them on contact tracing right? So so we can We can know Clearly, our restaurant's doing. Are they bad actors are the good actors are their employees and customers get sick? Yes or no? That those of the facts that should be the measurement for weather restaurants can get up to 50% and so forth. We can't Thai restaurant survival tow whether There's hospitalizations for Cove. It that's that's unfair that punishes restaurants unfairly. Yeah. Hey, just before I let you go. Roger, Um, I want to ask you. How did the Valentine's Day weekend go? What did you hear about that? You know, a restaurants were packed in terms of what I heard they could not packed people enough. You know, people absolutely want to be safe. But we also want to celebrate life. So even though restaurants to a 25% they were where we're doing very well for 25%. They were able to accommodate a lot more. So now we're happy to see 40% and you know, we haven't heard of virus spread. We haven't been called by the city there any problems so I think everybody in the city is doing great. Remember? Restaurants have a lot of generations there. They don't want anybody to get sex, especially grand parents. You know, parents, so restaurants been doing a great job, but we think all of your listeners For helping to support the restaurant's whether it's eat in or take out. You know, we know times are tough, but we really appreciate everybody supporting the restaurant's. Now we did carry out for Valentine's Day. It was awfully nice. They just they're doing a good job constantly changing to fit every single environment. I'm finding they're serving a lot of family style meals. That's what we picked up. It's It's remarkable how they're figuring there, figuring this out. Thank you and thank you for supporting our restaurants. We think all your listeners you know, we have to remember. Restaurants are part of our neighborhoods and their places where we really special celebrate special moments in life, so Again, You know, restaurants are just integral to our cities, whole food industry and jobs. And so we thank everybody for supporting our local restaurants and again, you can learn more in Chicago restaurants dot Borg, please. Everybody should sign our citywide petition. All right, And it's a pivotal moment, isn't it? Because you look a winter's not necessarily a great time for restaurants. Right? So you've got the Valentine's Day holiday and I don't know.
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"Buy two bit con would be kind of hard, so that's a way to get exposure to some of these crypto currencies. I think ethereum is in there, too. But 70% of big point, But it's gonna track pretty close to Bitcoin. So you could buy that in your IRA, You're Your tradition. I mean, rock, you can buy it in any account s Oh, that's one way to get exposure again. G b T c you can on that. Great skill Bitcoin trust, you know, so that's 11 way to do it. I would also say be very careful because of the volatility. You know, you may okay. 5%. Of the portfolio tops. You know if you're gonna allocate something to it, that's where I would do it so it is accessible. Again. Be careful and then just allocate, maybe a small piece of it. I think one of the things that's becoming more mainstream. And maybe the fact of my mom's asking about it means that everybody knows about this Now. I just, You know, it's one of those things. Has it because more mainstream, though, and you hear banks and big companies like Tesla to, you know, getting into it, It starts to feel a Ziff. It's sort of Ah, you know a real investment to those people who just would never have considered it or just never even thought that this was something that we would go near. It scares me to death. But I just feel like now it's mainstream, and it sort of happened pretty quickly. Yeah, I would say I'd be a little careful. You know, I think there's so many. Some momentum there. Getting back to the volatility and so he tried to educate yourself as you go to good website Queen based that time read up on it. Learn as much as you can, but I think we have a long way to go. I think Eric, someone said, is that when you can start buying a hamburger with it You know, now it's mainstream, but I think we have to be a little careful. So yeah, it's It's interesting, So there's a lot of you know, we're talking about student loans earlier on the emotions. This criminal currency is definitely an emotional, uh, topic, but, uh, I'm not averse to people having some exposure to it. Just be careful and And if it goes up, that's great. I think again. There's a ways to go here. Yeah, well said Well said, And probably not a big party for your portfolio. I'm sure you'd agree. It would be a good idea. Um, thank you, Tom. For the thoughts today, I'm gonna continues in my debit card for hamburgers for the new factory. Even even after it's acceptable currency. I again scared to death of it. Thank you for the go ahead. Thank you. Nice. Let's check back with you in a month or so stiff. You on some Cryptocurrency. We'll see. We'll see where it goes. Tom and not sold yet, But thank you, for your thoughts is always prepared. Sound 14. Oh, there you too, Alfred. Wealth Group is who he's with. We're going to pause here for a moment and break and then talk to Roger Romanelli as restaurants get a little reprieve a little more. But I'm gonna guess Roger may not necessarily be satisfied with where things are going in the city announcement from the mayor, though we'll talk to him about it coming up. For you, Chief. If.
KTOK
"roger romanelli" Discussed on KTOK
"The jury at the second Trump impeachment trial, the House has had more time to keep writing up that nearly $2 trillion covert financial aid plans. Senate Majority Leader truck, Schumer says this week's impeachment trial of former President Trump is not slowing down efforts. The past the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief measure our committees as we speak. Both in the House and Senate are working on bold covert relief that the American people need. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants a bill done by the end of this month. That includes a $15 an hour minimum wage of provisions that could run afoul of Senate rules. Using the budget process to approve a plan without Republican support on Capitol Hill. Jared Halpern Fox News had a Valentine's Day this weekend. Some cities are easing dining restrictions like New York City, Portland, Oregon and Chicago. Chicago restaurants began expanding capacity yesterday, allowing up to 50 people per floor, or 25%, whichever is less as the city points to lower Corona virus cases, though the restaurant industry, says 25% Capacity isn't enough. We want to help the mayor. We want to help the city states safe, but we've got to save these restaurants from going out of business. It's a dire situation. Roger Romanelli with the Fulton Market Association in Chicago, argues that other businesses are allowed higher capacities, though for restaurants, the city says it would need to see three consecutive days with the average number of new cases below 400. Jeff Malone. Also Fox News. If you're going to get a tax refund this year, today is a big day you can now file the iris will start accepting 2020 returns about two weeks later than a year ago. On Wall Street, stock futures are falling. So are most markets overseas. The day after the NASDAQ and the S.
KSFO-AM
"roger romanelli" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"The second Trump impeachment trial, the House has had more time to keep writing up that nearly $2 trillion covert financial aid plans. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says this week's impeachment trial of former President Trump is not slowing down efforts. The past the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief measure our committees as we speak. Both in the House and Senate are working on bold covert relief that the American people need. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants a bill done by the end of this month. That includes a $15 an hour minimum wage of provisions that could run afoul of Senate rules. Using a budget process to approve a plan without Republican support on Capitol Hill. Jared Halpern Fox News had a Valentine's Day this weekend. Some cities are easing dining restrictions like New York City, Portland, Oregon and Chicago. Chicago restaurants began expanding capacity yesterday, allowing up to 50 people per floor, or 25%, whichever is less as the city points to lower Corona virus cases, though the restaurant industry, says 25% Capacity isn't enough. We want to help the mayor. We want to help the city states safe, but we've got to save these restaurants from going out of business. It's a dire situation. Roger Romanelli with the Fulton Market Association in Chicago, argues that other businesses are allowed higher capacities. So for restaurants, the city says it would need to see three consecutive days with the average number of new cases below 400. Jeff Mon. Also Fox News. If you're going to get a tax refund this year, today is a big day you can now file the iris will start accepting 2020 returns about two weeks later than a year ago. On Wall Street, stock futures are falling. So are most markets overseas. The day after the NASDAQ and the S and P 500 both rose to new record highs. Dave Anthony, this'd Fox News If someone wanted to make up the perfect example of why we should listen to chaos. Suppose Rush Limbaugh, they might create the following trouble is this really happened? I want to take you back to this program March 31st of last year we're in the midst of a lockdown and I am scared to death. This just can't go on. We cannot go on like this for months. We're going to destroy the country. I couldn't go on this way and yet New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, happily telling people that they can't go back to their businesses. Here's Andrew Cuomo Governor, New York Monday in all that, we simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine. It's critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left. Open. Oh, man, We must reopen the economy. But we must do it smartly and.
KNST AM 790
"roger romanelli" Discussed on KNST AM 790
"Offer. With the Senate. The jury at the second Trump impeachment trial, the House has had more time to keep writing up that nearly $2 trillion covert financial aid plans. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says this week's impeachment trial of former President Trump is not slowing down efforts. The past the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief measure our committees as we speak. Both in the House and Senate are working on bold covert relief that the American people need. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants a bill done by the end of this month. That includes a $15 an hour minimum wage, a provision that could run afoul of Senate rules. Using the budget process to approve a plan without Republican support on Capitol Hill. Jared Halpern Fox News had a Valentine's Day this weekend. Some cities are easing dining restrictions like New York City, Portland, Oregon and Chicago. Chicago restaurants began expanding capacity yesterday, allowing up to 50 people per floor, or 25%, whichever is less as the city points to lower Corona virus cases, though the restaurant industry, says 25% Capacity isn't enough Want to help the mayor? We want to help the city states safe, but we've got to save these restaurants from going out of business. It's a dire situation. Roger Romanelli with the Folding Market Association in Chicago, argues that other businesses are allowed higher capacities, though for restaurants, the city says it would need to see three consecutive days with the average number of new cases below 400. Jeff Mama, So Fox News If you're going to get a tax refund this year, today is a big day you can now file the iris will start accepting 2020 returns about two weeks later than a year ago. On Wall Street. Stock futures are falling. So are most markets overseas. The day after the NASDAQ and the S and.
WGN Radio
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"In business a lot of confidence surrounding a new covert stimulus package. A beauty and perfect Here's Mary Vandeveld way Too many accidents on the roadways once again with the snow, but the biggest ones 80 94 westbound at bird. Two left lanes are blocked with that. Also, emergency road work is continuing eastbound on I 80 causing big delays Its center, the right lane is blacked in a Naperville route. 59 closed off already and parkway with a bad accident there. Otherwise travel times. Just going up on all the expressways is expected 45 in from O'Hare, 30 from the Eaton's 38 out to the airport. Eisenhower is about 50 minutes out to 3 90 52 coming in on the Stevenson 38 out to the tri state and about 52 out 23 55 already about 55 inbound as well from 3 55 Dan Ryan is actually In pretty good shape, along with the bishop for it, and 57, also in the north side of Dearborn, in North Avenue and accident and in Bensenville at York and Jefferson. Her band about the B G on traffic. Central Valentine's Day is just days away, which is generally a big day for restaurants. The Chicago Restaurants coalition is asking their Lightfoot and the Full City Council to allow restaurants to boost indoor dining to 50% capacity in time for the holiday weekend. Roger Romanelli is coalition coordinators. It's evidence by the city Chicago's own data that shows that most of the restaurants have not been fined or closed. And that there is not a significant statistical link between restaurant operations and co bedspread. Romanelli pointed out that bowling alleys in movie theaters are operating at 40%.
WGN Radio
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"Schools who spent another day learning from home because CPS and Chicago teachers union can agree on a return to the classroom that was scheduled for today for kindergarten through eighth grade students. Both sides in negotiations have agreed on four of 10 critical covert safety issues, CBS CEO Janice Jackson says even though students will not come back to class today, all teachers without accommodations are expected to return teachers and staff that we failed to report to school. We'll have their access to Google sweets cut off at the end of the business day. The union's Jesse Sharkey has previously said that lockout would trigger a strike. If they do lock us out. The next step is going to be for us to collar house of delegates and take a decision about what comes next. The CPS and CTU said last night they do plan to continue talks. The Chicago area is digging out after several inches of snow blanketed the city this weekend. The region's Bernard some lt is in the North Center neighborhood job. Pulaski and his body's making the most of all this on Sunday, like never campfire on their block to keep warm. We're hanging out trying to enjoy what we can. With the blizzard going on. It wasn't old fun and games, the crew's springing into action several times to help stranded motorists. Totally way saw dugout on the Amazon. Yeah, there were two Amazon van stuck right over here. And my my friends here with their shovels and muscles were able to get him free. More than 300 City plows got the major arteries cleared. It'll take several days to get the last of the residential streets back to normal. A couple in their eighties was found dead last night in a house fire in northwest suburban in furnace by officials say the fire started in the back of the house just before five. Neighbors say the victims lived in the house for more than 30 years. They call it a tragic loss for the neighborhood. The cost of the fire is under investigation. Illinois health officials report over 2400 new covert 19 cases and 40 deaths yesterday, the seven day positivity right has now fallen to 3.9%. Chicago reentering face four of the state's covert 19 restrictions. This means retailers, salons and indoor recreation facilities like bowling alleys can all be opened at 40% capacity. Indoor service at bars can start again. But capacity is still captain 25% alcohol cannot be served after 11 and indoor table service must stop at midnight. Restaurant owners say these are incremental changes that are necessary for their business. Roger Romanelli is with the Fulton Market Association. Restaurants want to work to get beyond the 25% or 25 people, Because right.
WGN Radio
"roger romanelli" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Can be accessed by calling 1 800 gambler 1 804 to 6 to 537. Let's chat with Lauren shorts just few minutes ago, she's former head of White House special events in the Clinton administration. Her book, eat, Drink and succeed and Forgot to tell you that, um Roger Romanelli is joining us and Roger You are the with Chicago restaurant Coalition that newly formed coalition to try to Advocate for the restaurants to get reopened again. You're also with the executive director of the Fulton Market Association there, you know, it's interesting. Last time you talked to us. I don't know, week ago. You know, you said what we're going to. We're gonna We're gonna talk to the mayor. And we're going to convince the mayor to convince the governor to get some sort of indoor dining and do it soon. And sure enough, it wasn't But one or two days later, I thought when you get off, I'm not kidding, right? Roger? I said, Well, okay. All right, good luck. And then all of a sudden the headline started coming and I'm like this could really be happening. It looks like it. How's it look to you? And I really appreciate you giving us an opportunity to talk about this issue. I really do. I do think that our group had an impact. Know what it looks like The US is It looks like the governor adjusted one of the One of the parameters you're late to the hospital beds or hospital bed use in order to try to get Chicago into our dining to be restored and make the requirements more reasonable. So I definitely think I think we had an impact there, but certainly we're not. We're not resting on any Rushing on any world right now We're going forward to continue to make sure that indoor dining opens that it's cooperative and that we don't get shut down again. Okay. So what? What are you hearing? Because when I When I look at the sort of the media landscape they're saying within days, it looks promising. It looks like it's happening. Maybe even by this weekend. We should sweet could see some sort of indoor dining in restaurants. Is that the kind of time line you're you're thinking. Yeah, I'll tell you exactly what I know and what we're doing. I just emailed the mayor's staff who we had two conference calls with in December. I asked the mayor staff please let us know what date you might be expecting what the status of this is because restaurants need advanced time You could imagine, right. They've got to talk to their suppliers. They've gotta get their employees back, so the restaurant's really do need some lead time. We haven't heard back from the mayor's staff, but we certainly hope they'll respond. We hope we have another call. Um, I'm seeing the same thing that you're saying. I'm looking at an article right now. It's Chicago dog eater dot com and I'm looking at that. Look, they're thinking any day now. One thing that is very encouraging. I'm looking on the city's website the positivity rate in the city of 7.7%. Right. And so what? Our understanding is that Before at below 8%. Or an extended period of time, then Chicago can go two tier one. And then indoor dining can resume. At 6.5%. Indoor dining can happen more frequently, or there could be more more in their dining allowed, but and I think you're right. I think we're on. We could be on the cusp of something very good right here, but we don't have a specific date. Frankly, my eyes kind of glaze over When I hear Tier one face to all those I lose track of what All that means, and I've seen charts for sports. I've seen charts for restaurants, but at the end of the day, I just feel that there's a real sense that there's some sort of immediate or very short term kind of resolution to this that there will be endured Dining Would that be 20% or what would be the capacities? What would be the new rules moving forward? Right. And what we're hearing is 25% and other regions right in other regions of the state, apparently in Carbondale, Springfield Champaign. They're letting restaurants I believe right now already. Go to 25% capacity, which is, you know, we we talked about 20% because that's what the university study said. But certainly we welcome 25%. The other issue we're in the governor is he only wants four people to sit around the table. S so we'll have to bet that we're having a Chicago restaurants. Coalition Zoom called tomorrow with our members were still encouraging. Everyone around Chicago loves restaurants. Go sign our citywide petition in Chicago Restaurant start ord. We've already gotten about 400 signatures. We've got voters and restaurants all around the city. So to respond your point and it looks like 25% maybe seating tables at four. But I think that The critical issue. Anna is we cannot. We have to have government participation with restaurants if covert spikes again. I've got to talk to our restaurant. We can't just shut them down again. Restaurant can't be seen as a scapegoat to solve the city's whole covert crisis. You talked about that you pointed to the data, and you said that cheer you well, from what you've seen and what you've been able to assemble that it doesn't seem as if you can trace really a lot of cases back. Tell us that information again. Again. It's definitive. In our view, you can't because we made a freedom of information request to the City Health Department. So without getting too many numbers for all your radio listeners,.
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"That's cars with a K. I want to talk about something going on right now. With the restaurant community. There's a new coalition formed the Chicago restaurant Coalition with E. Major major idea here is that they would like to see the restaurant's open. They think it's time they'd like to appeal to the mayor and governor. Please open things up, at least in some capacity. Let's learn a little more. About what what it is. They're trying to do and how successful they are doing it so far. This is Roger Romanelli. How you doing? Roger. Good hearing from you. And a great hearing from you. Thanks for having the time. Of course. I've been hearing from you throughout this and there've been so many struggles within your community. I hear I hear you Now, when you say that Look, we were past the holidays. It's been what 12 days of January. Now guess things. They're sort of moving in the right direction. And you'd like to reopen. Tell us about this, this press and what it is you're doing and how it's being received so far. Absolutely. And we think every WGN lists and are supporting restaurants over the years and we hope to have you back indoor dining real soon. The bottom line. And is this The mayor's telling us That the governor Is holding back our restaurants because the governor wants Chicago to get down to a 6.5% positivity. Right? Right. Got that. We're a 10.2 Inch city. I believe right now. That's right. We're a 10.2 today. The mayor says the governor wants 6.5. Now we're asking the mayor today. These go challenge the governor. We cannot put the entire weight and burden of covert and are all city. Are 7000 restaurants. We can't discriminate against restaurants. And blame him for a problem that they didn't cause. And there's no evidence in Chicago. It identifies the restaurants. Spreading this virus in a significant way. I know you've come on and talk about the data quite a bit. The Northwestern University study of cited that the Department of Health here in Chicago, their own their own data that just doesn't seem to link back to restaurants when it comes to these spreader. Events, you know? So what is it you're asking Do you want you want 20% capacity is is that he asked here. Yeah, they ask is very similar. The university studies said restaurants a 20% can be very safe. So what we're saying now is look Friday, January 29 should be the date to get restaurants to 20% indoor dining. You can't do outdoor dining anymore because it's freezing outside. They're all competing against each other for take out and delivery. And all the restaurants are losing together. And then we're seeing Indoor dining in all these suburbs around the city. And these restaurants. Taken away business. That would normally go to our Chicago restaurants. It's just It's very unfair right now, and we need to get that 20% indoor dining by Friday, January 29th You're saying about two weeks. You'd like to see that happen. It seems like a reasonable request. It seems that the restaurant community here in Chicago at large has been very responsible about creating safe environments. You've had some out liars. You've had some folks, but in general, I hear you When you say that we've been trained for this. We have to take health and safety training. We know how to do this. And so you sort of have that. Already in your background. I just I wonder what is the stopper with the governor and the mayor? What are they saying? At this point in terms of hearing your ask and saying will grant it As of last week, the mayor staff emailed us. They told us everybody's gotta wait until it's 6.5%. We said, What date do you think you have in mind? He said. There is no date. So we decided we need to force the question and Hannah Here's the Next piece of it. If the governor Will not agree with the mayor in the aldermen that we've got to get into our dining to 20%. At least But these restaurants Make enough money to pay basic bills. Then we need the mayor. Start coordinating a state wide effort of all mayors. Sit down and negotiate with the governor. The mayor's on this group called the Metropolitan Makers Mayor's Caucus. Hey, with a third largest city in America. If the governor won't come to the table, we need the mayor to coordinate a statewide effort of mayors. Mm. It'll be interesting to see what happens there. I just have a few seconds left Roger, but I do want to ask you about this. I'm sure you saw Governor Cuomo's tweet yesterday that set off a firestorm among small business owners and restaurant owners alike. We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high, he said. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy. A lot of folks looked at that and said Hey, Where have you been? Governor? We've been trying to that. That's exactly what we've been trying to advocate for for all along, but he certainly seems like a reversal in course. For the governor of New York. Yeah, the governor of New York his hair of very checkered record with dealing with the covert crisis. And so we're focused here on Governor Pritzker and the mayor and what we're saying to the governor and the mayor is If you don't have dad up. That that collect that shows that the restaurants are causing a problem. You've got to let them open up. And the other piece and a real quickly is we've got all these illegal parties going on. People want to get together. If we can get restaurants, a 20%. We can have safe gatherings, managers and employees can make sure everybody following the rules. And we can stop the spread. Restaurants can be part of the solution to stop describe. I hear you, Roger and I always appreciate you coming on and keeping us posted. Okay, Keep us continue to do that for us, okay? Thank you And I have a great day You two That's Roger Romanelli Chicago Restaurant Coalition, newly formed coalition. In.