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July 8th, 2021:
Chi Key: Convenience & Discounts - Amazon, Allied Metal & Again Auto - Renewables vs Fossil Fuels - Fermi Lab: "a viable quantum internet" Eater Chicago's "Hot New Restaurants" - Employee Retention Tax Credits
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GET YOUR KEY TO THE CITY...
The ChiCityKey is a free, optional, and multi-use government-issued ID card. It serves as a Chicago Public Library Card, a Chicago Transit Authority Ventra Card, and a Chicago Rx prescription drug discount card, for starters. But, there's more! CityKey holders also get other discounts and benefits. Click on the headings to learn more.
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Enter Amazon, Exit Again Auto & Allied Metal |
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By the end of 2022, the vast auto parts lot at 4400 W. Division Street will fill with vehicles of a different sort. The lot, owned by now-closed Again Auto, will be a 140,000-square-foot distribution center for mega-online retailer Amazon.
from left to right
the late Marvin Fink- Chairman of the Board,
Joel Fink - President & CEO, and
Mike Gilford, Director of Operations
In December 2023, neighboring Allied Metal Company will close its doors at 4528 W. Division Street. Joel Fink, Allied's President and CEO, said the fourth-generation family-owned company has long-established ties to Chicago and the West Side and added the company is actively exploring other locations for Allied's Chicago operations.
Established in 1952, the company produces aluminum and zinc alloys. It is a major supplier to die casting and foundry operations that serve the appliance, automotive, electronics, furniture, hardware, housewares, sporting goods, and toy industries. The company operates a second plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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“We are entering a new epoch, comparable to the industrial revolution,” said Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker’s lead strategist and the report’s author. “Energy will tumble in price and become available to millions more, particularly in low-income countries. Geopolitics will be transformed as nations are freed from expensive imports of coal, oil and gas.”
How Renewables Could Kill Off Fossil Fuel Electricity By 2035: New Report
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"A viable quantum internet—a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement—would transform the fields of data storage, precision sensing and computing, ushering in a new era of communication."
Researchers achieve sustained,
high-fidelity quantum teleportation
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Chicago - December 2020
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Eater Chicago's updated its list of restaurants scattered across the City from north to south, east to west. They run the gamut from fine dining to burgers and hot dogs - with many businesses still facing labor issues, amp up your patience and just enjoy...
The Hottest New Restaurants in Chicago, July 2021
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Small Business Tax Credit Programs
The American Rescue Plan extends a number of critical tax benefits, particularly the Employee Retention Credit and Paid Leave Credit, to small businesses.
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