John Laplante, Extended Stay America s new Chief Information Officer, also joins the company from G6 Hospitality, where he served as CIO and in other IT leadership roles for more than 10 years. John s experience includes nine years in Hospitality IT at Accor North America. He will be responsible for all technology-related functions.
On April 13, 1992, an underground tunnel wall failed, causing dozens of office building basements to flood and forcing the evacuation of thousands of downtown office workers.
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If there was a single day when the devastating effects of the novel coronavirus were first seen in Chicago, it was March 12.
But, in reality, COVID-19 had been circulating far and wide for weeks, infecting hundreds if not thousands. Now, the worsening symptoms of those infected were showing up in the region’s soon-to-be beleaguered hospitals, a collaboration between the Chicago Sun-Times and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation’s Documenting COVID-19 project found.
The first confirmed death of a COVID-19 patient in Cook County didn’t occur until March 16. But a review of hundreds of pages of investigative records from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, including patient files for those who never were tested for COVID-19, revealed how the virus had already torn through nursing homes, jumped between family members returning home from travel and, in many examples, spread in hospitals to staff and patients seeking care for other reasons.