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Frank Leo of Palatine writes about my recent series on hazardous materials releases involving trains.
"When you listed the series of hazardous chemicals, you listed many volatile fuels and solvents, as well as acids," Leo wrote. "Although all these chemicals are dangerous... there are two acids that are particularly dangerous -- sulfuric acid and hydrofluoric acid. I think that there should be special safeguards built in the tank wagons particularly designed to limit the spills of the chemicals they carry."
To set the record straight from last week's 2015 predictions column, UIC transportation expert Steve Schlickman forecasts that "the state under the leadership of Gov. Rauner will for the first time since the Gov. (Jim) Thompson administration enact a new multiyear multibillion transportation capital bill as the old one, Illinois Jobs Now, ends. Since Thompson we have only had a new five-year transportation bill every 10 years," Schlickman said.
"Gov. Ryan led the enactment of such a bill 10 years after Thompson did with a five-year lapse from the end of the Thompson programs. (Gov. Pat) Quinn did the same approximately 10 years after Ryan with a five-year lapse."
Seems like everyone's got a committee about noisy planes these days. At 7 p.m. Feb. 12, State Rep. Marty Moylan, a Des Plaines Democrat, holds his first O'Hare Airport Noise Advisory Committee meeting at Park Ridge city hall, 505 Butler Place. To find out more, call |||PHONE_NUMBER|||  or email |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| 
The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis and its economic impacts have not spared the senior demographic in the United States, as a new survey conducted by American Advisors Group (AAG) indicates that an increasing share of older Americans are planning to work far beyond a conventional retirement age.
With a respondent pool of 1,500 seniors between the ages of 60 and 75, AAG’s Post-2020 Retirement Survey reveals that surprisingly widespread numbers of seniors are pushing their retirement dates further and further back, while others are planning to work for the rest of their lives. 18% of respondents said they plan to work past the age of 70, while an additional 12% said they do not plan to ever stop working a full-time schedule.
Nearly half of the respondents (46%) are no longer anticipating that they will have a work-free retirement, instead saying that they plan on working part-time or picking up a side job in later life to continue having an income. This may lead some to conclude that one of the primary financial stresses of an older American is their costs relating to housing, but nearly half of respondents (47%) instead say that they live in a home that is paid off and mortgage-free.
The survey also asked respondents to rank a series of choices related to potential solutions to improve a later-life financial situation, saying that the top two preferences were “creating an emergency fund” and “filing for an income tax refund,” respectively. 30% of seniors responded in the affirmative when asked if the tumultuous economic events of 2020 impacted them financially, while 21% of respondents said that the events of last year caused them to withdraw from retirement accounts or savings earlier than planned.
This naturally creates a perception of additional pressure on the construct of American retirement, Lenoir says.
Read the results of the survey at AAG’s dedicated website for its findings.
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