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Las 10 canciones más populares de la semana
Por The Associated Press
Las 10 canciones más populares de la semana en algunos países de las Américas y España.
ARGENTINA
1.- “Mejor que vos” – Lali & Miranda!
2.- “Pa’ qué volviste?” – Elena Rose, Maria Becerra
3.- “Luck Ra: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 61” – Bizarrap, Luck Ra
4.- “Olvidarte” – Gordo, Emilia
5.- “La policía” – Morat
6.- “Hoy no me siento bien” – Alejandro Sanz, Grupo Frontera
7.- “Amor de vago” – La T y la M, Malandro
8.- “La reina” – Lola Índigo, Maria Becerra, Villano Antillano
9.- “Amuleto” – Diego Torres
10.- “El cielo” – Tini
(Fuente: Los 40 Principales)
CHILE
1.- “Ponte lokita” – Katteyes, Kidd Voodoo
2.- “APT.” – Rosé, Bruno Mars
3.- “Degenere” – Myke Towers, Benny Blanco
4.- “Voy a llevarte pa PR” – Bad Bunny
5.- “A 200” – King Savagge, Jairo Vera, Bayron Fire
6.- “Mi refe” – Beéle, Ovy On The Drums
7.- “Soltera” – Shakira
8.- “Uwaie” – Kapo
9.- “Whisky a la roca” – Jere Klein, Swift 047, Kidd Voodoo
10.- “DTMF” – Bad Bunny
(Fuente: Los 40 Principales)
COLOMBIA
1.- “Mi refe” – Beéle, Ovy On The Drums
2.- “Vitamina” – Jombriel, DFZM
3.- “DTMF” – Bad Bunny
4.- “La plena” – Beéle, WSound, Ovy On The Drums
5.- “+57” – Karol G, Feid, DFZM, Ovy On The Drums, J Balvin, Maluma, Ryan Castro, Blessd
6.- “Imagínate”- Danny Ocean, Kapo
7.- “FDSR” – Ryan Castro, Maisak
8.- “NuevaYol” – Bad Bunny
9.- “Frente al mar” – Beéle
10.- “Se me olvida” – Feid, Maisak
(Fuente: Los 40 Principales)
ESPAÑA
1.- “Te confieso” – DePol
2.- “APT.” – Rosé, Bruno Mars
3.- “Cosas pendientes” – Maluma
4.- “Messy” – Lola Young
5.- “That’s so true” – Gracie Abrams
6.- “Capaz (Merenguetón)” – Yorghaki & Alleh
7.- “Gran Vía” – Quevedo, Aitana
8.- “We pray (Tini version)” – Coldplay, Little Simz, Elyanna, Tini, Burna Boy
7.- “Mi refe” – Beéle, Ovy On The Drums
10.- “Die with a Smile” – Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars
MÉXICO
1.- “Anxiety” – Doechii
2.- “DTMF” – Bad Bunny
3.- “Die with a Smile” – Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars
4.- “Hoy no me siento bien” – Alejandro Sanz, Grupo Frontera
5.- “Soltera” – Shakira
6.- “Un beso menos” – Elena Rose, Morat
7.- “Érase una bestia” – José Madero
8.- “En otra vida” – Yami Safdie, Lasso, Carín León
9.- “Birds of a Feather” – Billie Eilish
10.- “Q.E.P.D.” – Gloria Trevi
(Fuente: Los 40 Principales)
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Aurora City Council to consider proposal for QuikTrip gas station
The Aurora City Council is set to consider at its meeting next week a proposal to build a QuikTrip gas station on Eola Road near Interstate 88.
The gas station would be located on the southeast corner of Eola Road and Diehl Road, which is across the street from the CyrusOne data center and a short ways away from Metea Valley High School. It is expected to hold 16 gas fueling spots and four diesel fueling spots, two of which can accommodate tractor trailers.
Those two tractor-trailer-ready diesel fueling stations would make this gas station count as a truck stop under Aurora city ordinances, but the facility wouldn’t have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
Plus, overnight parking would be banned.
“It’s part of our name, QuikTrip,” said Ali Bukhres, a company representative who presented the proposal to the Aurora City Council’s Committee of the Whole on Tuesday. “Just come in, make it a quick trip: grab your food, drink and then head on the road.”
In addition to items typically available at a convenience store, including beer and wine, made-to-order food items like sandwiches and tacos would also be available for grab-and-go purchases, according to Bukhres’ presentation.
In-house secret shoppers would make sure the store is held to QuikTrip’s “very rigorous” alcohol sale standards, he said.
Both Bukhres and city staff said that the new gas station would not increase traffic in the area. Plus, truck traffic from I-88 would be minimal because of the gas station’s low visibility from the interstate as well as similar offerings in the area, Bukhres said.
“We’re not a traffic generator, we’re a traffic capturer. That’s why we chose this site,” he said.
The site would have a number of different entrances, including a full access entrance on Diehl Road, a right-in and right-out entrance also on Diehl Road but close to its intersection with Eola Road and a right-in only entrance on Eola Road.
A report included with the meeting’s agenda said city staff believe the location is “highly favorable” for this use since it is positioned along major streets and is in a predominantly non-residential area.
The site is also accessible to property owners along Eola Road as well as the customers and employees of the industrial area along Diehl Road, according to the staff report.
Plus, since it is close to I-88, it would be an “ideal stop” for those coming and going to the highway, which would ensure “steady traffic flow and a broad customer base,” the report said.
During his presentation, Bukhres touted QuikTrip as a socially responsible company that is dedicated to its employees and sensitive to environmental concerns. For example, he said the company only uses double-walled fuel holding tanks with multiple sensors, above and beyond what is legally required.
The company also donates 5% of its profits to charitable organizations within local communities it operates in and is a National Safe Place location for youth in danger, he said.
Employees are retained long-term and internally promoted, Bukhres said, and even the CEO started out by working in one of the company’s stores. QuikTrip also offers tuition assistance, disaster relief, scholarship and stock ownership programs, he said.
Two items related to the gas station are set to go before the Aurora City Council at its meeting next Tuesday.
One, an ordinance, would grant the gas station a conditional use permit. The other, a resolution, would approve a change to the underlying plan for the lot to include the new gas station.
rsmith@chicagotribune.com
Trial opens for suburban men charged in beating at Mount Greenwood pizza place
Nicholas Barraco, then owner and manager of a Mount Greenwood pizza place, was working a Saturday evening shift last summer when he said he tried to kick out a rowdy and intoxicated group of men.
That night, June 22, was his last night of work. He was hit on the head, he said, and woke up days later in a hospital with a cracked skull, the beginning of a long and incomplete recovery.
Barraco took the stand on Thursday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, accusing four suburban men of violently attacking him and other workers, as well as a patron who was an off-duty Chicago police officer, outside Barraco’s Ristorante in the 3000 block of West 111th Street.
The brawl at the Far Southwest Side restaurant ignited outrage in the neighborhood, where community members subsequently held a vigil for Barraco, who suffered a brain bleed. A bench trial opened Thursday to a packed courtroom.
Andrew Fedyk, of La Grange Park, Frank Paris, of River Forest, Harry Kenny, of Glen Ellyn, and John Powers IV, of Oak Park are facing multiple felony counts of aggravated battery, accused of injuring Barraco and others, including an off-duty Chicago police officer. The men were 20 at the time, drinking underage at the restaurant.
“They were swearing,” Barraco testified. “They didn’t want to leave.”
The men elected to have their case heard by Cook County Judge Ursula Walowski rather than by a jury. In suits and ties, they watched the proceedings from a packed defense table.
Their attorneys argued that the restaurant staff escalated the situation, painting the workers as the aggressors who improperly served them alcohol and wanted to teach the younger men a lesson.
“The young boys acted as young boys and the adults also acted as young boys,” said attorney Todd Pugh, who represents Kenny.
Prosecutors showed video of the confrontation, which was captured on business surveillance cameras as well as by cell phone footage shot by a passerby.
Ricky Velarde, a 46-year-old manager at Barraco’s, told the judge that as he tried to kick out the group, he got pulled out onto the sidewalk. They taunted him and others, he said, yelling, “Come on, big boy.”
Velarde said they took a hat from a patron, then jumped him when he tried to retrieve it.
“I saw stars,” Velarde said. “I fell to the ground.”
He grew tearful when he testified that he also saw Barraco fall.
“Sorry,” Velarde said. “Nick is like my father.”