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National parks are closing their gates due to long lines of tourists and overcrowding, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Arches National Park has been temporarily closing its gates before 9 a.m. on some days because of the influx of visitors. As a result, visitors are waiting in their cars for hours to enter the park or are being told to come back later.

"The boom in visits to national and state parks — largely attributed to a widespread desire to leave home as the pandemic eases — began when most reopened last summer," the news outlet reports.

Chicago hotels and union leaders have "forged a compromise" on an ordinance that requires hotels in the city to rehire employees who were laid off during the pandemic, the Chicago Sun Times reports.

The compromise was approved by the City Council Committee on Workforce Development after testimony from fired hotel employees.

Under the approved ordinance, workers will have five days to decide if they want to accept a return-to-work offer.

Hotels are offering some perks to guests during Pride Month, and business is picking up from events around it, as hoteliers seek to remind guests of their diversity and inclusion policies, HNN's Danielle Hess writes.

Eric Lemaire, general manager at the Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, said via email that the hotel invites guests to support the local LGBTQ community through "support activations" at every step of the guest journey.

These activations include opportunities for guests to donate to the Los Angeles LGBT Center and have those donations matched by the hotel.

To show support of the LGBTQ community, Jamison DeTrolio, regional director of sales and marketing for West Hollywood Hotels Collection, said hotels need to fully commit.

"If you plan to show support to the LGBTQ community during Pride Month, you should also show support all year long," he said. "It doesn't appear authentic if you only post a rainbow during Pride Month and then show no other support the rest of the year."

Federal Reserve officials have gathered for a two-day meeting to discuss changing policies set during the pandemic as the economy recovers, The Wall Street Journal reports.

"The Fed on Wednesday is likely to say after the meeting that it will maintain short-term interest rates near zero and keep buying at least $120 billion a month of Treasury and mortgage bonds. The central bank will also release individual policymakers’ updated quarterly economic projections," the news outlet writes.

Programs to house homeless in hotels will be ending soon in New York City, and both hoteliers and homeless advocates say it's ending too soon, Curbed reports.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will soon start moving homeless people back to shelters, and that housing the homeless in hotels was "never meant to be a long-term thing."

With international tourism still not back in the city and the conference circuit in limbo, business is down for hotels.

"Owners also say that the realities of the market require them to do expensive, monthslong, top-to-bottom renovations where homeless people lived, in order to remove any stigma that might discourage future guests. Many are now staring down a future with no government support, no customers and potentially millions in new renovation debt," the news outlet writes.