TV v. TRUMP
■ The Jimmy Kimmel effect—by the numbers—on Republicans’ effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act.
■ CNN is refusing to run a Trump 2020 campaign ad that complains about “fake news.”
■ Eric Zorn in the Tribune: It’s not campus radicals but “President Donald Trump and the GOP who are the true threats to American liberty.”
■ Jonathan Swan in Axios: “Trump instinctively understands the reporter’s psychology.”
■ Trump stayed up late to tweet about Hillary Clinton.
■ FBI Director James Comey has been testifying to the Senate today about Russia and the elections. Video here.
‘WHAT DID THEY DO TO … HELP THESE CHILDREN?’ A judge has condemned Illinois caseworkers who missed signs of trouble in visits to the pest-infested home where a 1-year-old girl’s body was found under a couch.
■ Businessman Ron Gidwitz—Illinois’ biggest Trump fundraiser—gets grilled in court over his longtime ownership of a troubled housing project where a little girl died.
■ The Onion: “Report: Cost Of Raising Neglected Children Still Low As Ever.”
■ The CTA wants your ideas for the Brown Line’s new Belmont flyover.
TASTE OF CHICAGO LINEUP. The full music schedule’s been revealed.
■ Tickets for the good seats on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
REPUBLICANS’ HEALTH CARE QUANDARY. CNN: They hate Obamacare, but they can’t bear to kill all of it.
■ Modern Healthcare: Healthcare lobbyists are straining to block the Republicans’ repeal plan.
■ Consumer Reports: The Affordable Care Act drove down personal bankruptcy filings.
■ A pro-labor coalition complains Gov. Rauner would pocket millions under the Republicans’ Obamacare overhaul.
■ Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who’s compared marijuana to heroin, can’t get Congress to give him money to fight states that have legalized pot.
■ Illinois manufacturers warn the state’s job losses are nearing a critical stage.
■ Over objections employers could pressure workers to take the cheap option, the U.S. House is sending the Senate a plan to let private-sector employees trade overtime pay for compensatory time off. (Photo: Dan Zak on Twitter.)
YOU’RE GETTING WARMER.
■ As the Arctic thaws, new shipping routes may open over the North Pole.
■ Flooding closed Naperville’s Riverwalk and some streets yesterday.
WORD OF THE DAY. “Highbinder.” You’ll need it to decode Jack Shafer’s Politico piece, “All the President’s Mice.”
■ Slate: How to tell who’s leaking what in the Trump administration.
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CORRECTION. Detail-oriented reader Art Belanger caught an extra preposition in yesterday’s edition of Chicago Public Square. You can see your name here if you’re the first to spot a goof—no matter how trivial. (We love trivial.) So open every issue as soon as you get it. Email daerfoorp@ChicagoPublicSquare.com.