‘VEHICULAR TERRORISM.’ One of Chicago’s most influential aldermen is calling for creation of a task force to prevent the use of trucks to mow down pedestrians.
■ Within minutes last night, Roscoe Village residents suffered two carjackings.
■ After the bombing in New York’s subway Monday, Chicago police have stepped up security around the city’s transit stations.
■ Trevor Noah in New York last night on The Daily Show: “This was maybe the fifth-worst thing that someone did on the subway today.”
‘ONE OF OUR ATTORNEYS IS A JEW.’ That's Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s wife last night, responding to what she described as “fake news” suggestions that “we don’t care for Jews.”
■ New York magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi’s account of Moore’s “weird” final rally before today’s election in Alabama: “Have you ever traveled down a dirt path in rural southeast Alabama in December and arrived at a barn in the woods to find Steve Bannon, … Roy and Kayla Moore, a woman performing an interpretive dance in front of a tree, and several inflatable alligators?”
■ And “speaker after speaker attacked ‘the media.’”
■ Shaun King for The Intercept: “The president and the GOP are backing a flagrant bigot for U.S. Senate.”
■ The Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet: What to know as the returns roll in.
■ Updating coverage into the night from AL.com.
BIPARTISANSHIP. Illinois’ Republican governor, Bruce Rauner, is joining his Democratic challenger, Chris Kennedy, in calling for Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios to quit.
■ A Sun-Times editorial: “What’s going on is pure politics. … But it is also … excellent public policy. Keep it up!”
MALL SALE. One of the world’s biggest operators of shopping malls, Australia-based Westfield—owner of the Chicago area’s Old Orchard, as well as New York’s World Trade Center mall—is selling itself to a European company.
■ Management consultant Peter Cohan: Amazon’s shifted pricing power to consumers, making the Federal Reserve’s power to manage inflation irrelevant.
SPACE RACE. The Tribune’s Robert Reed examines competing boasts from SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Chicago-based Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg about which of their companies will be first to reach the red planet.
■ President Trump’s directing NASA to send astronauts back to the moon, and then to Mars.
■ A list of “eyewitnesses” the White House says exonerate Trump of sexual harassment and assault “consists of two women who don’t even claim to be eyewitnesses and a British man with … a documented history of deception.”
■ BuzzFeed documents efforts by Steve Bannon and Breitbart to sabotage Twitter.
■ In a Netflix standup comedy show, director Judd Apatow skewers Trump.
■ In a plea for the endangered Children’s Health Insurance Program, Jimmy Kimmel took his infant son, Billy—who recently underwent heart surgery—onstage at his show last night.