TRUMPCARE’S ILLINOIS EFFECT. The Chicago Tribune breaks down the impact the bill passed by the U.S. House could have—if it survives debate in the Senate.
■ Republican Gov. Rauner calls the bill a source of “deep concern.”
■ Short version of The New York Times’ winners/losers rundown: You’re probably a loser.
■ Three Illinois Republicans key to the vote “really did not have any other viable political option,” according to the Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet.
■ Axios: The U.S. senators who’ll decide health care’s fate.
■ What post-Obamacare elections in 2010 suggest about the midterms in 2018.
■ Neil Steinberg in the Sun-Times: “The United States … is embracing a hypocritical inhumanity that is literally and figuratively sickening.”
■ Eric Zorn in the Trib: Democrats owe ex-congressman-now-blowhard-radio-host (Square’s phrase, not Zorn’s) Joe Walsh “thanks for so clearly illustrating what they’re fighting against.”
■ Talking Points Memo: Photos of the Republican celebration, annotated with the number of people who could lose their health care coverage in each representative’s district.
UNRELATED ITEMS.
■ ActBlue reports a spike in donations to escrow funds held for eventual Democratic nominees to challenge Republicans who voted for Trump’s health care plan.
■ The Guardian: How to cook the perfect spotted dick.
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LA FIN EST PROCHE. As French voters approach this weekend’s presidential elections, pitting—stop us if you’ve heard this one before—a centrist against a right-wing, anti-immigration candidate, the Eiffel Tower today was hijacked as a political billboard.
■ Protesters plan to obscure the Trump name on Chicago’s Trump Tower with golden pig-shaped balloons.
KARS4WHAT? A report from Minnesota’s attorney general concludes that the 90 percent of the donations to Kars4Kids benefit a New Jersey-based charity that runs summer camps for Jewish youths in New York.
■ Conservatives say Trump’s order “to protect religious liberty” leaves intact “some of the worst progressive mandates from the Obama era.”
‘WE‘RE GOING TO PASS A LAW TO TELL LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW.’ A Republican state senator has reservations about approval of a bill forbidding Illinois’ state and local officers from making arrests based on a person’s citizenship status.
■ The American Civil Liberties Union says a Chicago police commander’s order seems to set illegal quotas for traffic stops of suspected gang members.
■ Even though police have asked reporters not to name two undercover officers shot Tuesday night, Mayor Emanuel yesterday named one of them—and his father, a deputy police chief.
DO YOU GROCERY SHOP?
■ You might not have realized how the shutdown of Joliet-based Central Grocers may affect you: It’s long acted as wholesaler—of Centrella brand products as well as produce, meat and dairy products—for a bunch of Chicago-area stores, including Pete’s Fresh Market, Treasure Island, Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Market and Sunset Foods. Greg Trotter and Ally Marotti explain in the Trib.
■ Jewel-Osco plans to offer online ordering.
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. It's tomorrow. Here's NPR's roundup of what to grab. (Photo: One Stop Comics in Oak Park.)
