Apple ♥ Chicago / 'Repeal the 2nd Amendment' / Heineken blinks

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Apple ♥ Chicago. Just as this edition of Square rolls off the digital press, Apple is opening a product rollout event—not, as usual, on one of the coasts, but here in the Midwest, at Chicago’s Lane Tech High School.

■ The Verge is blogging the event live.

What Facebook knows. How to download and review everything it has on you.

■ A Federal Trade Commission investigation puts Facebook in a bad place.
■ The top lawyers for Illinois and Cook County both have Facebook’s transgressions in their sight.

Chicago’s biggest screen. A City Council committee is sending the full council a plan to allow the nighttime projection of images of public art onto the almost three acres of the Merchandise Mart’s south-facing facade.

■ Aldermen also will consider giving cops power to smash their way into cars to save pets in bad weather.

■ … and $4 billion in borrowing to jumpstart a massive overhaul of O’Hare International Airport.

‘Repeal the Second Amendment.’ Ex-Supreme Court Justice (and lifelong Cubs fan) and John Paul Stevens in The New York Times: “That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform.”

■ The Washington Post: How Parkland, Florida, massacre survivors became villains for right-wingers.

■ The Onion mocks the NRA’s spokeswoman: “Dana Loesch Rethinking Loyalties After Seeing How Much Airtime Teen Activists Getting.”

■ The Times: Citibank is using its clout to restrict firearms sales.

■ As security concerns rise, Chicago-area schools may excuse themselves from serving as election polling places.

‘A ruse … to sabotage the census.’ Civil rights groups are condemning the Trump administration for a move they say will suppress immigrant responses.

■ Federal jurors are getting a raise for the first time in almost 30 years.

Heineken blinks. Under fire for a commercial Chicago’s Chance the Rapper has labeled “terribly racist,” the Dutch brewer has pulled an ad that showed a bartender sliding a bottle along a bar past dark-skinned people, to a fair-skinned woman—with the tagline, “Sometimes, lighter is better.”

■ Twitter is banning ads for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.

Ready Player One movie reviews.

■ Richard Roeper in the Sun-Times: “Spielberg is like one of those rock gods who joins the kids onstage at some all-star jam and blows everyone away.”

■ Variety: “Entrancing when it’s virtual, less so when it’s real.”

■ USA Today: “An ’80s pop-culture binge-fest.”

■ Rotten Tomatoes (as of 9:30 a.m.): 81 percent.