Early voting expands. The number of spots in which Illinoisans can cast ballots for the March 20 primary increases dramatically today.
■ See Sunday’s debate among the eight Democratic candidates running for Illinois attorney general here on the web.
■ The Sun-Times joins the Tribune in backing Sharon Fairley for the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
■ See endorsements from the Tribune here and the Sun-Times here.
■ Bewildered by the judicial ballot? See all the bar associations’ candidate ratings. (Link updated.)
‘Of course, President Second Thoughts might still not do it.’ The Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg ponders the impact on Chicago businesses if the Trump administration follows through with plans to slap tariffs on imported metals.
■ Trump’s been musing over the prospect of the U.S. selecting its president for life.
■ Vox: His company’s use of golf-course markers with the presidential seal may violate the law.
■ … but special counsel Robert Mueller is tightening the screws on the president’s closest advisers, going back to November 2015.
■ The New Yorker: Meet the ex-spy who tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.
■ Vox: Congressional contracts for unpaid interns don’t even guarantee them a copy of what they signed.
Suburban gun faceoff. Demonstrators for and against stronger gun-control laws yesterday turned out for a DuPage County gun show.
■ Sports brands CamelBak, Bushnell and Giro are among the latest caught in the gun-control crossfire.
Chicago’s Oscar moment. Awards contenders with Chicago ties mostly whiffed last night, but Second City veteran Jordan Peele took the best screenplay award for Get Out.
■ Some of the night’s other highlight lines.
■ Host Jimmy Kimmel’s midshow stunt: Taking a bunch of movie stars to a neighboring theater to thank moviegoers—and fire hot dogs at them.
■ Kimmel’s carrot to get nominees to be brief—a Jet Ski for the shortest acceptance speech—went to …
■ Under suspicion of sexual harassment, red-carpet denizen Ryan Seacrest had an “extremely weird and embarrassing” night.
■ The Onion mocks Seacrest: “Perverted Creep Keeps Asking Women What They’re Wearing.”
Amazon checking? The Wall Street Journal says the company’s in talks with JPMorgan Chase—already its partner in a plan to remake health insurance—to launch an Amazon-branded checking-account-like product.
■ Bloomberg: Why Amazon bought a doorbell company.
■ Want one of Google’s Nest thermostats? You won’t find it on Amazon.
In the suburbs, it’s Crawford Day. Happy Pulaski Day.■ What’s open, what’s not. (Photo: John Greenfield.)
Corrections.
■ Reader Jim Lemon was first (of many) to spot errors in Friday’s Chicago Public Square: An extra word in the phrase “one insider tells Vanity Fair
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