Emanuel’s Stormy link.
■ Emanuel’s no fan of plans for a Labor Day protest march that would shut down the Kennedy near O’Hare.
■ Musk tells The New York Times he’s exhausted, and his friends are “really concerned.”
■ His board members are worried about his use of the sleeping drug Ambien. (2015 photo: Steve Jurvetson.)
■ Musk’s brother is opening his second Chicago-area restaurant.
Downtown mayhem.
■ Chicago police reported a man in critical condition after a shooting in a downtown Chicago parking garage around 1 a.m. today.
■ Also early today, a man was beaten and robbed near the lakefront.
■ From the Tribune’s live-blog Thursday of the trial of two men charged in the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton: A witness identified the suspect in court, “100 percent guaranteed.”
‘Do something, please.’ A psychiatry professor is begging Illinois lawmakers to liberate hundreds of children stuck in psychiatric hospitals— sometimes for months—while under state care.
■ ProPublica, in June: The Department of Children and Family Services can’t find appropriate homes for many young mentally ill people—many of whom don’t need to be in those hospitals.
■ Consumer Reports finds “concerning levels of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in many popular baby and toddler foods.”
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■ Newly released California state video shows the raging “fire tornado”—the size of three football fields—responsible for a firefighter’s death last month.
Parade rest. The president’s plans for a ridiculously expensive military parade have been postponed.
■ The Daily Beast: “As if having Omarosa heading up veterans issues wasn’t strange enough, President Trump started arguing with Vietnam vets about napalm and Agent Orange” at a “f__king weird” meeting in 2017.
■ The Weekly Standard says the Strzok campaign misleadingly quoted it to raise (as of Square’s email publication deadline) more than $400,000.
■ The Atlantic: Strzok hasn’t yet decided whether to sue the FBI.
‘Mrs. Fritz never voted Republican again.’ The Trib’s Mary Schmich dives into the journals of a woman who sat on the jury of the 1969 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial.
■ Bloomberg columnist Albert R. Hunt: “How the Republican Party Lost Its Way.”
■ Saturday will be what The Knot says is the year’s most popular wedding date.