■ The words Rauner was seeking (from February) may have been “crass” and “offensive.”
■ One Illinois: Pritzker got off “the best line of the night.”
■ Dueling endorsements for Illinois attorney general: The Tribune for Republican Erika Harold, the Sun-Times for Democrat Kwame Raoul.
■ The Daily Beast: Republicans’ secret weapon for the midterms is voter suppression.
■ The new Chicago Public Square voter guide—including help navigating all those judicial races—is here.
‘We have a lot more work.’ Chicago’s only openly gay candidate for mayor is proposing “24-hour drop in centers” for LGBTQ kids without homes.
■ Mayoral candidate Bill Daley is piling up big bucks for his campaign.
‘There’s nothing I can do about it?’ The mother of a 15-year-old shot in the back of the head by a Chicago police officer is at a loss over the Police Board’s decision to clear the cop.
■ A Trib editorial tells Attorney General Jeff Sessions to back away from Chicago’s policing policies: “Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan had to step in to finish the job you wouldn’t. You were not helpful then. You are not being helpful now.”
■ Chicago’s headed back to court to fight Sessions for the withholding of crimefighting cash over the city’s immigration policies.
■ … during which West revealed he has what Motherboard calls “literally the worst iPhone passcode you could ever have” …
■ … and Twitter responded accordingly.
■ The Sun-Times’ Mary Mitchell: West proved “he can no longer hear the voices that supported him before he was all that.”
■ As Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces formal complaints of misconduct, a Harvard law prof makes a case for abolishing the court.
■ The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser: “I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too.”
■ The Trib’s Eric Zorn: “Continuing to treat the Clintons as honored members of polite society … is inexcusable.”
Bus cuts. The suburban Pace bus service is proposing to eliminate or trim service along several routes.
■ Bicycling Magazine has bumped Chicago off the top of its list for best bicycling cities.
We’re No. 1. A study finds an Illinois pork-processing plant tops the nation for nitrogen from animal waste dumped into waterways.
■ The New York Times: Trump’s EPA is disbanding a key scientific panel tracking air pollution.
■ The warm waters that fueled the devastating Hurricane Michael had what one government meteorologist calls a “human fingerprint” of climate change.
■ Columnist Nicholas Kristof: “Banning the words ‘climate change’ isn’t helping Florida now.”
■ Updating coverage: Florida will need billions to rebuild.
■ The Women’s March Chicago “March to the Polls” begins Saturday at 9 a.m.
■ The Chicago Architecture Center (link corrected) opens some of the city’s coolest buildings to the public—for free.
■ The Pod Save America podcast moves to TV for the midterms.
■ The Trib ranks its top 12 Chicago-area haunted houses.
■ After a stroke, Roberta Flack is ready to return to singing.
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