Preckwinkle-Lightfoot faceoff. The Beachwood Reporter’s Steve Rhodes watched the Chicago mayoral candidates’ joint appearance before the Tribune’s editorial board: “I winced …”
■ But, the Trib’s Eric Zorn says, they just don’t disagree on much.
■ See the whole session.
■ Former candidate Paul Vallas is backing Lightfoot.
■ Differences over which candidate to endorse have split two aldermen—badly: One is calling the other a “pile of s__t.”
■ A revised Tribune
Rahm’s big day. Two of Mayor Emanuel’s favorite projects come up for votes in the City Council today: The Lincoln Yards development between Lincoln Park and Bucktown and the Chicago police and firefighter training academy on the West Side.
■ Politico: Emanuel has never lost a City Council vote.
■ Watch the council meeting live on the web beginning at 10 a.m.
Divvy + Lyft? Emanuel is proposing to split Chicago’s bike-sharing revenue with Lyft—in exchange for a commitment to push the program citywide within two years.
■ Chicago’s in line for two days of warm-enough-to-bike weather—if you don’t mind the rain.
‘Shameless.’ A Sun-Times editorial on the wealthy moms and dads charged with schemes to get their kids into college: “The playing field is never level when it comes to getting into our nation’s most exclusive colleges.”
■ The New York Times’ David Leonhardt: Time to end special treatment for college sports.
■ One of the only students accused of willingly participating in the scam may not get her Georgetown diploma.
■ The Los Angeles Times: Suspect Felicity Huffman awoke to FBI agents with guns drawn at her.
■ The Wall Street Journal: An Idiot’s Guide to Bribing and Cheating Your Way Into College.
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‘Almost criminally insufficient.’ At least one pilot has complained about the training material for Boeing’s troubled 737 Max 8 planes …
■ … as the FAA defends their continued use in the U.S.
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■ The Chicago Public Schools inspector general: Dozens of school employees got free or cheap preschool for their kids by understating their income to their own employer—costing the school system millions.
■ A new bill to raise Illinois’ smoking age to 21 would also remove the criminal penalties for kids caught with tobacco.
Strip club death. One man—the son of a Harvey cop—is dead and several others were hurt in a shooting early this morning at a club …
■ … whose predecessor club was at the center of federal investigations into Harvey corruption.
‘An implicit admission that there were mistakes.’ A lawyer for immigrant kids hails a decision by a chain of shelters under investigation for abuse and poor supervision to close four of its nine Chicago-area outposts.
■ A lawsuit says Chicago’s city shelters for the homeless violated the rights of people with disabilities.
Try, try again. Updating coverage: President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, goes before a federal judge today to be sentenced for the second time in less than a week
■ The Washington Post: Russians may use Ukraine elections to test new forms of election interference for use in the U.S.
■ CORRECTION: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey recorded a podcast with an anti-vaccine “personality” who’d previously told people not to trust the fact-checking organization Snopes.
■ Amazon has yanked books promoting vaccine misinfo.
BBQ at Mariano’s. The Pork & Mindy’s chain plans to open restaurants inside 28 grocery stores this year.
■ From last year: The chain’s founder, Food Network star Jeff Mauro, talked about that time a guy in the audience died.
‘Feeling queasy about Israel as it slides toward extremism … seems more an expression of sincerely-held Judaism than of anti-Semitism.’ The Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg says readers have been goading him: “Make this Jewish Democrat denounce his fellow Democrat.”
■ Columnist Clarence Page: “Democrats have benefited from their appeals to diversity. But …”
■ A Bernie Sanders aide is apologizing for questioning American Jews’ “dual allegiance to the state of Israel.”
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■ Thanks to reader Pam Spiegel for being first to note a few typos corrected above …
■ … and to reader John Robinson, who flagged the error in the Dorsey item above.