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He just cares too much. Continuing his farewell tour yesterday at a City Club of Chicago luncheon, Mayor Emanuel addressed criticism he’s been a lousy collaborator: “I am at fault for being impatient.”
■ Mayor-elect Lightfoot tells the developer planning a massive project near Soldier Field: “We’re not gonna ram through anything.”
■ Better Government Association president David Greising: Want to know what kind of mayor Lightfoot will be? Watch her first City Council meeting.
‘He killed two people, and you’re holding a raffle where people can win a gun?’ A lawyer for a man who was killed—along with an innocent bystander—by a Chicago cop who faces firing is disgusted by the police union’s choice of prizes in a fundraiser to help the officer.
■ Newly released video documents a Chicago police chase that led to a crash that killed a 2-year-old girl in March.
■ The Chicago Reporter: The union’s stonewalling reforms that are standard at big-city departments across the country.
■ Police say someone fired at Chicago cops last night.
Scooter scare. A major government study of electric scooters’ safety found an alarming injury rate —especially among those taking their first e-scooter ride.
■ They’re set to show up on Chicago’s West Side next month.
‘A very dumb letter.’ Wonkette’s Evan Hurst guts a memo about the Mueller report from President Trump’s lawyer: “When we say ‘dumb,’ we mean that all of Legal Twitter is making fun of it.”
■ A new study concludes major news outlets’ Twitter accounts are failing to fact-check the president’s tweeted lies.
‘Dangerous.’ Facebook is banning Chicago’s racist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, right-wing blowhard Alex Jones and other jerks from its platforms …
■ … but, hey, there’s still Twitter.
■ Commentary from “an ancient Mesopotamian” in The Onion: “I miss the days when people didn’t turn to their tablets every time they had a question about grain prices, astronomical events, or which deities are owed which offerings.”
Fake meat stake. Beyond Meat, a company that makes plant-based meat substitutes, had a good first day on the steak—uh, make that stock—market.
■ Beyond’s rival, Impossible Foods, is running short on its meatless Impossible Burger patties.
■ An AP fact-check: Yes, cows fart. But their belches are worse for the world’s climate.
Newsradio tension. With a contract set to expire Monday, union workers at Chicago’s all-news radio station are going public to press management to raise pay, especially for workers making minimum wage.
■ A former WFLD-Ch. 32 morning show producer is going to steer two live-action Marvel TV shows.
■ He plays the Chicago Theatre Tuesday. (Photo: John Mathew Smith.)
■ That time President Obama sang Let’s Stay Together.
Thanks … to readers Joe Hass, Julie Meyerson Ross (yes, relation) and Mike Braden for pre-deadline copyediting.