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■ See her inauguration.
■ Politico: An all-female team of movers was to bring Lightfoot’s stuff into her new office.
■ She’s not completely cleaning Rahm Emanuel’s administrative house …
■ … but she will get a historically different City Council.
Jewish security boost. After what apparently was an arson attempt at a Chicago synagogue over the weekend, police are stepping up their presence around the city’s Jewish institutions.
■ Surveillance video shows a suspect.
Chicago measles. Chicago, which has one of the country’s highest vaccination rates, has nevertheless now confirmed its first case in the nation’s ongoing outbreak of measles—the state’s eighth this year.
■ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists measles’ signs and symptoms.
■ In last night’s Fox News town hall, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg called Trump’s tweets “grotesque things.”
■ The (one) Republican congressman calling for Trump’s impeachment now faces a primary challenge.
■ The Times’ Peter Baker: Trump’s “is the profanity presidency, full of four-letter denunciations of his enemies.” (Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor.)
■ One of seven signs you may be smart: You like to swear.
■ An ex-RedEye reporter has written a new book of 100 Very Short Stories of Dangerous Relationships, Impaired Presidents, Frustrating Jobs and More.
Trump’s three abortion exceptions. Calling himself “strongly Pro-Life,” President Trump is nevertheless distancing himself from regressive anti-abortion laws like Alabama’s.
■ Neil Steinberg in the Sun-Times: “This is about faith-based intolerance. Not babies. Not respect for life. Not heartbeats.”
■ Mother Jones: “Gerrymandering and voter suppression paved the way for abortion bans.”
‘Pay women fairly or pay the price.’ Presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris has a plan to lower the boom on companies that pay men more than women.
■ A Sun-Times editorial calls for Illinois to outlaw companies’ practice of charging more for auto insurance just because the customer is a woman—even one with a spotless driving record.
■ The paper’s investigation found auto insurance rates around Chicago inflated for reasons unrelated to one’s driving record.
■ Nevada now has the nation’s first majority-female legislature … and things are different.
‘Refusals should be glaring, red flags.’ A Tribune editorial calls on the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to stop giving a pass to families that provoke repeated complaints of child neglect yet who refuse help.
■ Funeral services have been set for a teen mother lured to a home and murdered, her baby cut from her womb.