Lake Shore Drive gunfire. Police say four people were shot—one killed, three wounded critically—when someone fired at a van from a car along the Drive near Fullerton close to midnight last night …
■ That followed the shooting of two men on I-94 at I-57 earlier in the evening.
■ WBEZ details “a pricey effort to employ the men most likely to shoot or be shot in Chicago.”
‘People hollering and screaming.’ A witness describes yesterday’s derailment of a CTA Green Line train …
■ … which sent at least seven people to hospitals.
■ WGN-TV: The Green Line’s suffered at least four derailments over the last 11 years.
‘Inappropriate and harassing.’ A newly released report details charges against a Cook County judge accused of making sexual advances toward a police officer and asking a court reporter “how much money” she’d want in order to have sex with him.
■ Convicted ex-Chicago Ald. Willie Cochran’s lawyer argues that, because prison sentences haven’t “done anything to curb Chicago’s tidal wave of aldermanic corruption cases,” Cochran doesn’t belong behind bars.
■ The New York Times explains why automakers are pleading with Trump to back off from his plan to relax pollution rules.
■ All the world leaders but one who signed a proclamation commemorating D-Day put their signatures at the bottom. Guess where Trump put his.
And it only took him four decades. Presidential candidate Joe Biden is recanting his support of a ban on federal funding for abortion.
■ “In light of Georgia’s new draconian anti-choice legislation,” hundreds of American Bar Association members are asking their Board of Governors to reject a plan to hold a 2021 meeting there.
■ Because they supported statutory protection for Illinois abortion rights, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton will be denied communion at Springfield-area churches.
■ ProPublica Illinois dissects the “massive” gambling expansion legislation “pushed through at the last minute, with little debate or analysis, that will profoundly impact our state.”
■ Black entrepreneurs say a bill to legalize marijuana in Illinois leaves them out, favoring instead existing—mostly white-owned—medical pot companies.
■ The Sun-Times asks: Where is a dead banker’s yacht?
Roborelief. The FCC’s reversed course, letting phone carriers block spammy robocalls by default …
■ … but leaving open the possibility you may have to pay extra for the help.
Blues blessed. The Reader serves up a guide to this weekend’s (free!) Chicago Blues Fest in Millennium Park.
■ Meanwhile in the suburbs, it’s the Midwest’s largest electronic music festival: Spring Awakening 2019.
■ A new book details Chicago’s influence on comedy in the 1980s.
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