‘Bodies laying everywhere.’ A witness describes the scene after a shootout that left at least 15 people wounded at a funeral last night on Chicago’s South Side.
■ The Sun-Times: “The largest number of victims in a single Chicago shooting in recent memory.”
■ Police have been questioning a person of interest.
■ Someone shot a 3-year-old girl riding in her father’s SUV early today in South Shore.
■ Mayor Lightfoot is pleading for witnesses to step up.
■ Shootings on expressways so far this year have already passed Chicago’s historic yearly totals.
■ Tribune columnist John Kass bemoans “an overwhelming sense of lawlessness.”
‘We don’t see a Portland-style deployment.’ Lightfoot says, despite President Trump’s bluster, the federal agents he’s sending Chicago will apparently work with law enforcement agencies here …
■ … but she says the city will head to court if it sees “unconstitutional arrest and detainment of our residents.” (Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor.)
■ The Trib’s Dahleen Glanton: “This cheap political ploy has nothing to do with stopping the violence. It’s about revenge. Trump hates Chicago.”
■ Her colleague, Steve Chapman: “Cities should be able to work with a president. … Trump would rather be their enemy.”
Trump ♥ masks. But he’s late to the party …
■ … and he now concedes the COVID-19 pandemic “will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better.”
■ Trump’s “coronavirus briefing” summed up in 185 characters.
■ Here’s a longer account of the lies he told.
■ The Atlantic: “Trump Is a Broken Man.”
‘Menacing reality.’ The Associated Press says science is coming to grips with COVID-19’s most frightening aspect: “If people who appear healthy can transmit the illness, it may be impossible to contain.”
■ The Conversation: “Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected.”
Carry out, my wayward son. Chicago to Kansans considering a visit: Stay home or be quarantined …
■ … and Wisconsin may be next.
■ The DuPage County Health Department shut a COVID-19 testing site Tuesday after reaching capacity in two hours.
■ The county reports kids and young adults account for a growing percentage of its total cases.
‘Colleges are getting ready to blame their students.’ Harvard Medical School and Washington University professors warn: “Relying on the self-control of young adults, rather than deploying the public-health infrastructure needed to control a disease that spreads easily among people who live, eat, study, and socialize together, is not a safe reopening strategy.”
■ Northwestern University’s food service has laid off hundreds of workers in the pandemic.
‘The names are like a roll call of the dead.’ Trib columnist Mary Schmich mourns restaurants and other businesses lost to COVID-19 …
■ … who, by one count, number at least 2,400 in the Chicago area.
■ Walmart says it won’t open Thanksgiving Day.
‘Silence is corruption.’ That’s the rallying cry of Illinois’ Republican lawmakers demanding the Democratic leadership call a special legislative session to address ethics in the wake of the ComEd scandal threatening to engulf Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
■ WBEZ: Things to know about the ComEd story.
Buh-bye? Updating coverage: The U.S. House was set to vote today on a proposal to dump a bust of the Supreme Court chief justice who declared Blacks couldn’t be citizens. [Update, 9:29 p.m. p.m.: Done.]
■ The Chicago Park District has called an emergency meeting today to consider renaming a park honoring slavery defender Stephen A. Douglas. [Update, 1:16 p.m.: Yep.]
Point of no return. A new report concludes the current rate of human-caused carbon pollution has put Earth on a path in which global warming is, as The Washington Post puts it, “extremely unlikely to be on the low end of estimates.”
■ The Sierra Club: Sorry about our racist founder.
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