History made. Evanston’s City Council has become the first in the nation to approve financial reparations for Black residents.
■ One champion of the cause: “The whole world is looking at Evanston.”
■ The lone “no” vote came from a Black woman.
‘A win for all of us.’ Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens hails Chicago Public Schools’ decision to dump the name of a racist Swiss scientist, Louis Agassiz, from a Lakeview school …
■ … to be renamed after a woman born into slavery, Harriet Tubman.
■ Ford is among several politicians with Loretto dirt on their hands (middle of today’s Politico Illinois Playbook).
■ Trib editorial: “Hospital executives wanted to be superstars. … Maybe they like attention. Well, here it is.” (Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor.)
Up to 5,000 doses a day. Illinois opens its fifth Cook County mass vaccination site Friday at a former HOBO store in Forest Park …
■ … but, as WTTW explains, it comes with a catch: It’s just for those who are eligible—a calculation that differs from Chicago to Cook County to the state.
■ Patch columnist Mark Konkol fears it’s “just another vaccination line you can’t get into” …
■ … but a toll-free Cook County reservation number yesterday yielded an appointment in just 18 minutes (mostly on hold).
■ Unable to get a shot in the daytime? Chicago’s health commissioner doesn’t see a 24-hour vaccination site anytime soon.
Not so fast. A University of Michigan medical historian warns Americans to take a lesson from the pandemic of 1918: “A premature return to pre-pandemic life risks more cases and more deaths.”
■ The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says AstraZeneca’s proposed COVID-19 vaccine may not be as effective as the company boasted.
■ The Atlantic ponders the Sunshine State’s pandemic policies: “Liberals predicted that Florida would get destroyed by its laissez-faire approach. … Conservatives said the state was the future of the economy. What if they were both wrong?”
Free doughnuts. Krispy Kreme is offering anyone with proof of COVID-19 vaccination a freebie every day for the rest of the year.
■ A downtown Chicago marketing alliance finds businesses “slightly more confident” about life returning to the Loop.
■ Recode: 10 ways office work will never be the same after the pandemic.
■ A Chicago alderman wants the city to refund bars and restaurants at least some of what they paid for liquor licenses they couldn’t use in the pandemic.
■ Mayor Lightfoot’s put a crimp in plans to clamp down on museums in residential neighborhoods.
Colorado’s grief. Updating coverage: At least 10 people are dead in a shooting at a Boulder supermarket.
■ The first officer at the scene was killed, leaving behind seven children.
■ A survivor describes how she and her son escaped: “We have three seconds. … Just move fast.”
■ CNN’s Oliver Darcy on Fox News’ choice to discuss Joe Biden’s stair stumble instead of broadcasting a Boulder police news conference: “This is not the behavior of a news organization. It’s the behavior of a right-wing talk channel.”
■ A TV reporter’s plight: “I worked on a segment about one mass shooting that had to be postponed due to breaking news on another mass shooting. … I said to a friend ‘I’m not sure if this will air since we are in a different shooting now.’”
State of the states of the union.
■ Illinois politicians are joining a campaign to let Puerto Rico decide whether to become a state or declare its independence or something else.
■ Republicans opposing statehood for Washington, D.C., are shoveling lots of bullshit.
■ The Onion jokes: “National Support Grows To Give North Dakota’s Statehood To D.C.”
Rodent wrongdoing. Caught on video stealing an Amazon order from a Chicago porch: A squirrel.
■ Brace for the return of cicadas who’ve spent 17 years underground but now are ready to, in the words of the Trib’s Morgan Greene, “writhe up into our world, make a lot of noise, have sex and die.”