‘An unlivable world.’ A new United Nations report on the climate says that’ll be Earth’s fate if humans don’t move immediately to improve building practices and cut the use of fossil fuels.
■ A University of California transportation specialist who contributed to the report: “Revolutionary changes in transportation, from electric vehicles to ride-sharing, could slow global warming.”
‘He may well rot in hell.’ Charles M. Madigan, who reported from Moscow for the Tribune in the 1970s, says Russia’s President Vladimir Putin may never be tried or imprisoned, but “he is likely to join Lenin and Stalin as a man who tried to use terror to achieve an objective.”
■ A Trib editorial calls for Putin to be held accountable: “The corpses of Bucha surely will be Exhibit #1.”
Big doorbell’s watching. The City of Chicago will reimburse residents for installing outdoor security cameras—if those residents agree to register the cameras with the cops …
■ … a thing you can do here, free cam or not.
■ Police are hoping this footage will help catch the carjackers who put the Chicago Film Office director in the hospital.
■ WTTW News: A Chicago cop who shot and killed a man Sunday wasn’t wearing a body cam.
■ Two break-ins within minutes of one another overnight hit the Macy’s on State Street and a LensCrafters store on North Michigan Avenue.
■ The thieves apparently coveted sunglasses.
■ Developing story: Police say a CTA Red Line operator who thought he was helping a customer recover a cellphone that had fallen on the tracks last night was pushed onto those tracks.
Help for renters. The City of Chicago is launching a free legal assistance program for low-income apartment dwellers facing eviction.
■ Loop North News: Downtown Chicago apartment rents jumped 30 percent in 2021.
And then there were three. City Cast Chicago has whipped up a cheat-sheet guide to the remaining contenders hoping to build the city’s first casino.
■ The first of three public hearings comes tonight at the Harold Washington Public Library.
■ You can also watch online.
COVID fermata. Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Richard Riccardo Muti has the novel coronavirus, so tonight’s performance is off.
■ Gov. Pritzker was set today to sign a bill giving vaccinated teachers and school staffers paid time off if they catch COVID-19.
■ In the face of what a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insider calls “some real weaknesses” exposed by the pandemic, the CDC’s director has announced a major review of how it works—and doesn’t.
■ Want to know how your favorite Chicago restaurant scored in city health inspections? Yelp now can tell you.
‘Union,’ ‘restrooms,’ ‘pay raise,’ ‘plantation.’ Internal documents reviewed by The Intercept show a planned internal messaging app for Amazon employees would block those words.
■ NPR profiles the guy who Amazon fired two years ago—but who came back to lead the first successful unionization effort in the company’s history.
■ HuffPost: “How Amazon Workers Beat The Union Busters At Their Own Game.”
■ The Associated Press: The new union faces more hurdles to come.
■ Starbucks has fired a worker at the center of a government complaint against the company.
Musky spell. A day after disclosure that he’d taken a 9% stake in Twitter—to become the company’s largest single shareholder—Elon Musk is taking a seat on the company’s board.
■ CNBC says Musk is thumbing his nose at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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