Illinois’ hottest races. Axios Chicago offers a big-picture view of next month’s election.
■ Fresh Tribune endorsements for the Illinois Senate: Four Democrats and a Republican challenging a Democrat whose resignation Gov. Pritzker’s demanded.
■ Hey Chicago (the new name for City Cast’s newsletter and coincidentally the name of a Facebook news app roughed out by your Chicago Public Square columnist for the Trib back in the aughts, when Facebook news apps were going to be a thing) explains the Workers’ Right Amendment atop state ballots.
■ Politico Illinois Playbook: More women than men are voting early.
■ Ready to do it? The Square voter guide awaits.
‘Dress rehearsal for Trump 2024.’ Rolling Stone reports Donald Trump is planning to challenge next month’s election results—beginning in Philadelphia.
■ Trump’s business goes on trial today in Manhattan—and could be banned from doing business with the federal government. (AI-generated image by Dall-E 2, processing the phrase “ballot box to a black hole.”)
■ Columnist Robert Reich wishes he didn’t have to write about Trump anymore, but “none of us dare turn our eyes away in revulsion.”
■ Semafor: Because Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch’s top lawyer spent nearly four years without a license to practice law in California, his potentially sensitive or embarrassing communications may not be protected under attorney-client privilege.
All Ye faithful. Los Angeles’ mayor and district attorney are among those condemning demonstrators who unfurled banners over a freeway in support of antisemitic comments made by Kanye West—also now known as Ye.
■ Leaders of three top Hollywood talent agencies are calling on the entertainment biz to cut ties with him.
■ Adidas is under growing pressure to follow JP Morgan Chase, among others, in doing the same.
■ Reminder: West is a Chicago-area export (2021 link).
‘The right-wing fantasy of what happens when you put ideologues in charge.’ Popular Information looks at the purge of tenured professors at a Kansas university after a statewide policy change—and an infusion of cash from Charles Koch, a longtime critic of tenure and liberal education.
■ A new national report card reflects the pandemic’s impact on American kids: The largest-ever decline in fourth- and eighth-grade math scores.
■ Poynter’s Al Tompkins: The head of the CDC has COVID-19—a reminder the pandemic’s not over and another wave could be ahead, soon.
‘Guilty to all 24 charges.’ A 16-year-old Michigan kid has pleaded guilty to terrorism and first-degree murder in a school shooting that left four students dead last year.
■ A shootout Sunday at a “drifting” event, where drivers had taken over a Southwest Side Chicago intersection, left at least three dead and two wounded.
■ Chicago’s Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, whose performance was cut short in the massacre at Highland Park’s July 4 parade, returned for a performance Sunday at the city’s public library.
‘It was a brutal attack.’ The agent for author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed last month as he prepared to deliver a lecture in New York, says Rushdie’s lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand …
■ … but he declined to say whether Rushdie is still in a hospital.
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‘Big honking deals in their own eyes, laughingstock losers in everybody else’s.’ Columnist Neil Steinberg sees late-night TV host James Corden’s public relations crisis as symptomatic of many celebrities’ mindset.
■ The Onion: “James Corden Breaks Silence On Restaurant Controversy: ‘I Like To Find Stray Dogs And Suffocate Them To Death.’”
‘Sexy gubernatorial candidate.’ That’s one Axios Chicago suggestion for locally themed Halloween costumes.
■ The early line on Halloween weather: Mostly cloudy, high around 60, low around 50.
Thanks. Patrick Olsen made this edition better.
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