‘Blood was everywhere.’ Witnesses talk to the Sun-Times about a Halloween party at which a gunman wounded at least 15 people early Sunday.
■ Charges were to be filed today.
■ Robert Crimo III, accused of killing seven and wounding 48 at last year’s July 4 parade in Highland Park, won’t have to testify at his dad’s trial on charges of recklessly signing the younger Crimo’s gun ownership application.
Burke’s comments on Jews. A federal judge overseeing the corruption case against ex-Ald. Ed Burke says the jury can hear his caught-on-audio remarks about Jewish people …
■ … so now Burke’s lawyers say they plan to ask potential jurors about their opinions on the war between Israel and Hamas.
■ The group Save the Children reports more kids killed in Gaza than in the total of armed conflicts globally during each of the last four years.
■ The Messenger: Antisemitism’s on the rise around the world.
■ Comedian Iliza Shlesinger: “The news spin cycle has washed away the animalistic slaughter of Israelis and replaced it with outrage over the retaliation.”
■ Under fire for calling an antisemitic lynch mob in Russia a “protest,” the AP changed its headline.
■ Evanston teenager Natalie Raanan, held hostage by Hamas, has returned home.
‘This offset is nothing of the sort.’ Historian Heather Cox Richardson takes a critical look at House Republicans’ plan to link U.S. aid for Israel to a cut in funding for the Internal Revenue Service.
■ The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes: “As … the Mideast is burning, the new speaker of the House has decided that this would be a good moment to trigger the libs.”
■ Media critic Mark Jacob: “The GOP is exploiting the Israel-Hamas war to try to help its rich donors dodge taxes.”
Trump ballot tracker. Lawfare’s launched a dashboard updating challenges across the nation to Donald Trump’s appearance on state ballots for the presidency …
■ … including this week’s Colorado suit contending that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, disqualify Trump under a rarely invoked clause of the Constitution.
You’re still payin’. Even though, by many measures, the pandemic emergency’s passed, the Sun-Times reports Chicago restaurants continue to slap surcharges on diners’ bills.
■ Slow Boring columnist Matthew Yglesias: 2020’s murder surge wasn’t about COVID.
■ Popular Information explores Target’s possible “ulterior, more opportunistic motives” for store closings it’s been blaming on crime.
■ The CTA reports its highest weekly ridership since the pandemic.
‘A sense of urgency.’ Politico says that, as the weather takes a turn for the worse, Chicago City Hall’s under pressure to accommodate the city’s influx of refugees.
■ A City Council committee’s cleared a plan for a migrant tent camp in the parking lot of a donated South Side ex-Jewel grocery store.
■ A 6-year-old migrant boy was hit by a car outside a tent camp near a Chicago police station.
‘We still need to fight for every tenth of a degree.’ A new study warns that Earth is on unfortunate track to breach a key global warming threshold within five years.
■ Today, Halloween, is just the 10th time in Chicago weather history that fall’s first freezing temperature and first snowfall have accosted the city on the same day.
■ The Conversation explores the history of what many consider Halloween’s creepiest song.
Correction. Yesterday’s Chicago Public Square associated the wrong link with yesterday’s most-tapped item, a WXRT April Fool’s prank in 1980.
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