Ex-prince arrested. King Charles’ brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—stripped of his royal titles because of his links to convicted and dead sex offender and Donald Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein—has been arrested.
■ Read the official statement on “suspicion of misconduct in public office.”
■ Reporter Yashar Ali: It’s the first time in centuries that “a senior royal—still in the line of succession—has been arrested by British authorities.”
■ Columnist Mary Geddry: The arrest “exposes a transatlantic divide in how democracies confront elite misconduct.”
Leo to Trump: No, thanks. Chicago-born Pope Leo tells the president he won’t join the president’s “Board of Peace,” saying that business ought to be left to the United Nations.
■ Stephen Colbert says Trump’s found a replacement: “The FIFA pope.”
■ Updating coverage: Trump’s club was gathering today in Washington …
■ … even as Trump and his Fox News enablers float threats of war.
■ Colbert says he’ll broadcast his final live post-State of the Union address show Tuesday.
■ The National Review’s Jim Geraghty offers a counterpoint to complaints of censorship at Colbert’s show.
■ Poynter’s Tom Jones: “CBS keeps finding new ways to have a bad week.”
■ Jeremy Busby at The Intercept: “Censorship is coming for the rest of us.”
$8.4 billion. That’s how much Gov. Pritzker says the Trump administration has cost the State of Illinois …
■ … but that’s only an estimate, he said in his State of the State address, because “it is impossible to tally the hours, days and weeks our state government has spent chasing … executive orders, letters and edicts that read like proclamations from the Lollipop Guild.”
■ Politico’s Shia Kapos: “Looming over the speech were Pritzker’s reelection campaign and speculation about a 2028 presidential run. He mentioned ‘Trump’ or ‘the president’ 13 times.”
■ Pritzker’s proposing a state limit on local governments’ power to restrict multi-unit housing—encouraging construction of bigger buildings in traditional single-family-home neighborhoods.
■ Also: New taxes on social media companies.
■ Read his full speech here.
About that editorial. Columnist—and, like your Chicago Public Square proprietor, Chicago Tribune alumnus—Eric Zorn explains why the Trib made “a non-endorsement endorsement” in the Illinois primaries for U.S. Senate.
■ Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer flags “Trump's dangerously dumb plan to steal the midterms.”
■ Ready to make your picks? Check the Square Voter Guide Guide.
‘You saw the crying eyes, confusion, uncertainty.’ One of the pastors admitted for the first time in months to the Broadview immigrant detention center says detainees nevertheless seemed to feel the hope of the moment as some detainees and staffers received communion on Ash Wednesday.
■ The faith leaders who entered said they weren’t allowed to discuss conditions in the facility.
■ Law Dork Chris Geidner: In a new memo, senior Homeland Security officials are doubling down on the arrest and detention of refugees.
■ Doctors treating migrant patients write in The New York Times (gift link): “Our patients are more frightened and sicker than ever.”
■ The Minnesota Star-Tribune spotlights that state’s only city—population 800—to have signed an agreement to help ICE.
■ The Chicago City Council yesterday rejected a measure to let the Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigate charges of cops’ illegal cooperation with immigration agents.
■ WBEZ: A retired Chicago Police detective accused of torture at a U.S. base in Cuba maintains he used no coercion to elicit a man’s confession in the 1992 murder of a 7-year-old.
‘Wish We Weren’t Here.’ That’s the subtitle of a new song collection from U2—its first major release in nine years—dedicated in part to Renee Good, the Minnesota mother killed by a federal agent.
■ Hear it here.
■ It’s accompanied by a digital magazine that’ll have a limited print run.
■ Tickets go on sale Friday at noon for Bruce Springsteen’s April return to Chicago.
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That’ll teach you to wash your car. If your social media feed is filled with photos of people who had their rides cleaned over the weekend only to awaken yesterday to find ’em filthy again, that’s because it rained mud in Chicago.
‘It’s been eight days since the passing of my wife.’ Columnist Jeff Tiedrich, who’s blogged several times since, is finally taking a “mental health break” …
■ … but not before offering a dose of “some serious Donnyloathing.”
■ Columnist Elaine Soloway envisions a lunch among the Trump administration’s top female appointees: “Three Women Walk into a Diner.”
‘Why you hiding the answers? Think I might give them to others? Jeeze!’ That was a reader’s question after taking the Chicago Public Square 2,000th edition quiz.
■ The answer: Remember, free Square caps are on the line for the first three takers to get perfect scores. As of Square’s email deadline today, no one has done so. After that happens, we’ll make the correct answers freely available. (As of early today, the highest score was 19/25; the average, 11/25.)
■ Meanwhile (hint, hint): You can take the quiz as many times as you wish.
■ So: Try, try again?
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