‘Incredibly powerful.’ A tornado that swept through Chicago’s western suburbs late Sunday injured at least five people—one critically—with wind speeds of up to 135 mph …
■ But one meteorologist says it could have been worse, “considering the population of the area … and the time of day—after 11 p.m., when many people may be asleep.” (Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor.)
‘The paper loses many of its big thinkers.’ Politico’s Shia Kapos says that, “whether you agree with them or not,” the roster of Chicago Tribune columnists taking buyouts leaves readers without “folks who dug deeper than the he-said-she-said of news stories.”
College sports earthquake. In a victory for jocks, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that NCAA limits on how colleges compensate students violate antitrust law and so may not be enforced.
■ The Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg: “Using the fact that the president is a devout Catholic to blackmail him to stop supporting certain liberties of non-Catholic Americans is everyone’s business.”
Comcast cash at work. Popular Information reports that, despite a post-insurrection pledge in January to “suspend all of our political contributions to those elected officials who voted against certification of the electoral college votes,” Comcast “is among the companies that have pursued other ways to support these same candidates.”
■Live on Clubhouse this afternoon at 1—and a podcast this evening—a Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 interview with Pulitzer-winning Invisible Institute founder Jamie Kalven.
