■ One juror: People were obviously afraid of him.

■ A Sun-Times editorial: The verdicts are a bad omen for Madigan, whose trial begins next April.

■ The Better Government Association: The outcome underscores the need for “strengthened ethics reforms.”

■ Ex-Chicago inspector general Joe Ferguson says it makes the case for a statewide grand jury to explore public corruption.

■ Meanwhile: A state inspector general’s report concludes Gov. Pritzker’s transportation secretary skirted ethics rules by letting his high-ranking lieutenants pass off certain duties to their underlings.

■ What makes this case a political Rorschach test: The suspect is a Mexican national who’s been deported four times. (Image: Opening shots from Jen Sorensen’s cartoon commentary.)

■ Columnist Will Bunch: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott all but spit on the victims’ graves.

■ The Conversation: A survey of Chicago’s Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods spotlights gun violence’s stressful health toll.

■ The death toll’s risen to seven—two of whom had yet to be identified.

■ At least 17 people—including 10 students—were sent to hospitals yesterday after the collision of a Chicago school bus and an SUV.

■ A former Chicago Police Department patrol chief has reportedly agreed to take over as interim superintendent.

■ Block Club: Chicago’s getting the nation’s gayest city council.

■ Amazon’s begun charging a small fee for some returns (April 11 link).

■ Bud Light sales are in the toilet after a boycott triggered by its promotion with a transgender woman.

■  … including Saturday Night Live.

■ The Onion: “Inflatable Scabby The Rat Keeps Trying To Give Striking Hollywood Writers Copy Of His Screenplay.”

■ The AP says to expect “much more discussion of whether Britain still needs this antiquated institution” …

■  … which British expatriate John Oliver condemns as something that has left the U.K. “hemorrhaging money supporting a family of lightly-inbred billionaires.”

■ In response to yesterday’s edition, Matthew Tarpy writes of Texas’ governor: “Abbott is a despicable human being. With his horrific busing program and the unspeakable evil of how he responded to the massacre in his state this weekend (sneeringly using the term illegal alien over and over) I simply do not understand how he calls himself a Christian. If there is a God, this man will have much to answer for when he meets his maker. What a complete waste of a person.”

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