‘A tone-deaf middle finger to the entire Chicago Police Department.’ The Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg perceives one glaring gaffe in Johnson’s inaugural address.
‘Lake Street death trap.’ A fix for the narrow stretch of road squeezed under the CTA tracks on the West Side is one of the demands of the new mayor from Fulton Market’s booming business community. (2016 photo of the L through East Garfield Park: John Ruberry.)
■ Autopsy results list a drug overdose as the main cause of death for a homeless man beaten at a downtown Blue Line stop—allegedly by a CTA worker who faces felony charges.
‘A brief, concerning conversation.’ Slate’s Jim Newell shares an exchange with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in which she seems to not remember being absent from the Capitol.
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■ So we like to thank them publicly, in random order, every once in a while—beginning this time with Tom Mulcahy, Linda Paul, Robert Izral, Joe Hallissey, Shel Lustig, Sue Omanson, Nancy Straus, Kathy Catrambone, Pavlo Berko, Ted Slowik, Suzy Le Clair, Mike Pontillo, Scott Baskin, Lizzie Schiffman Tufano and Jane Hirt.