Bid to Bridge a Segregated City
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BASEBALL ROYALTY MAKES TOUR OF TOWN As the buzz builds about a possible trade to the Cubs, Orioles star shortstop Manny Machado embraces the spotlight. David Haugh, Chicago Sports CHRIS A+E WALKER/ CHICAGO TRIBUNE THE WONDERS UNDERWATER Shedd’s ‘Underwater Beauty’ showcases extraordinary colors and patterns from the world of aquatic creatures EXPANDED SPORTS COVE SU BSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE RA GE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Lawmakers to get intel ‘review’ additional detail. Deal made for meeting over FBI source During a meeting with Trump, in Russia probe amid Trump’s demand Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director By Desmond Butler infiltrated his presidential cam- Christopher Wray also reiterated and Chad Day paign. It’s unclear what the mem- an announcement late Sunday Associated Press bers will be allowed to review or if that the Justice Department’s the Justice Department will be inspector general will expand an WASHINGTON — The White providing any documents to Con- existing investigation into the House said Monday that top FBI gress. Russia probe by examining and Justice Department officials White House press secretary whether there was any improper have agreed to meet with congres- Sarah Huckabee Sanders said politically motivated surveillance. sional leaders and “review” highly Trump chief of staff John Kelly Rep. Devin Nunes, a Trump classified information the law- will broker the meeting among supporter and head of the House makers have been seeking as they congressional leaders and the FBI, intelligence committee, has been scrutinize the handling of the Justice Department and Office of demanding information on an FBI Russia investigation. the Director of National Intelli- source in the Russia investigation. The agreement came after gence. She said the officials will Trump has taken up the cause as President Donald Trump de- “review highly classified and the White House tries to combat EVAN VUCCI/AP manded that the Justice Depart- other information they have re- President Donald Trump made the demand after days of venting about ment investigate whether the FBI quested,” but she did not provide Turn to Deal, Page 11 the special counsel investigation, which he has called a “witch hunt.” U.S. plan: From Ky., Pressure guns end Iran into up here, new deal killing 3 Pompeo speech lists Traced firearms show strict demands, calls quick flow from out for global sanctions of state to city streets By Tracy Wilkinson By Jason Meisner Washington Bureau Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON — The It was lunchtime outside an Trump administration, two outlet mall east of Louisville, weeks after it withdrew from Ky., when the deal was made an international arms control for a gun that within weeks deal that curbed Iran’s nuclear would be used to kill a 15-year- ambitions, called Monday for a old boy in Chicago. new global coalition to force The 9 mm Taurus pistol was the Islamic Republic to capitu- posted for sale on Armslist late to a long list of political and .com, a controversial website military demands. that helps buyers and sellers of In his first major policy weapons find each other with- address, Secretary of State out asking them to register or Mike Pompeo described Iran provide proof of identity or in uncompromising and com- background checks, federal bative terms, vowing to enact court records show. history’s most draconian sanc- Shortly before noon on tions against Tehran and to ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE March 16, 2017, the buyer “crush” its proxy forces across Tonika Johnson’s project pairs people from North and South side blocks of the same streets. arrived at the mall on Buck the Mideast. Creek Road in Simpsonville, The administration’s so- Ky., in a white called Plan B, as an alternative “American to the nuclear deal, was less a muscle car,” detailed new policy than a court records dozen harsh demands, with no show. He told clear way to achieve them, that Bid to bridge a the seller his Pompeo said Iran must meet name was before President Donald Christian Trump would agree to a “new Banks, han- deal.” ded over $300 Henderson The sweeping list would cash for the sharply curtail Iran’s ballistic segregated city compact black missile program and wider handgun and behavior in the region, and city’s economic, racial and filled out a ge- require a radical change in Project introduces residents other types of segregation by neric receipt, policy — if not leadership — in bringing together residents according to Tehran. Behind the demands of opposite sides of Chicago from opposite sides of the city. court records. lay what Pompeo vowed would She started with residents in Just 42 days be “unprecedented financial By Elvia Malagon | Chicago Tribune Englewood — the neighbor- later, Xavier Phillips pressure” through new sanc- hood she still calls home — Soto was with tions. The street names around her high school in Lakeview sounded and introduced them to a 16-year-old familiar to Tonika Johnson, but everything else made her feel like neighbors on corresponding friend in an Turn to Iran, Page 11 North Side blocks to talk alley behind it was a world apart from her Englewood neighborhood. about what it’s like to live in his home in As she commuted by train and bus to Lane Technical College their communities. She’s cap- the 4900 Prep High School, she’d pass Paulina Street and Ashland turing the experiences in block of West Avenue, north-south streets that stretch to her South Side photographs and video re- George Street TOM SKILLING’S cordings. in Chicago’s Wright FORECAST neighborhood. The route near school was dotted with occupied Johnson said she thinks the gang-infested homes, shops, patches of grass and flowers. But as Johnson exhibit captures the effects of Belmont-Cragin neighbor- High 73 Low 55 neared home each day, she saw vacant lots, empty storefronts segregation in Chicago, which hood. A car pulled up and a and a lack of greenery that made her question: How could these has long had a reputation as gunman opened fire with the Weather Center: Complete the most segregated city in the same Taurus pistol. Xavier was forecast on back page of A+E neighborhoods, just 10 miles apart, look so different? U.S. Indeed, a recent study struck in the head and died two revealed that African-Ameri- days later. His friend was shot That feeling of living in a working on an upcoming mul- cans in Chicago would earn multiple times but survived. divided city followed John- timedia exhibit, “Folded The evidence linking Xavi- $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 son, now 38, as she started Map,” which examines the Turn to Folded map, Page 7 er’s slaying to the gun pur- elsewhere. 170th year No. 142 chased in Kentucky was re- © Chicago Tribune vealed by federal prosecutors “We are operating within a system that was designed last week as they sought to hold to segregate us.” — Tonika Johnson, Folded Map project creator three men without bond on Turn to Guns, Page 6 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, May 22, 2018 SCOTT OLSON/GETTY Jai Gillard, a freshman at Santa Fe High in Texas, leaves a message for one of the victims of last week’s school shooting. School shootings, Ritalin and the NRA’s culture of convenient excuses According to global marketing firm hol abuse.” Newzoo, the five countries that spend These cultural factors can all be the most money on video games are: concerning in their own right, but China, the United States, Japan, Ger- they aren’t to blame for America’s gun many and the United Kingdom. violence epidemic. If they were, other Using data from 2016, the Institute countries would have the same prob- for Health Metrics and Evaluation at lems. Rex W. Huppke the University of Washington found There’s only one significant factor that the rate of violent gun deaths per that separates America from places It’s Ritalin. 100,000 people in those countries is: like England and Japan and Germany ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK It’s a culture of death. 0.06 for China, 3.85 for the United and Sweden: We have an illogical It’s not enough religion, and too States, 0.04 for Japan, 0.12 for Ger- number of easily accessible guns. OF THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX: A many violent video games. many and 0.07 for the United King- And if we want to do something DECADE-BY-DECADE HISTORY’ Those, we’re told, are the things dom. about how often teenagers and adults causing America’s almost rhythmic Violent video games are available use those guns to kill other people, we Tobe a White Sox fan is to know the highest of highs, the school shootings. That’s where the everywhere, but America’s gun vi- must be able to have an honest discus- lowest of lows and all points in between. “The Chicago blame was placed — again — this olence rate is staggeringly higher than sion, not one based on drummed-up Tribune Book of the Chicago White weekend as students and families and those other top video game-purchas- cultural hysteria. Sox: A Decade-by-Decade History” pundits and lawmakers grappled with ing countries. Personally, I’d like to melt all the touches all those bases and covers Friday’s slaughter of 10 people at a How about the importance of reli- guns down, forge a giant steel statue more than a century of South Side high school in Santa Fe, Texas. gion in our society? A Pew Research of a hand making a rude gesture, then baseball: “Black Jack” and “Jungle Retired Lt.