CHICAGO SPORTS TIPOFF AHEAD: WHO NCAA MEN’S TOURNAMENT WILL RISE TO THE TOP? Michigan State wins Big Ten final at ON THE the United Center, will play Bradley What to know about MVC champ BRINK OF Bradley, state’s lone team in tourney MADNESS Top-seeded Duke heads the East; we take a region-by-region look BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE EXPANDED SPORTS COVERAGE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Monday, March 18, 2019 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Political insider linked to corruption probe FBI affidavit portrays Brian Hynes, a figure in “(Hynes) told me that he was far-reaching federal investigation family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, aware that I was served a sub- — the City Hall probe that has according to court records and Blagojevich case, as involved in Ald. Solis’ affairs poena, and I’ve been a good team already ensnared two powerful other public information re- player and should continue to do Chicago aldermen, Daniel Solis viewed by the Tribune. By Jason Meisner he had a message from on high. so,” Ata testified at Blagojevich’s and Edward Burke. He also has long-standing con- Chicago Tribune The caller was Brian Hynes, a first criminal trial in 2010. A longtime lawyer and lobbyist, nections to Solis, who has not close friend of businessman and When asked what he thought Hynes, 48, is a consummate Chi- been seen in public since January Ali Ata had just been subpoe- political fixer Antoin “Tony” Hynes meant, Ata said it was clear: cago political insider who has when it was revealed that he naed in the intensifying corrup- Rezko. With a federal noose tight- “That I should not cooperate,” he associated with some of the state’s worked undercover for the FBI for tion probe of the Gov. Rod Blago- ening around Rezko’s neck, Hynes testified. most powerful people over the two years, wearing a wire on jevich administration in 2005 asked Ata, the head of the Illinois Now, nearly a decade and a half years, including Illinois House colleagues at City Hall. when he got a call from a young, Finance Authority, to meet him at after that meeting, Hynes has Speaker Michael Madigan, Blago- well-connected attorney who said a restaurant in Greektown. surfaced in another potentially jevich and his wife, Patti, and the Turn to Hynes, Page 4 Experts worrying about ’20 census Illinois is said to need good count ‘more than almost any other state’ By Elvia Malagon Chicago Tribune The 2020 U.S. census is a little more than a year away, but that hasn’t stopped Jay Young from worrying about what it will mean for Illinois. Young, of the watchdog group Common Cause Illinois, has spent so much time thinking about the decennial count of the state’s population that he recently had a dream that he showed up to a census-related meeting unpre- pared. “There is so much at stake and I constantly worry that we are HANNAH PETERS/GETTY behind,” he said. Mourners pass through a makeshift memorial Sunday for the 50 people killed in Christchurch, New Zealand. Indeed, at least $34 billion in federal funding goes to programs that directly assist people across the state, and the funding for those programs is tied to census figures, Mourning in New Zealand according to an analysis from the George Washington University By Nick Perry “We wish we knew your name NATION & WORLD PAGE 10 Prime Minister Jacinda Institute of Public Policy. Aside and Juliet Williams to write upon your heart. We ■ Facebook removes 1.5M Ardern said authorities hoped to from federal funding, Illinois Associated Press wish we knew your favorite song, versions of shooting video. release all the bodies by Wednes- could lose as many as two con- what makes you smile, what ■ Mourning families grieve as day, and Police Commissioner gressional seats if the count shows CHRISTCHURCH, New Zea- makes you cry,” read one of the they wait to bury loved ones. Mike Bush said authorities were a loss of population, according to a land — A steady stream of tributes, which contained cutout working with pathologists and report from the Illinois Complete mourners paid tribute Sunday at paper hearts under a nearby tree. coroners to complete the task as Count Commission. Population a makeshift memorial to the 50 “We made a heart for you. 50 after death, usually within 24 soon as they could. figures from the once-a-decade people slain by a gunman at two hearts for 50 lives.” hours. The suspect in the shootings, census also factor into redistrict- mosques in Christchurch. Two days after Friday’s attack, Supporters arrived from 28-year-old white supremacist ing that will take place in 2021. Hundreds of flowers were New Zealand’s deadliest shoot- across the country to help with Brenton Harrison Tarrant, ap- The nationwide count takes piled up amid candles, balloons ing in modern history, relatives the burials in Christchurch and peared in court Saturday amid place next year, and across the and notes of grief and love were still waiting for authorities authorities sent in backhoes to strict security, shackled and state officials and local organiza- outside the Al Noor mosque. As a to release the bodies. Islamic law dig graves at a site that was newly wearing all-white prison garb, tions are ramping up efforts to get light rain fell, people clutched calls for bodies to be cleansed fenced off and blocked from view the word out. People will be able each other and wept quietly. and buried as soon as possible with white netting. Turn to New Zealand, Page 10 to respond to the census online, by phone or by mail, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In January, the bureau will start the decennial count in remote parts of Alaska, and the rest of the Amtrak seeks more country will be able to start responding by March 16, 2020, according to the bureau. short-distance trains Young is worried that Illinois is Exec addresses House panel in quest for funding behind in getting funding into the hands of organizations that will do car. You could be like Cary Grant outreach to hard-to-count popu- in “North by Northwest.” lations to ensure a complete That’s the romance of rail count. travel. The reality is, few people Jesse White, the Illinois secre- go the full distance on long-haul Amtrak routes, which typically Turn to Census, Page 8 only run once a day from Chi- Mary Wisniewski cago. Most riders make shorter, Getting Around more prosaic trips. To Spring- field, for example. Or Milwau- South by Southwest: Chicago’s Union Station is kee. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE one of Amtrak’s biggest hubs — Amtrak says that because of Amtrak should not have to choose between long-haul and short-haul 12 bands that stood you can travel almost all over the this reality, it wants to increase service, but needs to do both, according to a passenger rail advocate. country from here. its city-to-city, short-haul trips. out from the crowd Riders can take the City of That could mean adding trains million people since Amtrak transportation subcommittee There were plenty of established New Orleans to the Big Easy, the between cities like Chicago and was formed in 1971, and yet our last week. He said the country musical performers at the 2019 Cardinal to D.C. or the Empire Cleveland, or Chicago and Cin- network looks remarkably simi- has seen “tremendous growth” South by Southwest conference, Builder through the Rockies cinnati — routes that could offer lar,” Stephen Gardner, Amtrak’s in the south and west, but the but the focus was on the up-and- into Seattle. You could relive a time-competitive alternative senior executive vice president rail network hasn’t responded to comers, the bands that will define rail’s glory days, and meet a to driving. for strategy, told the U.S. House the next year of music and be- glamorous stranger in the dining “The nation has added 118 appropriations committee’s Turn to Wisniewski, Page 6 yond. Read Greg Kot in A+E. 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