Funding Impasse on Wall Stalls Government Congress Adjourns Without Spending Deal, All but Party’S Lawmakers

D C Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Saturday, December 22, 2018 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Funding impasse on wall stalls government Congress adjourns without spending deal, all but Party’s lawmakers. Senators said they expect to including the departments of But as Vice President Mike return at noon Saturday as talks Homeland Security, Transporta- ensuring shutdown as president and Dems duel Pence, acting White House chief continue. tion, Interior, Agriculture, State of staff Mick Mulvaney and senior The White House budget chief and Justice, will be affected. By Lisa Mascaro, Matthew partial government shutdown at adviser Jared Kushner dashed late Friday instructed federal The shutdown would also leave Daly and Zeke Miller midnight with President Donald back and forth at the Capitol, agencies “to execute plans for an hundreds of thousands of federal Associated Press Trump demanding billions of dol- there were no outward signs of a orderly shutdown” when funding workers furloughed or forced to lars for his long-promised Mexi- deal. expires Saturday. work without pay just days before WASHINGTON — White can border wall. The House adjourned Friday, Without a deal, funding for Christmas. House negotiators left the Capitol Trump’s top envoys had been followed an hour later by the about 25 percent of the govern- “We’re going to have a shut- late Friday, and the House and straining to broker a last-minute Senate after senators were told ment was expected to expire at down,” Trump said via video Senate adjourned without a compromise with Democrats and there would be no more votes midnight. Nine Cabinet-level de- spending deal, all but ensuring a some of their own Republican Friday night. partments and dozens of agencies, Turn to Shutdown, Page 2 “You could count on Conrad for anything.” — The Rev. Dan Brandt, a Chicago police chaplain, during the funeral Mass for Officer Conrad Gary JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Pallbearers carry the casket of Chicago police Officer Conrad Gary out of St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago after his funeral Friday. A FINAL SALUTE Conrad Gary, Conrad Gary, one of two Chicago officers 31, joined the fatally struck by a train, is remembered Police Depart- ment in March for always putting others ahead of himself 2017. He and his wife, Kelly, By Rosemary Sobol, Rev. Dan Brandt, a Chicago have a young Katie Galioto police chaplain. A crowd of daughter. and Elvia Malagon more than 1,000 police officers, Chicago Tribune family members, friends and ■ Second officer mourned: dignitaries listened to Brandt on Eduardo Marmolejo, 36, is to be When Chicago police Officer Friday morning in St. Rita of buried Saturday. Page 4 Conrad Gary’s friend left to Cascia Shrine Chapel on the serve in the U.S. military, he took city’s Southwest Side. it upon himself to make trips to “He was that kind of person, nearby car dealership tied white his friend’s home to make sure always putting others before and blue balloons to car side the family was fine. himself,” Brandt said at the mirrors to honor the officers. Others in Gary’s life, from funeral Mass for Gary. “I was Schoolchildren and teachers family to other police officers, told you could count on Conrad lined a portion of the proces- had similar stories to share in for anything.” sion, many of them holding the days after he and Officer As the sun rose Friday, police their hands over their hearts. Eduardo Marmolejo were fa- officers in their dress uniforms The sidewalks leading to the ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE tally struck by a train while converged on the chapel to Chicago Police Department’s Kenyatta Gaines sings “Amazing searching for a suspect, said the mourn Gary. Workers at a Turn to Funeral, Page 4 Grace” during Friday’s funeral service. End may be in sight for CHICAGO SPORTS Ginsburg recovering housing discrimination suit after cancer surgery Under settlement plan, litigation. 2 malignant growths Ginsburg, 85, is the leader of Under the plan, the nearly the court’s liberal wing. She has long-running case 53-year-old case would come to found in justice’s lung achieved an iconic status rare would close by 2024 a close by July 2024, marking an for Supreme Court justices, and end to a crucial chapter in the By Mark Sherman is known as By Jason Meisner national civil rights movement, Associated Press the “Notori- Chicago Tribune according to the nonprofit ad- ous RBG” to vocacy group Business and Pro- WASHINGTON — Justice some of her A landmark public housing fessional People for the Public Ruth Bader Ginsburg had most ardent discrimination lawsuit that Interest, which has spear- surgery Friday to remove two fans. ranks among the longest-run- headed the litigation for dec- malignant growths in her left In recent ning federal cases in Chicago ades. NUCCIO DINUZZO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE lung, the third time the days, Gins- history could be coming to a The settlement agreement Supreme Court’s oldest justice burg has close under a settlement agree- provides a detailed timeline for Long back on field has been treated for cancer basked in the ment reached Friday. the CHA to complete all since 1999. warm ap- Ginsburg The Chicago Housing Au- planned mixed-income units practicing with Bears Doctors found “no evidence plause of au- thority and lawyers represent- and strengthen its housing of any remaining disease” and diences that turned out for ing CHA residents have asked voucher program to better en- Bears guard Kyle Long returned scans taken before the surgery screenings of a new feature film U.S. District Judge Marvin As- able families to move to more to practice Friday after the team showed no cancerous growths about her life. pen to approve the agreement affluent areas if they choose to designated him to return from elsewhere in her body, the court Her health is closely watched creating a road map for the do so. Among the sites still injured reserve. The veteran said in a statement. No addi- by liberals and conservatives CHA to complete its obligations injured his ankle Oct. 28 against tional treatment is planned, it under the so-called Gautreaux Turn to Lawsuit, Page 4 the Jets. said. Turn to Ginsburg, Page 2 Chicago Weather Center: Complete $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere High Low Tom Skilling’s forecast 39 27 forecast on back of Chicago Sports 171st year No. 356 © Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Saturday, December 22, 2018 Justice now recovering Ginsburg , from Page 1 It was unclear whether Ginsburg would be back alike. If she were to step on bench when the court down now, President next meets Jan. 7. She has Donald Trump would never missed Supreme choose her replacement — Court arguments in more further shifting the court than 25 years as a justice. to the right. Despite the fall in her The growths were chambers last month, found during tests Gins- Ginsburg had returned to burg had after she frac- her normal active sched- tured ribs in a fall in her ule. She has attended an Supreme Court office Nov. event at the White House 7, the court said. honoring the late Justice Doctors at Memorial Antonin Scalia and was at Sloan Kettering Cancer the Washington opening Center in New York per- of a new movie based on formed a procedure called her life before she became a pulmonary lobectomy a justice. on Ginsburg. The growths The film, “On the Basis they removed were deter- of Sex,” opens more mined to be malignant in widely Tuesday. an initial pathology evalu- Ginsburg had surgery ation, the court said, citing for colorectal cancer in Ginsburg’s thoracic sur- 1999 and pancreatic can- geon, Dr. Valerie W. cer 10 years later. Doctors Rusch. found the growth on her Ginsburg is expected to pancreas in the course of BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE remain in the hospital for routine screenings as a Multicolored lights are among those adorning the balconies of Marina City in Chicago’s Loop on Monday. a few days, the court said. result of her first cancer. “If she doesn’t need Among other health prob- anything but the surgery, it lems, she also broke two is a very good sign,” said ribs in a fall in 2012 and Marina City’s holiday light plight Dr. John Lazar, director of had a stent implanted to thoracic robotic surgery at open a blocked artery in Board tries to clamp to midnight. The change The change was first re- when the buildings were MedStar Washington 2014. She was hospitalized was made in response to ported by Loop North converted from apartment Hospital Center. after a bad reaction to down, but residents “feedback from residents News. buildings to condominiums. “This is just luck” that medicine in 2009. keeping them up about lights from neighbor- But on a recent evening, a In 1990 there was an effort the growths were found Appointed by President ing balconies,” according to few balconies at Marina to feature more Christmas through those rib X-rays Bill Clinton in 1993, Gins- By Elvia Malagon a statement from the board City still were adorned with lights on their balconies. because accidentally dis- burg rebuffed suggestions Chicago Tribune this week. green, red and other lights The towers have been covered lung tumors tend from some liberals that “The board set this policy with mixed colors. The part of the Loop’s archi- to be early-stage when she should have stepped Days before Christmas, in order to ensure residents board has been sending resi- tecture since 1967, accord- surgery works best, said down in the first two years green, blue and red lights are not disrupted by high- dents reminders and warn- ing to the Chicago Archi- Dr.

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