CHICAGO SPORTS A+E Revisiting ‘High Fidelity’ Parker Portis John Cusack traveling to Bulls deal Parker, screenings — including one in Portis to Wizards Waukegan — that include The move, which will bring moderated Q&A sessions Otto Porter Jr. to Chicago, closes book on Parker’s disastrous homecoming. BLACKHAWKS: The team is a playoff contender and needs to act like it, writes Jimmy Greenfield. EXPANDED SPORTS COVERAGE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Thursday, February 7, 2019 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Trump’s words fail to deter Democrats President should not bring threats to House, Pelosi says By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pel- osi said President Donald Trump’s insistence that lawmakers abandon their investigations was a “threat” that had no place in Congress, as unbowed Democrats charged ahead Wednesday with plans to probe Trump’s tax returns, business and ties to Russia. The chairman of the in- telligence committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, announced a ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE new investigation into Rus- Long before he was a mayoral candidate, Bill Daley was merely the youngest son of a connected mayor trying to pass his insurance licensing exam. sian interference in the 2016 election and Trump’s for- eign financial interests. “The president should not bring threats to the floor Daley’s break: Passed broker exam of the House,” Pelosi told reporters, rebuking Trump for saying during his State of the Union address that the under suspicious circumstances “ridiculous partisan investi- gations” must end because ‘73 insurance test DEBATE: Toni Preckwinkle they could harm the econo- faces slew of attacks in my. results tainted by latest mayoral forum. Pelosi said Congress has claim of inside aid Chicagoland, Page 5 a responsibility to conduct oversight of the executive By Todd Lighty Chicago Tribune Turn to House, Page 13 Daley’s test. As the two Bill Daley has passed the drank beer, Wills noticed bar to practice law and that Daley had not an- cleared security checks to swered several questions. work in the White House. Wills, the worker testi- But when he tried to pass fied, had a request: “I’d like Questions the state exam to sell insur- to do a favor for a friend of ance in Illinois as a young mine and fill them in.” man, he faced failure, scan- That friend, according raised over dal and embarrassment. to court records, was a First, the youngest son close ally of the mayor. Bill Grant Park of Mayor Richard J. Daley GEORGE QUINN/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Daley, who was not flunked. And when he Bill Daley works as a Democratic watcher during a vote canvass on March 24, 1976. charged with wrongdoing, nonprofit passed on his second try, in Three years earlier, he’d gotten a passing grade on his insurance licensing exam. denied any involvement 1973, the validity of the and kept his insurance Advocate said to insurance test later was pert handwriting analysis damning account of the The worker described license. questioned amid allega- and different inks pointed state employee who had being paid a Sunday visit Today, Daley is cam- have raised funds tions he received inside to two people filling in test administered the insur- by Robert Wills, a recently paigning for mayor as a district never saw help. answers. And then there ance tests and taken them fired colleague who took a The evidence? An ex- was the colorful and home over the weekend. particular interest in Bill Turn to Daley, Page 8 By Morgan Greene Chicago Tribune The Chicago Park Dis- trict for years ignored a BETRAYED prominent advocate’s resale of discounted Grant Park event permits to benefit his Judge to CPS: Boy’s nonprofit organization in- stead of the park, the dis- trict’s top watchdog says in sexual past off-limits a report released Wednes- day. History was sought “It is off-limits, totally off- An investigation into the limits,” Flanagan said. “I Grant Park Conservancy on teen allegedly don’t think it is relevant. I and its leader, Bob O’Neill, raped by another don’t think it is admissible.” raises questions about how The family of the student the organization “came to By David Jackson had filed a lawsuit against occupy a unique space in Chicago Tribune the board after the boy, at which the Park District’s the age of 15, allegedly was rules did not apply and very Lawyers for the Chicago raped three times in 2016 by few questions were asked.” Board of Education wanted a classmate at Bogan High For years, the conser- to question the family of a School who had a history of vancy obtained special student who had reported sexual aggression. The case event permits at a dis- being raped about the boy’s was featured in the Trib- counted rate meant for non- prior sexual history. une’s 2018 “Betrayed” in- profits and resold those On Wednesday, a judge vestigation, which exam- ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE permits with markups of up said no. ined hundreds of police to $25,000 to promoters of In a sharply worded or- reports about alleged sexual Flooding in Will County after ice jam breaks up for-profit festivals, the re- der from the bench, Cook abuse of students by school port found. The conser- County Circuit Judge Kathy workers and by their peers. Ken and Paula Chamberlin climb over ice chunks as the Kankakee River rises vancy raised about $1 mil- Flanagan said she would Both students had devel- into residential areas due to an ice jam breaking up near Wilmington on lion since 2002, purport- not permit that line of Wednesday. Water was receding by the afternoon, much to the relief of resi- questioning to go forward. Turn to Betrayed, Page 8 dents and emergency workers. Chicagoland, Page 4 Turn to Grant Park, Page 6 Chicago Weather Center: Complete $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere High Low Tom Skilling’s forecast 39 5 forecast on back page of A+E section 171st year No. 38 © Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Thursday, February 7, 2019 STEVE HELBER/AP Ralph Northam, center, walks down the reviewing stand in 2018 with Justin Fairfax, right, and Mark Herring in Richmond, Va. John Kass As we lurch toward 2020, whither the Democrats? America has been told, relentlessly, New York Senate chamber when The Virginia Democratic Black Face that the nation became officially and abortion up until birth, for any reason, Spectacular. VINTAGE PHOTOS OF CHICAGO irrevocably unhinged in November was approved and signed into state Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, 2016. law? who won office accusing his oppo- The @vintagetribune Insta- That’s when a vulgar reality TV star Gov. Andrew Cuomo had the One nents of racism, apologized for being gram, a photography ac- flipped off the calcified Washington World Trade Center lit up pink in in a racist medical school yearbook count produced by the establishment, became president and victory over helpless infants. And then photo. Then he said he wasn’t in the photo editors of the Chicago triggered much hysterical weeping he insisted that he was Roman Catho- photo but had worn blackface for a Tribune, has been mining the and teeth-gnashing among pundits lic and an altar boy. Cuomo’s skin must Michael Jackson dance contest in the archives. These are the and other palace guardians who play be made of wood. 1980s. He almost moonwalked for images that would have journalists on TV. Wood can’t blush. Wood can’t feel reporters until his wife stopped him. been posted had Instagram But as we lurch toward the 2020 any shame. And apparently, neither Then Virginia Attorney General existed in, say, 1932. This presidential campaign, what of the does the old altar boy. Mark Herring, a Democrat, admitted book is an inspired portrait Democrats? Most Americans don’t support he, too, wore blackface in the ’80s. of one of the world’s great Is the party of the angry American abortion deep into the third trimester. And the beneficiary of all the chaos, metropolises, told through the lenses of the countless left — moving ever leftward and angri- Most Americans wouldn’t applaud in Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, feet-on-the-street photographers from the city’s home- er by the minute — any more stable triumph. They’d feel shame for those was ready to succeed Northam when town paper. Get a copy at store.chicagotribune.com/ than Republicans of two years ago? clapping, like the old altar boy thump- he was accused of sexual assault. books. No. There’s a frenzy among the ing his chest in victory. And they’d feel When Supreme Court Justice Brett Democrats unleashed by the upcom- sorrow for the babies. Kavanaugh was dragged through the HOW THE NEWSPAPER GETS PRINTED ing presidential campaign. We haven’t That’s most people. But Democratic mud in his bloody confirmation hear- Visit the Tribune’s Freedom Center for a two and half seen its like except in those Hierony- politicians in New York felt the need ing, unfairly accused without evidence hour tour of the printing presses, press plates and enor- mus Bosch paintings of hell. to display triumph, loudly and stri- of being a sexual predator, Democrats mous paper rolls, and get a taste of the Tribune’s history. The Democratic center has col- dently. The leftward tilt of the Demo- and media allies shrieked that we had Movie critic Michael Phillips will also be there to give a lapsed. Moderates are hunted down cratic Party is almost a desperation, a to believe the women making the brief presentation about his job.