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Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com House Dems open sweeping inquiry tee, which would be responsible Probe to examine Trump’s actions in, out of government for initiating impeachment pro- ceedings, asked for documents By Chris Megerian The investigation will probe with foreign governments. from 81 people and organizations, Los Angeles Times nearly every major controversy Democratic leaders such as and no corner of Trump’s life was that has shadowed Trump since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- spared. WASHINGTON — House he took office, including suspi- Calif., have been trying to tamp The president’s eldest sons, Democrats launched a sweeping cious Russian contacts, efforts to down talk of impeaching Trump. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric investigation Monday into impede the special counsel’s office The announcement reflects their Trump, and his son-in-law, Jared whether President Donald Trump and hush money payments involv- strategy of opening wide-ranging Kushner, all received letters. So and administration officials have ing the National Enquirer. Also investigations that increase pres- did Trump Organization execu- obstructed justice, abused their under scrutiny is whether Trump sure on the president and perhaps tives, including chief accountant power or acted corruptly, a mas- has violated the Constitution’s fuel a push to remove him from Allen Weisselberg and Trump’s MANDEL NGAN/GETTY-AFP sive undertaking that could lay the emoluments clause because he office if they choose to take that longtime personal secretary President Donald Trump dis- groundwork for impeaching the profits from his private company, step. missed the new House inquiry, president. which continues to do business The House Judiciary Commit- Turn to Inquiry, Page 9 calling it a “political hoax.” “Unless there can be some assistance for the middle class, ‘I’m going we will continue to lose them, which is a peril for Catholic education.” to feel like — Sister Dale McDonald, director of public policy at the National Catholic Educational Association Serpico, basically’ Cop sues city, says he was penalized for not changing a report By Jeremy Gorner Chicago Tribune A Chicago police sergeant has accused the department of trying to cover up the circum- stances of a shooting in which another sergeant wounded an unarmed teen with disabilities during an off-duty incident on the Far South Side in 2017. Sgt. Isaac Lambert, a super- visor who was assigned to investigate the shooting, al- leges in a lawsuit that a boss dumped him from the detec- tive bureau last month just days after he refused to change a police report to list the other sergeant as the victim of the incident. At a news conference Mon- day at his lawyer’s Loop offices, Lambert, 50, a Chicago cop since 1994, said he wouldn’t be surprised if the lawsuit makes him an unpopular figure within the Police Department. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE “I’m going to feel like Ser- Kindergartners enjoy free-time activities at St. Joan of Arc School in Skokie last month. Declining enrollment had the school in peril of closing. pico, basically,” he said in a reference to legendary New York cop Frank Serpico, who decades ago blew the whistle on police corruption and was ostracized by officers. A department veteran of Community salvation more than 24 years, Lambert has won the Carter Harrison Award and the Superintend- Evanston, Skokie parents pitch in, enable parish school to go independent ent’s Award of Valor, two of the city’s highest honors for police By Elvia Malagon | Chicago Tribune Church and community mem- at the National Catholic Educa- officers, according to his law- bers to raise thousands of dollars tional Association. The tradi- yers. When Holly Pickering and her husband were on the hunt for a while formulating a plan to create tional model of a parish school is “Always tell the truth and home in the Chicago area, one of their top priorities was finding one an independent board to run the hard to maintain unless it’s a always do what’s right, and school. In recent weeks, Cardinal wealthy parish or has a consistent don’t ever let some boss, espe- near a school where their children could plant their roots. Blase Cupich gave the group his number of parishioners contrib- cially someone who sits in an Her husband, Chris, thought back to his own upbringing and blessing, meaning that this fall uting, McDonald said. office all day at police head- the Academy at St. Joan of Arc “For most, the old model isn’t remembered that the nicest people he met at Loyola Academy were quarters, tell you to put your will start the school year as an working,” she said. “They aren’t name on something that’s not from St. Joan of Arc, in a part of Skokie that shares a ZIP code with independently run Catholic able to keep up with the cost.” right,” he told reporters. “You Evanston. They ended up buying a home so close to St. Joan of Arc that school. Over the decades, the number only have one reputation in life, The change symbolizes one of Catholic schools in the Chi- and make sure that’s one that it’s visible from the family’s kitchen window. way Catholic education is evolv- cago area has plunged alongside you can be proud of.” ing. Across the country, Catholic enrollment. The Chicago Archdi- The suit against the city of But the future of the school ing closing it because of declining schools are looking at what mod- ocese system had 429 elementary Chicago was electronically became uncertain last fall when enrollment. The news mobilized els can effectively finance schools in 1965; by 2017 that parents were told that the Arch- a group of parents like Pickering, schools, said Sister Dale McDon- Turn to Officer, Page 6 diocese of Chicago was consider- parishioners of St. Joan of Arc ald, the director of public policy Turn to Independent, Page 5 STEPPENWOLF THEATRE DIGS IN FOR AMBITIOUS PROJECT $54M facility includes theater-in-the-round use of the existing shell of the old Skyline Stage at Navy Pier. By Chris Jones in-the-round, built on the park- “When you look at Steppen- Chicago Tribune ing lot south of the theater’s wolf’s 45-year history, it’s been current 1650 N. Halsted home. marked by a constant desire to In a development likely to The long-in-gestation build- be innovative,” Eric Lefkofsky, reshape, and possibly reignite, ing, which has been designed by chair of the theater’s board of the Halsted Street corridor in the Chicago architectural firm trustees, said in an interview Lincoln Park and affect the of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Monday. “It’s become apparent fiscal and artistic fortunes of the Architecture and the British that the existing campus just Steppenwolf Theatre Company theater design company known can’t meet all our needs. We for years to come, the storied as Charcoalblue, is expected to wanted to give the artistic en- Chicago theater is to break open in the summer of 2021. semble all the tools they need.” ground Tuesday on an ambi- Those two firms previously By contrast with most arts ADRIAN SMITH + GORDON GILL RENDERING tious $54 million project that collaborated on The Yard at capital campaigns (as a point of A new facility on Steppenwolf Theatre’s campus is expected to will create a new education Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a provide an education center and a 400-seat theater-in-the-round. center and a 400-seat theater- $35 million project that made Turn to Theater, Page 7 Rush reports data breach affecting 45,000 patients ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ actor dies after suffering stroke Health system said to its knowledge, none of the information had been misused. Business Hospitalized since Wednesday, Luke Perry best known for role as rebellious teen idol. 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