EXPANDED SPORTS COVERAGE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Expert: Avoid being outside JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Pedestrians cross over the Kennedy Expressway as they head toward the CTA Blue Line’s Montrose station Monday. As of Monday night, CTA planned no weather-related service cuts. TOM SKILLING Recent deaths underscore WEEKEND FORECAST Extreme cold snap this week dangers of winter conditions likely to be life-threatening Tuesday Wednesday By Elvia Malagon cold exposure and hypertensive By Morgan Greene “If you don’t have to be outside, High 6, High -13, and Mary Wisniewski Chicago Tribune atherosclerotic cardiovascular dis- Low -23 Low -25 don’t,” said National Weather ease. Chicago Tribune Service meteorologist Amy Seeley. Complete forecast on back A 52-year-old man was seen Last week, a 12-year-old girl’s A+E section The frigid conditions could feel walking around Thursday night in death was tied to the cold weather of Chicago is bracing for bitter as low as 50 degrees below zero the city’s Little Village neighbor- in suburban Arlington Heights. cold nearing record-low tempera- with 30 mph wind gusts, accord- hood. By Friday morning, he was She had been playing in the snow HUPPKE: The ridiculously tures this week. ing to the weather service. Frost- found dead on the front porch of a with a 9-year-old girl when the fort cold weather is going to One of the coldest air masses in bite could hit in a matter of home, according to Chicago po- they had built collapsed on top of require some appropriate years will drop temperatures to minutes, experts say. lice. them. The girl, Esther Jung, of Elk polar profanity. Page 2 around 23 below zero by Tuesday Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the Gregory Gardner, who was Grove Village, died from asphyxia night, according to the National forecast for potentially life-threat- found in the 2500 block of South and hypothermia, according to the TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: For Weather Service, with a daytime ening conditions required an all- Ridgeway Avenue, was the 19th Cook County medical examiner’s the more vulnerable, high of about minus 14 on Wednes- hands-on-deck response from city cold-related death since Oct. 30 in office. headline-grabbing weather day and another plunge to minus agencies and community mem- Cook County, according to the These cold-related deaths come can be life-threatening. For 25 overnight. bers to ensure everyone’s safety. Cook County medical examiner’s as Chicago-area residents prepare the rest, it’s time to hunker The lowest temperature ever “While the snow may be ending, office. Gardner, of the 3800 block down but also lend a hand. recorded in Chicago was minus 27 of West Cermak Road, died from Turn to Deaths, Page 4 Page 9 on Jan. 20, 1985. Turn to Subzero, Page 4 Preckwinkle there for SEIU — and vice versa Mayoral race reaps winkle as one of the leading contenders in a crowded field of rewards of longtime 14 candidates. mutual support She can likely expect more where that came from. By Hal Dardick “We’re going to do everything Chicago Tribune we can to help elect Toni Preck- winkle,” said Tom Balanoff, When Toni Preckwinkle president of SEIU Illinois State Court Theatre wages her biggest political bat- Council. “That means what we presents gripping tles, the Service Employees In- have to do. We can really move a ternational Union has her back, lot of members, because we do ‘Photograph 51’ providing money, consultants have a big activist base, and Chris Jones, A+E and campaign workers. they’re going to be out working ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE In turn, the Cook County for Toni. And in terms of con- Strawberry Hampton says other Logan women’s prison inmates didn’t Board president has been good tributions, we’ll see where know she was transgender at first, but she told them anyway. to the union, giving its members things go.” Art Institute’s raises, adding more jobs, fur- Balanoff said it’s Preckwin- thering its political agenda and kle’s record as 4th Ward alder- haunting look at hiking taxes to shore up the man and County Board presi- Prison transfer suits slaves’ escape path retirement fund. dent — not her contract negotia- Now as Preckwinkle runs for tion history or effort to save A+E mayor, SEIU is all in. So far, the worker pensions — that drives transgender inmate union and its affiliates have SEIU’s support for her. He pumped nearly $2 million into pointed to her long advocacy for Says she no longer preceding her surname, Straw- the Toni for Chicago campaign living wages that are higher than berry Hampton’s mouth widens U.S., Taliban closer fund. That’s about two-thirds of federally required minimums, fears attacks as she did to a lustrous smile. the money she’s raised so far, while in men’s facility Just before Christmas, the 27- to peace deal that and it’s helped establish Preck- Turn to Union, Page 5 year-old transgender inmate was could end war By Angie Leventis granted a rare transfer to a Lourgos women’s prison in alignment Negotiators for the U.S. and Chicago Tribune with her gender identity. The the Taliban insurgents have move came amid her yearlong reached “agreements in The inmate applies a layer of court battle chronicling allega- principle” on key issues for a gloss to her full lips, pressing tions of abuse and sexual assault peace deal that would end 17 them against one another and by both inmates and corrections years of war in Afghanistan, smoothing the edges lightly with staff at four men’s facilities across the top U.S. envoy said Mon- her fingertips. Illinois. day. Nation & World, Page 7 As the warden approaches, she “At the end of the day, I’m safe tucks the tube back in the pocket here, I feel good,” she tells the of her navy-and-white uniform, Tribune during her first media which properly fits the curves of interview since her transfer to $2.50 city and suburbs, her newly feminine frame. Logan. “I don’t have to worry $3.00 elsewhere “Well if it ain’t Ms. Hampton,” about someone trying to attack 172nd year No. 29 the warden greets her, the jangle me for being a woman.” of his ring of keys reverberating In court documents, Hampton © Chicago Tribune from the walls of Logan Correc- said she endured beatings, sexual tional Center, a prison for women misconduct and transphobic JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2018 roughly three hours southwest of slurs — staff referring to her as Mayoral candidate Toni Preckwinkle has been endorsed by SEIU Chicago in Lincoln. Local 73, SEIU Healthcare Illinois and the Chicago Teachers Union. At the sound of the female title Turn to Prison, Page 6 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, January 29, 2019 JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE A pedestrian waits to cross North Cicero Avenue in the Six Corners area of the Portage Park neighborhood. 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