EXPANDED SPORTS COVERAGE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com ELECTION 2019 IT’S BALLOT TIME E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Mayoral candidates are, top row from left: Gery Chico, Bill Daley, Amara Enyia, Bob Fioretti, La Shawn Ford, Jeremiah Joyce Jr. and John Kozlar; and bottom row, from left: Lori Lightfoot, Garry McCarthy, Susana Mendoza, Toni Preckwinkle, Neal Sales-Griffin, Paul Vallas and Willie Wilson. The top two finishers will move on to an April 2 runoff. By Bill Ruthhart Daley saw a total of nine and John Byrne Voters to pick from largest field of mayoral candidates run, including six Chicago Tribune on the Democratic ballot and candidates in Chicago’s 181-year history one each for the Republican, Chicago voters will head to Socialist Workers and U.S. La- the polls Tuesday to pick from a then the top two finishers will to get the job done. the 2019 field of mayoral candi- bor parties. record 14 contenders to be- move on to an April 2 runoff to “Chicago has never had an dates is the largest in Chicago’s Chicago’s current baker’s come the city’s next mayor, an determine who will succeed election like this,” Chicago 181-year history. The record for dozen plus one of candidates exercise that almost certainly eight-year incumbent Mayor Board of Election Commission- the most candidates before this spent Monday scattered across will narrow the field down to Rahm Emanuel. Many of the ers Chairwoman Marisel Her- year dates to 1897, when Demo- the city to reach as many voters two finalists rather than decide campaigns privately have ac- nandez said Monday. “And we crat Carter Harrison Jr. handily as possible before the city’s an outright winner. knowledged they are hoping to may never see one like it again.” defeated seven other contend- 1,400 polling places open. Cam- If no candidate eclipses 50 surpass 20 percent of the vote After several trips to a dusty ers to follow in his father’s paign operatives furiously filled percent of the vote — a high to secure a spot in the runoff, warehouse to check records, footsteps as mayor. The 1977 the candidates’ Twitter feeds likelihood given the sheer num- with some believing a finish in election board spokesman Jim special primary following the ber of names on the ballot — the high teens may be enough Allen confirmed Monday that death of Mayor Richard J. Turn to Election, Page 7 Campus assault may get tougher to prove By Dawn Rhodes sex discrimination in federally Chicago Tribune funded educational programs — are themselves discriminatory After a University of Chicago against the accused. student reported to school offi- Such policies, the pending fed- cials last year that her former eral lawsuit contends, “emphasize boyfriend sexually assaulted her, a speed of resolution over due school disciplinary board ruled in process.” her favor and expelled the fellow Now the debate has taken on student she accused. new urgency, as President Donald But that wasn’t the end of the Trump’s secretary of education, story. Betsy DeVos, seeks to undo The student who was kicked Obama-era guidelines on how out then sued the university, college officials handle sexual arguing he was denied a fair assault claims against students, chance to defend himself. which critics said were unfair to In doing so, he joined a growing the accused. number of critics who say that Those leery of her proposals, university procedures for investi- however, fear an over-correction gating sexual misconduct under Title IX — a 1972 law prohibiting Turn to Campus, Page 6 ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE R. Kelly, right, accompanied by his attorney, Steven Greenberg, leaves the Cook County Jail on Monday. ANALYSIS R. Kelly pleads not guilty; Trump trusts his ‘great out of jail on $100K bail relationship’ with Kim By Megan Crepeau tinted windows. money over the weekend, but By Philip Rucker with the North Korean leader not and Jason Meisner “He’s nasty!” another woman court records indicate that on and Josh Dawsey only to bend the course of history, Chicago Tribune yelled. “He’s a (expletive) pedo- Monday a 47-year-old suburban The Washington Post but to shape his own legacy. phile!” Romeoville woman posted the “We have had such a great After three days in custody, Hours earlier, Kelly, wearing a bond for Kelly, identifying her- HANOI, Vietnam — His intelli- relationship,” Trump said Friday. R&B superstar R. Kelly walked bright orange jail uniform, self on the bond slip as “a friend” gence chiefs warn that North “If I were not elected president, out of Cook County Jail on pleaded not guilty to charges he of the singer’s. Korea is unlikely to surrender its you would have been in a war with Monday evening into a crush of sexually abused four victims, Earlier Monday, during his nuclear weapons. His advisers fret North Korea.” reporters and onlookers — both three of them underage, over a second appearance in the Leigh- that a breakthrough could prove The two men will enter their apparent fans and detractors. span of a dozen years. ton Criminal Court Building in elusive and that he might make an second summit together on “R. Kelly! R. Kelly!” one young To win his freedom, Kelly just three days, Kelly clasped his impulsive concession to score Wednesday as unorthodox lead- woman screamed as she tried to needed to post $100,000 — 10 hands behind his back as his headlines. And his allies around ers who are both distrustful of the video-record the singer as he percent of the $1 million bond attorney, Steven Greenberg, en- the world worry he could get global establishment, eager to pushed through the crowd and set by a judge on Saturday. He easily outmaneuvered. project dominance and deter- into a waiting black van with was unable to come up with the Turn to Kelly, Page 6 Yet, President Donald Trump is mined to maximize their power. steadfast in his determination to They are worlds apart — Trump meet face-to-face here this week is a septuagenarian mogul who with Kim Jong Un, aides say, fancies himself capitalism’s gold- Cubs’ Bryant shows he’s ready Back on job at Aurora plant because he has an unwavering en progeny; Kim is a millennial faith in the power of the pen-pal to move on from rough 2018 for first time since shooting relationship he has cultivated Turn to Trump, Page 9 David Haugh, Chicago Sports Chicagoland, Page 4 Chicago Weather Center: Complete $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere High Low Tom Skilling’s forecast 27 24 forecast on back page of A+E section 171st year No. 57 © Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Tuesday, February 26, 2019 CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT Chicago police released a blurry surveillance image related to the alleged attack on actor Jussie Smollett in Streeterville. Being watched could be a good thing, even if done unequally MEET JACOB TOBIA MARCH 12 stations and even into offi- being robbed at knifepoint there. cers’ laptops while they’re by three men in the Loop, What residents on the Come meet writer, producer and author Jacob Tobia. sitting in a squad car. who took a $12,000 en- South and West sides of the From interviewing former U.S. Presidents to working with I supposed that should gagement ring, $5,000 in city have plenty of, though, queer and trans youth, Jacob helps others embrace the make us feel safer. But it’s cash and their Louis Vuit- are red-light cameras and full complexity of gender and their own truth, even when also a little creepy. ton suitcase carrying other those flashing blue lights that truth is messy. Dahleen Glanton It’s impressive, though, valuables. Airport security hanging from utility poles, Jacob’s soon-to-be-released memoir “Sissy: A Coming- how quickly police were footage showed the couple signifying that it is a high- of-Gender Story” follows Jacob’s story from the moment One of the most embar- able to track down those at O’Hare with no luggage crime area. Those don’t do a doctor put “male” on the birth certificate though rassing experiences of my two shadowy figures seen with them. anything to stop criminal Jacob’s work today. With fierce honesty, wildly irreverent life happened years ago on on videotape walking in the At this point, you might activity. humor, and wrenching vulnerability, Sissy takes readers North Michigan Avenue in area where Smollett re- wonder how, in a city with In some South and West on an odyssey sure to make you never think about gender broad daylight. ported he had been at- such advanced video cam- side neighborhoods, how- – both other people’s or your own – the same way again. 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