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UP FROM THE ASHESMacron says Notre Dame could be rebuilt within 5 years as investigation begins. Page 5

The Evening Edition is published digitally every weekday at 4 p.m. and is a digest of the day’s breaking news.

TuesdayApril 16, 2019

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

2 EVENING EDITION ? CHICAGOLAND

Strong, mid-April sunshine on Monday melted much of the snow cover left from ourweekend storm. Early in the day, satellite imagery showed a swath of snow from west-central Illinois to western Michigan. Any residual snow will be goneby Tuesday morning, allowing southwest winds to usher muchwarmer air into the metro area. Afternoon readings are expectedto approach the 70-degree mark before winds turn onshore. Mildair will dominate through midweek, with temperatures topping70 through Thursday. As the flow of warmer air strengthens,showers and thunderstorms will become possible. Storms aremost likely Wednesday night into Thursday. Much colder airis forecast to arrive Friday, but temps are expected to re-bound to around 70 degrees on Easter Sunday.

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Resolving a three-year legal battle, agroup of parents and high school studentshave dropped an effort to restrict bathroomand locker room access for transgenderpupils in the northwest suburbs.

U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso ap-proved the dismissal Monday, closing onechapter in a long-standing dispute that haspitted some students and parents againstPalatine-based District 211, the state’s larg-est high school district.

A separate lawsuit against District 211 bya transgender student who has sincegraduated — claiming its policies on lockerroom access were too restrictive — is stillpending in state court.

The dismissal in the federal case meansthe policies at the center of the controversy,which allow transgender students to usefacilities that correspond with their genderidentity, will remain in place.

“The District will continue our practicesof affirming and supporting the identity ofour students with access to bathrooms andlocker rooms,” spokesman Tom Petersensaid in a statement.

An attorney for the parents group suingthe district did not fully explain why herclients dropped the case. In a statementissued Monday, attorney Christiana Hol-comb of Arizona-based Alliance DefendingFreedom noted that two transgender stu-dents who were allowed to use the girls’locker rooms when the lawsuit was initiallyfiled in 2016 have since graduated. She alsosaid her organization will continue to“actively monitor the situation.”

“If new conflicts arise because the schooldistrict allows opposite-sex use of boys’ orgirls’ privacy facilities, such as locker

rooms, we will take appropriate legalaction,” she said.

On the other side, attorneys at theAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Illinois,who intervened in the case to representtransgender students, welcomed a long-awaited conclusion in the matter.

ACLU attorney John Knight said in astatement that District 211 still has long wayto go to make school welcoming for allstudents, including those who are transgen-der.

“There has never been any harm tonon-transgender students from sharingrestrooms and locker rooms with studentswhom they perceive as different,” he said.“The only harm has been to transgender

students who have been targeted withfear-mongering and misinformation. Stu-dents who are transgender have never beena threat to anyone in this school orelsewhere.”

Ed Yohnka, a spokesman for the ACLU,said Students and Parents for Privacy didnot discuss their decision to ask fordismissal, and he could not speculate whythey chose to end the lawsuit.

“This literally just dropped out of thesky,” he said Monday.

In Palatine, the controversy over bath-room and locker room rights dates to atleast 2013. That year, a District 211 studentfiled a complaint with the U.S. Departmentof Education’s Office for Civil Rights

seeking full access to the girls’ locker room.The student wanted to use the locker roomthat matched her gender identity, eventhough she was identified as male at birth.

In 2015, the department ruled the districtwas in violation of the Title IX law, whichprohibits gender discrimination in educa-tion.

After District 211 implemented policiesto bring it into compliance, the districtconstructed a private changing stall for thestudent. Students and Parents for Privacyfiled its federal lawsuit in 2016 seeking aninjunction to change the policy.

Students and Parents for Privacy arguedthat sharing bathrooms with transgenderstudents caused “embarrassment, humili-ation, anxiety, fear, apprehension, stress,degradation and loss of dignity,” courtrecords said.

In January 2018, Alonso ruled that hewould not order the district to halt itsbathroom policies.

Last week, the judge handed downanother ruling that dismissed some claimssought by Students and Parents for Privacy.In a 25-page ruling, Alonso also dismissedthe group’s president, Vickie Wilson, fromthe lawsuit for lack of standing but allowedparts of the legal action to proceed.

While the federal case has wrapped up,the case before state court judges remainsunresolved. In that matter, transgenderstudent Nova Maday sued the district in2017, saying the requirement to use a privatechanging stall was discriminatory. Maday,who is also represented by the ACLU, hassaid she should be allowed to change in thesame space as her fellow female classmates.Her case reached the state Appellate Courtin 2018 and was sent back to trial judges,where it is currently pending.

Parents abruptly drop lawsuit overtransgender student in suburban districtElyssa Cherney

Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jeremy Tedesco, who represents parents from Dis-

trict 211, announced their intent to file a lawsuit against the federal government in 2016.

ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

3EVENING EDITION ? CHICAGOLAND

La Grange businesswoman MarieNewman is seeking a rematch againsteight-term U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski in 2020after giving him the toughest challenge ofhis political career in last year’s Demo-cratic primary.

Newman, 55, announced her candi-dacy Tuesday morning on Twitter.

“We deserve a representative who willvote like a real Democrat in Congress —not someone who routinely sides with(President Donald) Trump and conserva-tive interest groups over his own constitu-ents,” Newman said in a tweet.

Lipinski, 52, a conservative Democratfrom Western Springs who was firstelected in 2004 to the seat long held by hisfather, garnered 51 percent of the vote inthe 2018 primary to Newman’s 49 per-cent. He easily won re-election in Novem-ber, defeating Republican candidateArthur J. Jones of Lyons, a Holocaustdenier with neo-Nazi ties, in a district that

stretches from the Southwest Side to thesouth and southwest suburbs.

“This isn’t going to be easy,” Newmansaid in a series of Twitter posts. “Machinepolitics. Deep-pocketed special interests.Conservative D.C. insiders. They’re alllining up to shut us down before we canget started. They don’t scare me.”

Newman ended the first quarter of theyear with more than $181,000 in hercampaign fund and nearly $161,000 inoutstanding debts, according to federalcampaign finance records.

Lipinski ended last year with morethan $450,000 in his campaign fund.Figures for the first quarter of 2019 aren’tyet available from the Federal ElectionCommission.

Newman’s announcement came a dayafter a lawyer and political newcomerfrom Bridgeport entered the race. AbeMatthew, 32, made the announcement ina one-minute video posted on Twitter.

“I’m running to be an advocate forworking families,” Matthew says in the

video. “I’m running to be an advocate forwomen. I’m running to be an advocate forimmigrants. I’m running to be youradvocate.”

Matthew, a graduate of MarquetteUniversity and John Marshall LawSchool, is a personal injury attorney andpartner in the firm Matthew & DrnovsekLaw. He and his wife, Shannon, have twosons: Atticus, 3, and Lincoln, 1.

“When my two little boys were born, Irealized I wasn’t a young man anymoreand couldn’t wait for the future to bebetter,” Matthew said in an interview.“We need to make the future better.”

Matthew, who said he voted forNewman in 2018, has never run for office.Last year he donated $400 to thecampaign fund of Aaron Goldstein, aDemocratic candidate for Illinois attor-ney general, according to state campaignfinance records. Nov. 25 is the first day forcandidates to file nominating petitionswith the Illinois State Board of Electionsfor the March 17 primary.

U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, right, and Democratic primary challenger Marie Newman talk at a League of Women Voters candidate forum.

NUCCIO DINUZZO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2018

Newman wants a rematchwith Lipinski in 2020 primaryDan Petrella

Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot has donated$500 after her campaign received the sameamount from a developer indicted last weekon federal charges alleging he steered legalwork to powerful Ald. Edward Burke inexchange for help at City Hall, according toa spokeswoman.

Lightfoot received $500 from business-man Charles Cui at a March fundraiser,Lightfoot spokeswoman Nadia Perl said.Now that Cui faces federal charges tyinghim to Burke, Lightfoot gave that amount toReform For Illinois rather than keep moneytied in any way to Burke, Perl said Tuesday.

Lightfoot is keen to avoid any connectionto Burke. She used Burke’s legal entangle-ments as a cudgel against several othermayoral candidates, including Cook CountyPresident Toni Preckwinkle, who Lightfootbeat handily in the April 2 runoff.

Burke was charged separately in Januarywith leaning on Texas-based executives tohire his law firm in exchange for help withpermits needed to renovate a Burger King at41st Street and Pulaski Road in his South-west Side Ward. Prosecutors also allegedthat Burke pressured one of the executivesto contribute $10,000 to the campaign of anunnamed local politician. Sources told theTribune the politician was Preckwinkle.

Lightfoot subsequently positioned her-self as the antidote to the insider style ofpolitics she said Preckwinkle and otherspracticed.

Burke, who has denied wrongdoing, wonre-election to a 13th term in February.

Lightfoot donatesmoney that hastie to Ald. BurkeJohn Byrne

CTA Red Line trains resumed normalservice after being rerouted Tuesday after-noon from the State Street subway follow-ing a mechanical issue that stopped a trainat the line’s Jackson Street station, author-ities said.

Trains were rerouted from the subway toelevated tracks starting about 12:20 p.m.,said Irene Ferradaz, a CTA spokeswoman.She did not have details about the problem.

Subway service resumed shortly after,according to the CTA.

Trains were congested and operatingwith delays, the CTA said.

— Liam Ford

Red Line back to normalafter mechanical problem

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

4 EVENING EDITION ? NATION & WORLD

The president isn’t waiting. As Wash-ington counts down the final hours untilpublication of the redacted special coun-sel report — now expected Thursday —Donald Trump stepped up his attacks inan effort to undermine potential disclo-sures on Russia, his 2016 campaign andthe aftermath.

He unleashed a series of tweets Mon-day focusing on the previously releasedsummary of special counsel RobertMueller’s conclusions — including acrucial one on obstruction of justice thatTrump again misrepresented — producedby Attorney General William Barr.

“Mueller, and the A.G. based onMueller findings (and great intelligence),have already ruled No Collusion, NoObstruction,” Trump tweeted. “Thesewere crimes committed by CrookedHillary, the DNC, Dirty Cops and others!INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGA-TORS!”

Press secretary Sarah Sanders repeat-edly tried to make the same case on TVtalk shows on Sunday. But the politicalbattle is far from finished over the specialcounsel’s investigation of Russian effortsto help Trump in 2016 and whether therewas cooperation with his campaign.

Democrats are calling for Muellerhimself to testify before Congress andhave expressed concern that Barr willorder unnecessary censoring of the re-port to protect the president. The HouseJudiciary Committee, led by Rep. JerryNadler of New York, is poised to try tocompel Barr to turn over an unredactedcopy as well as the report’s underlyinginvestigative files.

The Justice Department announcedMonday that it expects to release theredacted version Thursday morning,sending the findings of the nearly two-year probe to Congress and making themavailable to the public.

Mueller officially concluded his inves-tigation late last month and submitted theconfidential report to Barr. Two dayslater, the attorney general sent Congress a

four-page letter that detailed Mueller’s“principal conclusions.”

In his letter, Barr said the specialcounsel did not find a criminal conspiracybetween Russia and Trump associatesduring the campaign. However, contraryto Trump’s false claim, Mueller did notreach a conclusion on whether Trumpobstructed justice. Instead, Mueller pre-sented evidence on both sides of thatquestion. Barr said he did not believe theevidence was sufficient to prove thatTrump had obstructed justice, but henoted that Mueller’s team did not exoner-ate the president.

Portions of the report being released bythe Justice Department will be redactedto protect grand jury material, sensitiveintelligence, matters that could affectongoing investigations and damage to theprivacy rights of third parties, the attor-ney general has said.

The scores of outstanding questionsabout the investigation have not stoppedthe president and his allies from declaringvictory.

Attorney General William Barr’s initial summary of the special counsel’s report set the stage for Thursday’s anticipated release.

ANDREW HARNIK/AP

Trump tweets complaintsahead of redacted reportBy Michael Balsamo and Jonathan LemireAssociated Press

Google has backed off plans to open itsfirst retail flagship store in a Fulton Marketdistrict property.

The company last year was in advancednegotiations to open astore in a two-story,14,000-square-footspace in connectedbrick buildings at 845to 853 W. RandolphSt., the Tribune re-ported in August,citing people familiarwith the deal.

But Google has walked away from thedeal, and the space is now being marketedto other potential tenants by Chicago-based property owner Newcastle Ltd.,according to real estate sources.

It’s unclear why Mountain View, Calif.-based Google halted plans late in the leas-ing process, or whether a store could windup elsewhere in Chicago or another city.

“We don’t comment on rumor or specu-lation,” spokeswoman Kayla Conti said.

One location apparently not under con-sideration for a store is Google’s nearbyMidwest headquarters building, 1KFulton.

Last year, Google confirmed it was leas-ing additional space on the ground floor ofthe former cold storage building at 1000 W.Fulton. The company plans to use thatspace to train clients that use the compa-ny’s cloud services, Conti said.

Google has been rumored for years to beconsidering stores to sell hardware such astablets, smartphones and Google Home—the company’s version of Amazon Echo.

So far, though, Google has only openedshort-term pop-up stores such as one thatwas open on North Damen Avenue inBucktown at the end of 2018. Other pop-ups were in New York and London.

Newcastle’s space at Randolph andPeoria streets is expected to get a boostfrom nearby hotels bringing foot traffic tothe area, including the Soho House, therecently opened Hoxton and the Nobuhotel and restaurant expected to open thissummer. Nobu is in the final stages of con-struction directly across the street.

“That core customer is so affluent,”broker Greg Kirsch, Cushman & Wake-field’s head of Midwest retail, said of thehotels’ impact on retail space in the neigh-borhood. “I’m a huge believer in that area.”

Kirsch is not involved in Google’s deal orNewcastle’s leasing efforts.

Newcastle president and CEO MichaelHaney could not immediately be reachedfor comment.

Google backsoff Chicagoretail flagship

Ryan OriOn Real Estate

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

5EVENING EDITION ? NATION & WORLD

PARIS (AP) — The inferno that ragedthrough Notre Dame Cathedral for morethan 12 hours destroyed its spire and its roofbut spared its twin medieval bell towers,and a frantic rescue effort saved themonument's “most precious treasures,”including the Crown of Thorns purportedlyworn by Jesus, officials said Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macronpledged to rebuild the beloved RomanCatholic architectural landmark, andwanted to see it completed within fiveyears.

“We have so much to rebuild,” Macronsaid in a televised address to the nation. “Wewill rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral evenmore beautifully. We can do it, and onceagain, we will mobilize (to do so).”

Authorities consider the fire an accident,possibly as a result of restoration work atthe global architectural treasure that sur-vived almost 900 years of tumultuousFrench history but was devastated in theblaze on the second day of Holy Week.

Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said theinquiry into the fire would be “long andcomplex.” Fifty investigators were workingon it and would interview workers from fivecompanies hired for the renovations to thecathedral's roof, where the flames firstbroke out.

Heitz said an initial fire alert wassounded at 6:20 p.m. Monday but no firewas found. The second alert was sounded at6:43 p.m., and the blaze was discovered onthe roof.

Investigators have already questionednearly 30 people, said a Paris judicial policeofficial, speaking on condition of anonymityin order to comment on an ongoing probe.

News that the fire was probably acciden-tal has done nothing to ease the nationalmourning for the symbol of national prideimmortalized in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel“The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

“Notre Dame has survived the revolu-tionary history of France, and this hap-pened during building works,” said influen-tial former Culture Minister Jack Lang.

Interior Minister Christophe Castanersaid there were still some risks to thestructure and that it was “under permanentsurveillance because it can still budge.”

A plan to safeguard the masterpieces andrelics was quickly put into action after thefire broke out.

The Crown of Thorns, regarded as Notre

Dame's most sacred relic, was among thetreasures quickly transported after the firebroke out, said Deputy Mayor EmmanuelGregoire. Brought to Paris by King Louis IX inthe 13th century, it is purported to have beenpressed onto Christ's head during the cruci-fixion. Also saved was the tunic of St. Louis, along, shirt-like garment from the 13th century,said Culture Minister Franck Riester.

The cathedral's famous 18th centuryorgan that boasts more than 8,000 pipesalso survived.

“The works of art, the most precioustreasures were secured last night,” Riestertold reporters, thanking teams from city

hall, the culture ministry, firefighters andthe bishopric who worked to save the items.

Some of the works were being trans-ferred from City Hall to the Louvre, wherethey will be dehumidified, protected andeventually restored. The minister said thecathedral's greatest paintings would beremoved starting Friday. “We assume theyhave not been damaged by the fire but therewill eventually be damage from the smoke,”he added.

The 3-meter-tall copper statues thatlooked over Paris from Notre Dame's96-meter peak already had been removedfrom the roof days ago and sent to

southwestern France as part of a 6 million-euro ($6.8 million) renovation on the spireand its 250 tons of lead.

Much was saved in the interior too. Theonly major work damaged inside was thecathedral's high altar, installed in 1989under Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. It washit when the spire collapsed, said LaurentPrades, heritage director for Notre Dame.

“We have been able to salvage all therest,” said Prades, who watched the recov-ery overnight. “All the 18th century steles,the pietas, frescoes, chapels and the bigorgan are fine.”

The three large stained-glass rose win-dows, among the most famous parts of thecathedral, were not destroyed, but mighthave been damaged by the heat and will beassessed by an expert, he added.

“The task is — now the risk of fire hasbeen put aside — about the building, howthe structure will resist,” said JuniorInterior Minister Laurent Nunez.

UNESCO Director-General AudreyAzoulay said work must begin immediatelyto protect the remaining structure.

The first 24-48 hours were crucial toprotecting the stone and wood structurefrom water damage and assessing the nextsteps, she told The Associated Press, warningthat parts of the cathedral remain “extremelyfragile,” notably hundreds of tons of scaffold-ing around the spire that collapsed. NotreDame is part of a UNESCO heritage site andUNESCO has offered its expertise.

Pope Francis offered his prayers thatNotre Dame, the “architectural gem of acollective memory,” will once again be ashrine to the Catholic faith, a symbol of theFrench nation and a spiritual and architec-tural gift to humanity.

In a condolence note to Paris ArchbishopMichel Aupetit, Francis said the fire wasparticularly devastating given that it cameduring the somber days leading up to Easterduring which Christians commemorate thedeath and resurrection of Jesus.

Repairing the cathedral, including the800-year-old wooden beams that made upits roof, presents challenges.

The roof cannot be rebuilt exactly as itwas because “we don't, at the moment, havetrees on our territory of the size that werecut in the 13th century,” said Bertrand deFeydeau, vice president of preservationgroup Fondation du Patrimoine, adding theroof restoration work would have to usenew technology.

Also of concern, Feydeau said, is theorgan, “a very fragile instrument, especiallyits pipes.”

“It has not burnt, but no one can tellwhether it has been damaged by water.Nobody knows if it is a functioning state orwill need to be restored,” he told AP.

Macron vows Notre Dame rebuild Officials say a franticrescue effort saved itsmost precious treasures Associated Press

An interior view of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Tuesday in Paris shows the aftermath of a

fire that devastated the cathedral.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

6 EVENING EDITION ? A&E

She’s getting back into the groove.After weeks of social media tease, Madonna an-

nounced on Instagram the name of her 14th studioalbum: “Madame X” — the first since the criticallyacclaimed “Rebel Heart,” from 2015.

Then she revealed that the first single “Medellin”will release Wednesday. It’s a collaboration betweenthe legendary pop star and reggaeton superstarMaluma.

The Instagram post featured a photo of Madonnadressed in a white wedding gown, in bright red glovesand brighter red lips, with her arm wrapped aroundMaluma.

In a video, Madonna teased her new music.“I’ve decided to call my album ‘Madame X,’ ” she

says in the minute-long video, in a subdued, almostdemure manner. But as a snippet of her new musicplays in the background, images that seem to payhomage to some of the most iconic moments of hernearly four-decade-long career (“Like a Virgin”!“Erotica”! “Rain”! “Bad Girl”!) remind viewers of herever-staying power.

“Madame X is a secret agent, traveling around theworld, changing identities, fighting for freedom,bringing light to dark places,” she says before reveal-ing that Madame X is her new artistic persona. “Adancer, a professor, a head of state, a housekeeper, anequestrian, a prisoner, a student, a mother, a child, ateacher, a nun, a singer, a saint, a whore and a spy inthe house of love.”

— New York Daily News

CELEBRITIESTribune news services

Madonna at the MTV VMA awards in August. Now

she’s introducing a new artistic persona, Madam X.

NANCY KASZERMAN/ZUMA PRESS 2018

Madonna teasesnew music, alter ego

CHARLES SYKES/INVISION

It’s another girl! “Today”show co-anchor HodaKotb’s family has grown. Ina telephone call Tuesday,the 54-year-old told hercolleagues she has adopteda second child. Hope Cath-erine joins 2-year-old sisterHaley Joy, who wasadopted in 2017. Kotb saysHaley is marching aroundsaying, “I’m a big sister.”

Leakage: Marvel fansbeware. Footage of “Aveng-ers: Endgame,” the finalchapter of an interwovenstory that Marvel Studioshas been building since2008, across 22 movies, hasbeen closely guarded. Butwith less than two weeksbefore it hits theaters,“spoiler heavy” footage hasleaked online, spreading onReddit and Twitter. Socialmedia users posting videoclips and still images fromthe movie have alreadyseen their content disa-bled.

Minecraft the movie:The upcoming “Minecraft”movie will release onMarch 4, 2022. The“Minecraft” movie willfollow an unnamedteenage girl and her fellowadventurers, who musttake on the Ender Dragon.Their foe is on a path ofdestruction that threatensto destroy the blocky Over-world.

April 17 birthdays: Ac-tress Olivia Hussey is 68.Actor Clarke Peters is 67.Rapper Afrika Bambaataais 62. Actor Sean Bean is60. Actor Joel Murray is 57.Actress Lela Rochon is 55.Actress Leslie Bega is 52.Actress Kimberly Elise is52. Singer Liz Phair is 52.Rapper-actor Redman is49. Actress Jennifer Garneris 47. Singer Victoria Beck-ham is 45. Actress LindsayKorman is 41. Actor Char-lie Hofheimer is 38. ActressRooney Mara is 34. ActressDee Dee Davis is 23.

PASADENA, Calif. —Kate del Castillo was only6 years old when she de-cided to become an actress.She and her sister hadaccompanied their father,actor Eric del Castillo, tothe theater in her nativeMexico.

“I will never forget. Iwent with him and he wasin a play called ‘Salome,’and I remember beingbackstage with my sisterbeing nosy and mis-chievous. And I saw thisactress preparing back-stage in this beautiful cos-tume, and I was over-whelmed,” she recalled.

“And then I opened thecurtain just a little to see,and I will never forget, thetheater was shaped like ahorseshoe. It had bal-conies, and it was full. AndI was like, ‘Oh, my God, Ineed to be on this side!”

Three years later shemade her first movie withher father’s independentmovie cooperative.

“I thought, that’s what Iwanted to do, but I was tooafraid and insecure, whichI still am in so many ways,”she said.

“(When) I was 15, 16, Itold my parents that Ireally wanted to be anactress and I wanted it tobe my life, to be my career.”

Her father objected, shesaid, wanting to protecther from the rejection thatactors face. But she wasdetermined.

She starred in a series oftelenovelas and became ahot ticket all over LatinAmerica when she por-trayed a drug trafficker inthe popular “La Reina delSur” eight years ago. NextMonday she returns to therole airing on Telemundowith English subtitles. It’snine years later since hercharacter disappeared intothe witness protectionprogram, and the showpicks up where it left off.

“I’ve aged nine years,”she said, laughing. “Thefirst season I was pregnant,now I have a 9-year-oldkid.”

During the interim, delCastillo was pounding outthe telenovelas, but shesays she grew bored.

“I’ve always been grate-ful for the telenovelasbecause I learned so muchand they gave me the name— at least in Mexico,” shesaid. “But I was bored andI think I was a little bitbitter because telenovelaactresses and movie ac-tresses, it’s like you do oneor the other. They didn’twant me at all.”

So I said, ‘I think I’mgoing to do something elsebecause if nobody’s goingto hire me to do somethingthat’s challenging, then I’drather quit.’ ”

But she didn’t quit. Sheheaded for Los Angeles,hoping to spike her careerthere.

“When I got to LA it wasreally, really tough,” shesaid. “I was by myself. Iwas divorcing my firsthusband. I was starting mywhole thing from scratch,back to square one. No-body knew who I was, so itwas really hard. And therewas a time I didn’t work atall. I was studying, study-ing and running out of

money and I was like, ‘God,this is so hard. I think Ishould go back to my com-fort zone.’ I thought it, butI never did it.”

The divorce exacerbatedthings, she said. “It was avery awful marriage, veryviolent, abusive and hor-rible, and I was alreadywell known, so the wholething came down because Iasked for the divorce.

“It’s embarrassing whenyou’re going through it, butto make it public is hor-rible. That’s one of thereasons I decided to comehere.”

After two years shebegan landing roles inprojects such as “Border-town,” “Weeds” and“Julia.”

Although she oftenconsidered it, she nevermoved back to Mexico. Shecontinues to work hereand says the thing lackingin her life is a soul mate.

“I was married twice, Idon’t want to be marriedagain. I don’t believe inmarriage. It’s been likeeight years since I fell inlove with someone, and Ithink it’s the right timenow. I needed those years.I dated, but nothing seri-ous, nothing that will getinto my heart, so I thinkI’m ready,” she said.

Actress follows her heartback to ‘La Reina’ revivalBy Luaine LeeTribune News Service

Kate del Castillo returns to her role as a drug trafficker

who went into witness protection on “La Reina del Sur.”

EVANS VESTAL WARD/NBC UNIVERSAL

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

7EVENING EDITION ? TV TONIGHTTUESDAY EVENING, APR. 16

PM 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00

CBS 2NCIS: “Hail & Farewell.”(N) \ N

FBI: “Conflict of Interest.”(N) \N

NCIS: New Orleans: “Jack-pot.” (N) \ N

News (N) ◊

NBC 5The Voice: “Cross BattlesPart 1 Results.” (N) \

The Village: “Laid Bare.”(N) \ N

New Amsterdam: “FiveMiles West.” (N) \

NBC 5 News(N) ◊

ABC 7Am House-wife (N)

Kids-Alright(N)

blackish(N) \

Bless This Mess (Se-ries Premiere) (N) \

The Rookie: “Free Fall.”(Season Finale) (N) \ N

News at10pm (N) ◊

WGN 9MLB Baseball: Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox. From Guaranteed RateField in Chicago. (N) (Live) \N

WGN Newsat Ten (N)

Antenna 9.2 Alice \ Alice \ B. Miller B. Miller Johnny Carson \ 3’s Comp.

This TV 9.3 ÷ (6:30) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (’78) ››› \ Poltergeist II: The Other Side (’86) ›› ◊

PBS 11Chicago Tonight (N) Finding Your Roots With

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Reconstruction: America After the CivilWar \N ◊

The U 26.1 7 Eyewitness News (N) The Game Engagement Broke Girl Broke Girl Seinfeld \

MeTV 26.3 Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Gomer Pyle WKRP Cinci. Hogan Hero Hogan Hero C. Burnett

H&I 26.4 Star Trek \ Star Trek: Next Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Star Trek ◊

Bounce 26.5 The Game The Game Lethal Weapon 2 (R,’89) ›››Mel Gibson, Danny Glover.

FOX 32MasterChef: “Junior Edition:Camp MasterChef.” (N)

Mental Samurai: “WeekFive.” (N) \ N

Fox 32 News at Nine (N) ModernFamily \

Ion 38 Criminal Minds \ Criminal Minds \ Criminal Minds \ Private ◊

TeleM 44 ÷ Exatlón EE. UU. (N) Betty en NY (N) \ La reina del sur Chicago (N)

CW 50 The Flash (N) \N Roswell, New Mexico (N) Chicago P.D.: “Justice.” Chicago ◊

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AMC Gran Torino (R,’08) ››› Clint Eastwood. \ (9:35) Gran Torino ››› ◊

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WE Law & Order: “White Lie.” Law & Order: “Whiplash.” Law & Order \ Law ◊

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WATCHTHIS: TUESDAY“Bless This Mess” (8:30p.m., ABC): This new sin-gle-camera sitcom, whichsounds a bit like “GreenAcres” for the newmillen-nium, stars Lake Bell andDax Shepard as newlywedsRio andMike, who decide togive up the NewYork urbanrat race in favor of Nebraskafarm life. After giving up theirhigh-paying jobs and relocat-ing, however, the pair quicklydiscover that “the simple life”just presents themwith a dif-ferent set of problems.

“NCIS” (7 p.m., CBS): After human remains are discovered in a construction siteand examined to confirm identity, Gibbs (MarkHarmon) and his team launch aninvestigation into themurder of aMarinemajor who previously had been listedas a casualty of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. His own personal history with thevictim gives Gibbs additional incentive to get to the truth behind her death in thenew episode “Hail & Farewell.”

“The Flash” (7 p.m., CW): Series star Danielle Panabaker, who plays Caitlin Snow,makes her directorial debut with the new episode “Godspeed,” which finds Barryand Iris (Grant Gustin, Candice Patton) severely at odds over how to respond tothe shocking news that their daughter Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) is conspir-ing with Thawne (TomCavanagh). Not knowingwhether they can continue totrust her, Team Flash goes throughNora’s journal.

“Roswell, New Mexico” (8 p.m., CW): After a dramatic revelation comes to light,Max,Michael and Isobel (Nathan Dean Parsons,Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles)clash over the best way to deal with the fallout in a new episode called “Creep.”Meanwhile, Alex (Tyler Blackburn) exposes a big secret about Project Shepard,then recruits Kyle (Michael Trevino) andMichael to help him investigate further.

“The Rookie” (9 p.m., ABC):While the rookies get ready for an important examthat will indicate whomoves forward to the next stage of training, Officers Nolanand Bishop (Nathan Fillion, AftonWilliamson) respond to amurder scene, wherethey learn the victimmay be linked to a potential terror attack on the city of LosAngeles in the Season 1 finale, “Free Fall.”

“Fosse/Verdon” (9 p.m., 10:02 p.m., 12:13 a.m., FX): A new episode called “Who’sGot the Pain?” flashes back to the fateful first encounter of rising Broadway dancestar Gwen Verdon (MichelleWilliams) and Bob Fosse (SamRockwell), the ambi-tious young choreographer whowould have a profound impact in terms of shapingVerdon’s career trajectory.

TALK SHOWS

“Conan” (10 p.m. 11:30 p.m., TBS): Comic Taylor Tomlinson.*“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (10:34 p.m., NBC): Formerprofessional baseball player Alex Rodriguez; actress Ashley Benson; Jade Bird per-forms.*“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (10:35 p.m., CBS): Actress LaurieMet-calf; actor Ramy Youssef; Cage the Elephant performs.*“Jimmy Kimmel Live” (10:35 p.m., ABC): Celebrity guests and comedy skits.*

* Subject to change

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

8 EVENING EDITION ? SPORTS

The NFL is releasing its 2019 scheduleat 7 p.m. Wednesday, leaving plenty of timefor leaks — and there already is anotherinvolving the Bears.

They’ll play the Raiders in London onOct. 6, according to WGN-AM 720’s HarryTeinowitz, who for years has reliablypublished Bears game dates against specif-ic opponents before the league’s official

announcement.The full, grand reveal is scheduled for

both NFL.com and NFL Network. But ifrecent history is any indicator, largechunks of the schedule will surface beforethe official prime-time announcement. Socheck back over the next day and a half forbreaking schedule news as we learn it.

At the owners meetings in Arizona lastmonth, it was officially announced that theBears will host the Packers in the league’sseason-opening kickoff game on Thursday,Sept. 5. That prime-time rivalry will open

the league’s 100th season.The Bears are also expected to play on

Thanksgiving Day, facing the Lions at FordField, according to a February report fromthe Sports Business Journal.

In addition to home and away gameswith the Packers, Lions and Vikings, theBears will host the Giants, Cowboys,Chiefs, Chargers and Saints in games atSoldier Field. The Bears also will play roadgames against the Eagles, Redskins, Bron-cos and Rams in addition to the Londongame against the Raiders.

Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, calls a play against the Detroit Lions at Soldier Field Nov. 11.

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LET’S PLAY 2

The Sox need to get a Billy Martin type

of manager in there, someone who

will kick ass. They have the talent.

They need the leadership. Rick Rent-

eria is not the answer. Next… — Mike K.

I would love to see a Billy Martin type if

one still existed. I am not sure those days

are coming back. This is a big year for

Renteria to prove himself, but the young

players need to improve more than he

does. If they perform, he’ll be a good

manager. If not …

ASK THE REPORTER

PAUL SULLIVAN

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As the blaze guttedNotreDameCathedral in Paris,Chicagoans in Francewit-nessed the ruin.Page 8

Before the fire: Thecathedral we rememberBegun in 1163, constructionofwhat has been called theworld’smostmagnificentexample of FrenchGothicarchitecturewas completedin 1345. Officials said thestructure had been saved.Perspective, Page 15

Witnessinga catastrophe

PARIS — A massive fireengulfed the upper reachesof Paris’ soaring NotreDame Cathedral as it wasundergoing renovationsMonday, threatening one ofthe greatest architecturaltreasures of the Westernworld as tourists and Pari-sians looked on aghast fromthe streets below.The blaze collapsed thecathedral’s spire and spreadto one of its landmark rect-angular towers, but Parisfire chief Jean-Claude Gal-let said the church’s struc-ture had been saved afterfirefightersmanaged tostopthe fire spreading to thenorthern belfry. The 12th-century cathedral is hometo incalculable works of artand is one of the world’smost famous tourist attrac-tions, immortalized by Vic-tor Hugo’s 1831 novel “TheHunchback of NotreDame.”

The exact cause was notknown, but French mediaquotedtheParis firebrigadeas saying the fire is “poten-tially linked” to a $6.8 mil-lion renovation project onthe church’s spire and its250 tons of lead. The Parisprosecutors’officeruledoutarson and possible terror-related motives, and said itwas treating it as an acci-dent.As the spire fell, the skylit up orange and flamesshot out of the roof behindthe nave of the cathedral,among the most visitedlandmarks in the world.Hundreds of people linedup on bridges around the

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For good reason, onlook-ersweptMonday as theywatched the gut-wrenchingsight of flames engulfingNotreDameCathedral inParis and toppling its deli-cateGothic spire andwoodroof.The cathedral, with its

muscular bell towers,graceful flying buttressesanddelicate rosewindows,is amagnificent synthesisof engineering, architectureand art— amonument leftbymedieval builders thatstill dazzles themodernworld.ForCatholics,many of

whomregardNotreDameas amonument to religiousdevotion aswell as an archi-tecturalmasterpiece, thetiming of the blaze, duringtheweek leading to Easter,made it all themore searing.FrenchPresident Em-manuelMacron crystal-lized the thoughts ofmil-lionsMondaywhenhetweeted that the blazewaslike “a part of us being onfire.”With Paris fire officials

saying lateMonday thatthey had prevented the firefromdestroyingNotre

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Why tears wereshed over fireat Notre DameCathedral

The recent drownings ofa young couple in the Du-Page River have promptedcalls forWill County ForestPreserve officials to speedup the removal of a dam inShorewood.James Kennedy, ofShorewood, launchedape-titionApril 3 on change.orgafter Hannah Tammeling,22, of Plainfield, and Abra-hamRamos, 28, ofPalatine,drowned in the river nearthe dam at the HammelWoods Forest Preserve.Their bodies were foundApril 1 about a half-milefrom where witnesses had

seen them struggling in theriver near the dam the daybefore.The drownings havebrought new attention tothe low-head dam, whichwas built in the 1930s forrecreational purposes butwhich also has been thescene of other tragediesover the years. Though theconcrete and limestonedam is only about 4 feetabove the riverbed, author-ities have stressed the dan-gers of thedam,noting thatthe boil that churns belowit cansuckpeopleback intothe water and is very diffi-cult to get out of, even forstrong swimmers.

The concerns about the

Hammel Woods dam echothose about similar struc-tures across the state andnation, including in theWill County city of Wilm-ington, where about 20people have died near theKankakeeRiver dam in the

past 35 years.“I won’t be taking mykids to Hammel Woodsanymore because of thedangers of the dam,” Ken-nedy said after presenting

Turn to River, Page 7

Outcry for removalof dam after 2 drownOnline petition targets Shorewood siteBy Alicia FabbreChicago Tribune

A couple recently drowned in the DuPage River near thedam at the Hammel Woods Forest Preserve.

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The head of a shutteredChicago-area network ofgroup homes for adultswith disabilities has beenconvicted of acceptingkickbacks in a scheme tosteer biological samples toa St. Louis laboratory forpublicly funded testing.A federal jury foundReubenF.GoodwinSr., 53,guilty of 11 counts ofhealth care fraud and aconspiracy-related chargeearlier this month in Mis-souri. A sentencing hear-ing is set for July 12.The state-funded grouphomes run by Goodwin

were among those spot-lighted in a November2016 Tribune investiga-tion that detailed deaths,injuries and mistreatmentinside various facilitiesand day programs acrossIllinois. The Illinois De-partment of Human Serv-ices revoked Goodwin’slicense to operate his fa-cilities after state inspec-tors visited the propertiesanddetermined that all 45residents faced an “immi-nent risk” of harm.In a federal indictmentthe following year, prose-cutors said Goodwin andan employee, Phillip L.

Turn to Goodwin, Page 7

Head of closed grouphomes is convictedHealth care fraud in medical testingBy Christy GutowskiChicago Tribune

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People kneel on the pave-ment, above, as they prayoutside while watchingflames engulf the historicNotre Dame Cathedral, left,in central Paris on Monday.

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Cathedral’s spire collapses, but Paris’ iconic structure is saved

A look at the art inspired by “StarWars,”as seen at StarWarsCelebration 2019.Paul Sullivan: Soxhave seen somepositivesigns but not enough tomake fanswatch.

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