{"id":712884,"date":"2026-04-08T08:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/712884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:09:23","slug":"the-rundown-gov-pritzker-calls-for-trumps-removal-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/712884\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rundown: Gov. Pritzker calls for Trump\u2019s removal from office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good afternoon! It\u2019s Tuesday, and this is how my cats would react<\/a> to visiting the moon. Here\u2019s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

1. Gov. Pritzker wants to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office over his threats to Iran<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Gov. JB Pritzker joined a growing chorus of lawmakers and conservative pundits calling for President Donald Trump\u2019s removal from office for doubling down on graphic threats to bomb Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought again,\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cI don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will.\u201d That message came after an Easter Sunday post that threatened to bomb Iran\u2019s electric grid and bridges as he demanded the government in Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Pritzker, widely seen as a potential 2028 presidential contender, responded to Trump\u2019s latest threat by calling him \u201ca deranged man threatening to wipe out an entire country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s past time,\u201d Pritzker wrote on social media. \u201cThe 25th Amendment must be invoked.\u201d<\/p>\n

As my colleague Tina Sfondeles writes, Pritzker joined an unlikely alliance of conservatives calling for the president\u2019s removal, including former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, former MAGA ally and conservative radio host Alex Jones and conservative commentator Candace Owens. Podcaster Tucker Carlson is also calling on Trump\u2019s Cabinet to reject any plan that would lead to the deaths of Iranian citizens.<\/p>\n

Section 4 of the Constitution\u2019s 25th Amendment has never been invoked, but it would allow Vice President JD Vance and a majority of the Cabinet to transfer \u201can incapacitated President\u2019s powers and duties\u201d to the vice president, according to the Library of Congress. It can be invoked \u201cwhen the President is unable or unwilling to declare that he is incapacitated.\u201d [Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

2. Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover had his wife and a former New York mob prosecutor push a parole board to free him<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

John Gleeson said he prosecuted criminals similar to Hoover \u2014 people like John Gotti, the notorious \u201cTeflon Don\u201d and boss of New York\u2019s Gambino crime family.<\/p>\n

But Hoover is different, Gleeson said. He\u2019s \u201cgrown up\u201d and is remorseful, Gleeson told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, which is considering the 75-year-old former gang leader\u2019s request for clemency from Gov. JB Pritzker.<\/p>\n

As Frank Main reports for the Chicago Sun-Times, dozens of people attended a prisoner review board hearing Downtown today, where a three-member panel heard testimony from Hoover\u2019s supporters and from prosecutors who oppose letting him go free.<\/p>\n

One of them, Assistant Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Enrique Abraham, said a grant of clemency for Hoover would ignore the seriousness of the killing he\u2019s locked up for, minimize the crimes he later committed in prison and put the public in danger.<\/p>\n

Despite that opposition, Hoover and his supporters have increasing hope for his release despite decades of rejections in the state\u2019s separate parole process. That\u2019s because Hoover won a separate grant of clemency last year from President Donald Trump for a federal drug conspiracy sentence. [Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

3. Chicago\u2019s cherry blossoms are blooming \u2014 but for a limited time<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Some bright springtime news for your Tuesday: Cherry blossoms have started blooming a little early at the Columbia Basin south of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.<\/p>\n

As my colleague Michael Puente reports, the robust bloom is because of fluctuations in weather and temperature, combined with ample rainfall, and is expected to unfold over the next five to 10 days.<\/p>\n

But the trees may not stay like that for long.<\/p>\n

\u201cNature\u2019s ephemeral, and everything is contingent on how the winter went,\u201d said Michael Dimitroff, director of public art for the Chicago Park District. \u201cNature is the dictator. We, as practitioners, try to read what\u2019s happening. If we have a super hard winter and a mild rollout of warm weather, then it\u2019s a little easier to read that they\u2019re going to come out when weather starts to break and stays constant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overnight temperatures below 30 degrees were not expected to affect blooming, Dimitroff said, since it is expected to warm up this week. [WBEZ<\/a>]<\/p>\n

4. Sound & Gravity will return to the Avondale area over Labor Day weekend<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The locally run event\u2019s second edition will bring together more than 50 artists across seven venues around Chicago\u2019s Avondale and Roscoe Village neighborhoods. It will feature several genres, including jazz, experimental, contemporary classical and indie, my colleague Morgan Ciocca reports for Vocalo.<\/p>\n

The venues \u2014 Constellation, Hungry Brain, Beat Kitchen, Athenaeum Center, Judson & Moore Distillery, Rockwell on the River and Guild Row \u2014 are all located within a couple miles.<\/p>\n

Sound & Gravity\u2019s top billing includes psychedelic solo project Grouper, Contre Jour \u2014 a performance piece from former Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and experimental artist Leah Singer \u2014 post-rock band Son Lux, guitarist Marc Ribot and Ethiopian musician and composer Hailu Mergia. Colombian experimental artist Lucrecia Dalt, multi-instrumentalist and Grammy-winning producer Josh Johnson and Grammy-nominated drummer Kassa Overall are also slated to perform. [Vocalo<\/a>]<\/p>\n

5. A mystery-romance bookstore has opened in North Center amid a rise in specialty shops<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

During COVID, Jeff Morse realized reading could be an excellent way to cope with the doom and gloom of the pandemic shutdown. He dove deep into the world of mystery, horror and thriller novels with the encouragement of his wife, Amanda Morse, an avid romance reader.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s combined book tastes culminated in the opening of a new bookstore, Partners in Crime. Fittingly, it opened to the public on Valentine\u2019s Day, with a line out the door throughout the day. The two are the only employees, and Jeff still works full-time as a copywriter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the partners in crime,\u201d Jeff laughed.<\/p>\n

The niche business theme mirrors growing trends in bookstores; specialty shops were projected to lead the global book distribution market, according to a report by Fortune Business Insights. [Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what else is happening<\/b><\/p>\n