* Tribune…

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein campaigns in Chicago. She’s got a morning visit to the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, an afternoon “reality walk” in South Austin and an evening rally in Uptown.

* WLS TV…

A warrant is out for Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s arrest.

Stein, who is from north suburban Highland Park, tweeted a photo Wednesday that shows her spray-painting a bulldozer at an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota.

She was charged with criminal trespassing and vandalism. Stein campaign spokeswoman Meleiza Figueroa could not immediately comment on whether Stein plans to turn herself in.

Court records show Stein was charged Wednesday in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief. The same charges have been filed against her running mate, Ajamu Baraka. […]

Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rob Keller said the warrant has been filed and if authorities were to come across Stein, “they would arrest her.”

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Stein’s campaign, in a statement Wednesday, said the Green Party standard bearers were supporting Native American groups in protesting the construction of the Dakota Pipeline.

“In support of the action that stopped pipeline construction on Tuesday,Stein spray-painted the words ‘I approve this message’ onto the blade of a bulldozer that had been used to destroy sacred burial sites of the Standing Rock Sioux,” the campaign said in the statement.

A defiant Stein said in the statement that “I hope the North Dakota authorities press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs.”

“I hope they take action against the Dakota Access Pipeline company that is endangering drinking water not only for the Standing Rock Sioux, but for millions of people downstream of the reservation who depend on the Missouri River,” she added.

*** UPDATE ***  Sun-Times…

Morton County sheriff’s office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey on Thursday said Stein must be arrested in North Dakota, since the charges are misdemeanors.

“She has to be arrested in state, or unless she wants to cooperate,” Preskey said.

Both offenses are Class B misdemeanors.