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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, July 16

By John Greenfield | Jun 16, 2020 | No Comments

Active Trans looks at the impact of the transit shutdown during the George Floyd protests Kamin: Reopening the LFT is great, but it’s time to create on-street corona cycleways (Tribune) City launching pilot program to improve CTA bus connections on West Side (CBS) After driver broadsided another motorist in W. Elsdon, Good Samaritans rushed to […]

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, June 15

By John Greenfield | Jun 15, 2020 | No Comments

CTA introduces a new Ridership Information Dashboard with bus crowding info (ABC) UIC study analyzes how COVID-19 has changed travel behavior, lifestyles (WTTW) Death of Verona Gunn, 84, last May is more evidence of need for police chase reform (WTTW) 17-year-old David Aguilar and 17-year-old George Acosta died in Carol Stream crash (ABC) Man drove […]

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, June

By John Greenfield | Jun 12, 2020 | No Comments

First of car-free cafe streets are opening in Lakeview today (Tribune) Sections of riverwalk, including restaurants and rentals, open today with restrictions (Tribune) Tribune architecture Blair Kamin checks out the Leland Slow Street Driver fatally struck 2 seniors in Naperville crosswalk, no charges (Sun-Times) Girl, 15, killed after teen driver struck pole near Woodstock (Sun-Times) […]

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, June 10

By John Greenfield | Jun 10, 2020 | No Comments

Pritzker, Preckwinkle, Foxx join BLM march on Matteson’s bike/ped-friendly Unity Bridge (Tribune) Vasquez considers pedestrianizing parts of Balmoral, Catalpa, and Berwyn (Block Club) Lakeview leaders propose turning side streets into cafe zones (Block Club) 2 people killed after falling onto Red, Green tracks, Police chase disrupts Blue service (Tribune) One-year-old Lazel Bond died in crash […]

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, June 9

By John Greenfield | Jun 9, 2020 | No Comments

Best practices for keeping transit riders informed during COVID-19 (Active Trans) NBC: Lots of people are using the lakefront E. of LSD, even though it’s still technically closed Kamin: The lakefront is essentially open already, so open it for real with safety measures (Tribune) Ald. Sigcho-Lopez wants cafe streets in Pilsen and Chinatown (Block Club) […]

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