Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 4

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  • ATA has a letter you can send to CMAP asking them not to recommend funding road expansions
  • CBS: CTA violent crime is at a 7-year high so far in 2022. CTA prez on WTTW: “Crime on CTA is relatively low.”
  • U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski, who represented South Bend, killed in Indiana car crash (ABC)
  • Police seek SUV driver who seriously injured person on bike on 7/27 in 1300 block of N. Kostner (FOX)
  • Person injured after Amtrak train bound for Chicago collided with truck in Maryland Wednesday (ABC)
  • Person approached man, 21, on Red train on Near South Side, made “derogatory remarks” and stabbed him (Sun-Times)
  • BRAIN looks at impending closure of Chicago’s Cycle Smithy
  • Dunning’s family bike ride to increase cycling on Far Northwest Side is back this Saturday (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, August 3

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  • Block Club: CPD is arresting 1000s more Black drivers after traffic stops than they report
  • Transit TIF for Red Line extension would use $1B in property taxes, including from areas far from project (ABC)
  • Reboyras promises affordable housing at Belmont/Pulaski/Milwaukee after community push (Block Club)
  • Homeless shelter near Jarvis stop wins Hadden’s approval after drop-in center scrapped (Block Club)
  • Man, 58, killed after being struck by a hit-and-run driver, run over again at Pulaski/5th (ABC)
  • 1 dead, 1 injured in car crash at intersection of 159th/Cicero, 2 six-lane streets in Oak Forest (ABC)
  • On 7/22 a driver fatally struck Zain Jaber, 14, on his bike on 159th in Tinley Park
  • CTA once again offering its back-to-school tradition: “First Day, Free Rides” (Defender)
  • Crain’s reporter Greg Hinz recovers a lost wallet on the CTA, sees dozens of turnstile jumpers at State/Lake
  • Chicagoan Jim Kreps has biked 1400 miles around all 5 Great Lakes (WGN)

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, August 2

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  • Climate activists call on CTA to cancel diesel bus plans. They should also call for effective bus lanes (Sun-Times)
  • South Siders hope the Red Line extension, Transit TIF will bring jobs and development (Block Club)
  • Speeding SUV driver hits tree, crashes into Pete’s Fresh Market in West Elsdon, no injuries, occupants flee (ABC)
  • Driver plowed into seating area at Western/Ainslie/Lincoln in Lincoln Square, no serious injuries (ABC)
  • Police release photos of suspects from 7/8 crash that injured 6 in Old Town sidewalk cafe (ABC)
  • Orange Line service disrupted after man found dead on tracks near 25th/Archer (ABC)
  • Milwaukee Avenue bike lane upgrades begin after delay due to strike. Use this bike detour (Block Club)
  • Niles may add sidewalks where none exist. Some NIMBYs are opposed (Tribune)
  • Jean Dubuffet “Snoopy in a blender” sculpture will move from Thompson Center to 115 S. LaSalle (Art Newspaper)
  • Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg discusses bike-baiter and CTA handgun advocate John Kass’ move to Indiana

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 1

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  • 7 killed after speeding wrong-way driver strikes van with mother and 5 children on 1-90 (CBS)
  • SUV driver, 21, crashes into sedan in Park Ridge, killing passenger and critically injuring driver (WGN)
  • Driver fatally struck man on 4500 block of W. Diversey in Hermosa and fled
  • CPD officer seriously injured in crash with unlicensed teen at Madison/Central Park (WGN)
  • NBC Chicago interviews John about our city’s hit-and-run fatality epidemic
  • Can new 43 Green TOD revitalize Bronzeville without displacing residents? (Reader)
  • Lake Forest is replacing the bike-ped bridge over Woodland between Western and McKinley
  • CLA: Lolla results in near-peak ped counts on State Street and elsewhere in the Loop (ABC)

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