Today’s Headlines for Monday, December 21

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  • COVID bill includes $14B for transit, Amtrak, airports — advocates wanted $32B for transit (Tribune)
  • More coverage of ATA’s panel on preventing transit service cuts
  • RTA approved 2021 budgets, capital programs for regional transit (Progressive Railroading)
  • Police: Driver killed in Heart of Chicago rollover crash after running red (Sun-Times)
  • Naperville’s Metra lots are mostly empty. Survey shows demand might not return to normal (Tribune)
  • With no retail clients, developers want to convert Lincoln Park building to TOD housing (Block Club)
  • 450 units, 34 affordable condos near North/Clybourn, and 33 offsite affordable townhomes, approved (Block Club)
  • 2 buildings, 180 units coming to what’s currently a parking lot near Argyle Red stop (Block Club)
  • Schaumburg has received a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community designation from LAB (Herald)

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, December 18

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  • Coalition of advocate led by ATA calls for transparency on any future transit cuts
  • South Cook Fair Transit program gets final green light without CTA participation (Tribune)
  • Politico: Rahm Emanuel was considered “too toxic” for USDOT post, got a personal call from Biden
  • Driver fatally struck female pedestrian in Joliet (Sun-Times)
  • Naperville sisters die after car crash on drive home to visit their parents (Tribune)
  • More coverage of Divvy employee Jermell Akins’ fight to recover from a shooting (Block Club)
  • Lakeview merchants discuss the challenges of COVID plus the RPM work disruptions (Block Club)
  • Plan for 62 units, 6 affordable, 13 spots, Double Door near Wilson stop gets key approval (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, December 17

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  • Metra, Amtrak inform STB of remaining issues in Chicago Union Station dispute (Trains)
  • O’Hare employee Jijo George, 35, crushed to death while working on airport vehicle (Sun-Times)
  • Hit-and-run driver injured male pedestrian, 41, at Armitage/Kedzie in Logan Square (Sun-Times)
  • Council approves plan to convert part Of Lincoln Park church into apartments (Block Club)
  • Chicago base nonprofit Dare2Tri donates adaptive bikes to youth with disabilities (WGN)
  • Uptown building has 10,000 lights, field of inflatables to bring joy during pandemic (Block Club)
  • O’Hare embraces Pete Buttigieg’s description of the airport as a “place of romance” (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, December 16

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  • More local coverage of Biden picking Pete over Rahm for USDOT chief (Tribune, Crain’s)
  • Emanuel may still be getting an ambassador post (Sun-Times)
  • Driver charged with homicide in crash that killed passenger Lazaro Rosas-Garcia, 29 (Tribune)
  • Metra platform rifle shooter said he “he does stupid stuff when he drinks” (Tribune)
  • La Pasadita is selling building, eligible to be an equitable TOD, hopes to stay in business (Block Club)
  • New coach houses to be allowed under proposed law before aldermen today (Block Club)
  • ATA hosts a virtual town hall on the topic of food access and public transit on 12/15

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