Today’s Headlines for Friday, February 18

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  • Voters should decide on Chicago’s new ward map, Latino Caucus and independent group say (Block Club)
  • $1.4 million settlement approved for mother of 13-month-old Dillon Harris, killed during police chase (Block Club)
  • After 2nd shooting outside The Point, Wicker Park merchants push for more policing of Milwaukee Ave. (Block Club)
  • Aurora City Council set to vote on contract for replacing pedestrian bridge over McCoy Drive (Tribune)
  • City previews 1st Phase Of Woodlawn affordable housing, but activists press to speed up timeline (Block Club)
  • Parking at development at 360 N. Green, near Grand Blue stop, cut from 256 car spaces to 90 spots (YIMBY)
  • Demo of shopping plaza at 4501 N. Sheridan, near Wilson stop, for 55-unit mixed-use building wraps up (YIMBY)

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, February 17

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  • Police confirm missing Round Lake man boarded Metra train before his disappearance last month (LMS)
  • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen members ratify new Metra contract (Progressive Railroading)
  • Metra is running MED trains overnight to keep overhead wires from accumulating ice (ABC)
  • The U. of C. Maroon newspaper looks at the current local and global cycling boom
  • Loyola Phoenix looks at Better Streets’ #PlowTheSidewalks campaign for municipal sidewalk clearance
  • A look at the Bicycle Museum of America, founded in Chicago in 1997, now located in rural Ohio (Alive)
  • Final design renderings for Naperville downtown streetscape will be presented at February 22 meeting

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, February 16

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  • Dorval Carter: CTA will let equity and inclusion drive decisions about service (Sun-Times)
  • 15-year-old boy attacks mother, steals SUV and causes fatal crash in Gary (Sun-Times)
  • Body of Thomas Howe, 24, missing since January car crash, found in Des Plaines River near Libertyville (Tribune)
  • Months after Nicholas Bailey, 30, killed in Roseland hit-and-run, family pleads for driver to come forward (ABC)
  • Suspect arrested for armed robbery of Metra conductor at Van Buren station (Fox)
  • City will rule on controversial Southeast Side metal scrapper’s permit by end of week (Block Club)
  • CDOT responds to protest over removal of Halsted bike lane for turn lane by stenciling bike symbols on sidewalk
  • Bryn Mawr bike lanes not funded in 39th Ward PB election, but other bike/ped improvements were (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, February 15

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  • Chicago saw 37K hit-and-runs in 2021, but just 306 arrests. Why do police solve so few of these crimes? (CBS)
  • Slain teen Sincere Cole, 15, lost mother in 2019 when she was struck at 69th Red stop as guard stood by (Sun-Times)
  • Deceased person found on Metra Electric District tracks on 51st Street in Hyde Park (WGN)
  • Active Transportation Alliance discusses the launch of the Chicago region’s first transit riders union
  • U. of C. students, neighbors want the school to spend $1B in reparations for its role in urban renewal (Block Club)
  • If a casino is built in Bronzeville, should it be accessible by ped bridges, or CTA and car (and bike?) only (Block Club)
  •  The Habitat Company buys 344 N. Canal, near Lake/Clinton stop, to build 343 apartments, 123 car spots (YIMBY)

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