Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, January 18

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  • New bill would allow municipalities to impose a gas tax in Illinois (WREX)
  • Hit-and-run driver fatally struck Angel Thomas, 37, as she got into car in in West Garfield (ABC)
  • Motorist struck and killed. Derrick E. Smith Jr., 21, on Rte. 53 in Joliet (Patch)
  • 40th Ward residents elect projects including a ped island and bike lanes on Granville
  • Buffalo Grove trustees approve contract to design pedestrian crossing of 6-lane road at high school (Tribune)
  • More coverage of the upcoming permanent Chicago scooter program (TOC, Block Club)
  • 4 developments coming to 4400 block of N Clark, including one with no car parking (Block Club)
  • Ravenswood sculptor makes 10-inch replicas of Chicago-style homes (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, January 17

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  • Activists protested upcoming release of killer cop Van Dyke, calling for citywide CTA shutdown (Tribune)
  • Instead of getting fired, official in botched Little Village implosion gets written reprimand (Block Club)
  • Police: Driver blew a red light in Waukegan, causing 4-car crash that killed another motorist (NBC)
  • 19-year-old woman injured in shooting, crash near Joliet mall (Fox)
  • CBS: On average, a violent crime happened on CTA property every day in the past 30 days
  • Should “unremarkable” 111-year-old YMCA building near Naperville Metra be demolished? (Tribune)
  • Equiticity is holding the North Lawndale Racial Justice Ride for MLK Day today

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, January 14

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  • Man critically injured in shooting, 3-year-old girl grazed in Chatham shooting that resulted in car crash (ABC)
  • 2 hospitalized after Metra trains struck person at Millennium, car in Morgan Park Thursday night (Tribune)
  • CPD: 3 injured, including 2 officers, after driver ran a red at 79th and Stony Island (Fox)
  • CTA stabbing epidemic continues with assaults at Jackson Red and Washington Blue stations (ABC)
  • Writer Shawn Taylor says her “best day ever” would include a bike ride from Buckingham to MSI (Axios)
  • Take a survey to let the city know your transportation priorities for the 2022 Climate Action Plan

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, January 13

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  • CPS Teachers narrowly approve school reopening deal, but COVID-19 safety concerns linger (Block Club)
  • UIC researcher Stacey Sutton discusses the findings of her speed camera report (ABC)
  • Mark A. Molitoris, 45, fatally struck by a driver in Joliet (Patch)
  • 4 people shot near 63rd/King Green Line station Wednesday night (WGN)
  • A driver crashed through the wall of a Brighton Park clinic (ABC)
  • Railroad worker union and Metra reach tentative contract agreement (Progressive Railroading)
  • Greektown developer wins a reduction in car spots from 80 to 27, since Halsted is a P-street (YIMBY)

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