Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 28

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  • 9 weeks into school year, nearly 4K CPS students still without reliable transportation (Block Club)
  • Vigil held for Gionvanni Leon, 7, fatally struck on Chicago Heights 4-lane next to playing field (ABC)
  • John Deere worker fatally struck while walking to picket line in Milan, NW Illinois (ABC)
  • Young father seriously injured after driver of stolen car ran red in Roseland speaks out  (ABC)
  • Man on bike, 32, struck and critically injured by driver near Grand/DLSD (Sun-Times)
  • Man, 45, stabbed in face with broken bottle on Blue Line near Chicago Ave. last night (CBS)
  • Habitat for Humanity seeks help building homes for veterans (Block Club)
  • Celebrate the season by taking a bike ride around allegedly haunted Graceland Cemetery (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, October 27

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  • Police rarely pulled over drivers on Far NW, SW sides, where many first responders live (Block Club)
  • Boy, 17, stabbed in leg with scissors on Jackson Red Line platform during argument  (ABC)
  • CPD: 1 in custody after driver of SUV taken at gunpoint crashes at 63rd/Damen (ABC)
  • Block Club looks at the plan to add decorative crosswalks to Rogers Park’s Metra corridor
  • Washington Park “Parade of Hearts” vandalized, volunteers sought to protect them (Block Club)
  • Cog Cycles Chicago moved to larger storefront closer to North Shore Channel Trail (Block Club)
  • CNT’s Jacky Grimshaw moderates Transit Center’s Equity in Transit panel on Thursday 2 PM

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, October 26

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  • Metra to break ground on long-planned Peterson Ridge station in Edgewater on November 1 (Tribune)
  • Tribune: Metra should embrace the West Loop. But why are infra improvements so slow and expensive?
  • Anti-cam group makes data-free claim cams are disproportionately impacting POC residents (The Grio)
  • …Meanwhile Lightfoot has proposed cutting traffic fines in half for low-income residents
  • ATA calls the CTA plan to reduce pass costs and eliminate transfer fee a win for equity (Bloomberg)
  • Man, 35-40, dies after being shot while driving, crashes into building on 5300 block of N. Western (ABC)
  • Mother of 3 siblings killed while boarding school bus opposes early release of driver (Tribune)
  • ATA awarded small stipends to 10 suburban advocacy groups and municipalities
  • Emmett St. TOD is getting new name and artwork in honor of Logan Latino community (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, October 25

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  • CTA was ready to attach Brown Line to new Belmont Flyover this weekend (Block Club)
  • Driver fatally struck Giovanni Leon, 7, in Chicago Heights (NBC)
  • 3 injured after Belmont Cragin carjacking, pursuit ends in 8-car crash (ABC)
  • Video captures moments after shooting, crash on Chicago’s West Side, injuring 2 (ABC)
  • Off-duty CPD officer injured when car struck on Metra tracks in Elmwood Park (CBS)
  • Man accused of robbing high school students on CTA train, ordered held on $50,000 bail (Tribune)
  • Duct tape and paint transforms walking and biking infrastructure in Peoria (ATA)
  • OnWord skate collective wants to change city’s skate culture from the ground up (Block Club)
  • What are the lines like nowadays at downtown destinations that are usually crowded? (Axios)

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