Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 1

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  • Nearly 200 affordable housing units could be coming to west end of the Bloomingdale Trail (Block Club)
  • New study: Affordable housing is rapidly disappearing on the North Side (Block Club)
  • Details on judge’s decision that UP is under no obligation to provide service on 3 Metra lines (Railway Age)
  • 4 people injured in crash at 87th and Ashland in Auburn Gresham (CBS)
  • CTA temporarily stops Red Line lead paint removal in Uptown after “clouds of dust” escape containment area (Block Club)
  • AARP Illinois bought an ad in the Sun-Times to publicize the Recyclery’s artistic pothole-filling project
  • Cal’s Angels members are biking 1,000 miles Mt. Rushmore to Chicago to raise money for kids with cancer (KEVN)

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 30

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  • Ald. Ray Lopez urges city clerk to abolish residential parking permits (Sun-Times)
  • 17-year-old killed after crashing car into overpass pole, fire on Route 83 in Oak Brook (Tribune)
  • Semi-rollover crash blocks WB lanes on I-90 near Marengo-Hampshire (WGN)
  • 5 shot near Kinzie/Milwaukee, including bystander on a Divvy bike (ABC)
  • With people driving downtown to avoid transit, ride-hail, parking garage business is recovering (Crain’s)
  • Watch out for construction on the Skokie Valley Line bike path next month (The Chainlink)
  • ATA helps out with a walkability assessment in Cairo, Illinois’ southernmost city
  • Southwest Collective Community Bike Ride 10/2, 10 AM in West Lawn Park, 65th and Kildare
  • Planning sessions for the Altenheim Line trail 10/7 (in N. Lawndale) and 10/14 (online)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, September 29

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  • Groundbreaking for OPC, including pedestrianization of Cornell, widening of Stony, DLSD (Block Club)
  • CDOT website tracks the Jackson Park transportation changes, which will use $174M in state funds
  • Despite calls for police chase reforms after 2020 death, there have been more chases this year (CBS)
  • Hit-and-run driver killed woman, 52, waiting for bus, injured man, baby in car in Auburn Gresham (ABC)
  • Man, 27, found dead on  Clark/Division Red Line platform Tuesday morning (CBS)
  • DePaul’s Joe Schwieterman discusses the Empire Builder derailment that took 3 lives (ABC)
  • South Side Critical Mass meets this Friday 10/1, 5:45 PM at Nichols Park, 55th and Kimbark

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