Today’s Headlines for Friday, September 3

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  • Developer touts benefits of One Central “transit hub,” widely viewed as a boondoggle (Crain’s)
  • More coverage of plan to improve safety at Logan/Western in the wake of 2 cyclist deaths (Block Club, CBS)
  • Residents weigh in on the new traffic diverters on Logan and Kedzie boulevards (Block Club)
  • SUV driver fatally struck Tyler Eberly, 15, on skateboard in Plainfield (Sun-Times)
  • Delivery driver fatally struck female pedestrian in Niles alley (CBS)
  • State trooper, 2 others injured in crash at 79th/Vincennes in Chatham (CBS)
  • Hit-and-run, intoxicated driver who injured 3 people, 2 critically, gets misdemeanor (CBS)
  • Chinese American Service League: Remap should create a new Chinese-majority ward (Sun-Times)
  • Rodriguez-Sanchez: Developer is trying to rush project to avoid affordability requirements (Block Club)
  • Englewood neighbors unhappy about plan for gas station at vacant land at 6700 S. Halsted (Block Club)
  • U. of C. is building yet another parking garage (Urbanize)

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 2

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  • 17-year-old-boy charged with murder of Keiwaun Crayton, 23, on Red Line near Garfield (CBS)
  • Forest Glen finally gets its own neighborhood sign on the Elston Metra bridge (Block Club)
  • Equiticity is hiring a mobility justice manager for North Lawndale
  • Chicago Cross Cup cyclocross race series cancelled as a COVID precaution
  • Win a free ticket to Bike the Drive this Sunday 9/5 (WGN)
  • Pullman’s historic clocktower and railcar factory grounds reopen on Labor Day (Tribune)
  • From September 12-19, Ride Illinois hosts “Let’s Ride, Illinois!” bike rides across the state

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, September 1

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  • Bill eliminating local match for walk/bike infrastructure becomes law (ATA)
  • Protesters want cop fired who grabbed Black woman walking dog along lakefront (Block Club)
  • 1 dead, 1 critically injured after motorcycle-van crash in Calumet Heights (Sun-Times)
  • After drowning in Rogers Park, neighbors installed life ring, park district removed it (Block Club)
  • Can the culprit(s) driving around in a white truck egging pedestrians be beaten? (Block Club)
  • Bike stuff happening in northwest Indiana this fall (South Bend Tribune)
  • Read and Run offers jogging tours of literary sites (Block Club)

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