Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 19

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  • Protect Our Parks turns to US Supreme Court in bid to stop OPC Construction (Block Club)
  • Male pedestrian, 21, killed in multi-vehicle Highland, IN, crash (NWI Times)
  • Man wanted for several hammer attacks on ‘L’ platforms and a CTA bus (CBS)
  • Wednesday’s lakefront bike crash victim IDed as former U. of C. research scientist George Sawicki
  • The First Ward has launched a participatory budgeting process to elect projects for menu funding
  • Grandfather ride across the country to raise awareness of high SW Side cancer rates (CBS)
  • Englewood is launching its first music festival (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, August 18

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  • Anti-BRT activist Romanelli pushes $2B “transit plan” to make it easier to drive on Lake Street (Sun-Times)
  • Man, 70, dead after “crashing his bicycle into a parked truck near the Field Museum” (NBC)
  • There have been a series of attacks on pedestrians in Loop, including assailants on Divvy bikes (FOX)
  • Amtrak-Metra ties are back on track after ruling on Union Station rent (Sun-Times)
  • Indoor mask mandate returning Friday to Chicago as city sees surge in COVID-19 cases (Block Club)
  • Proposal to redevelop Edgewater’s Wing Hoe site, 6 minutes from ‘L’, with 50 units, 25 spots (Block Club)
  • Mobile City Hall brings city stickers, parking permits and more neighborhoods (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, August 17

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  • Construction begins on Obama Center, which will include pedestrianizing park roads (CBS)
  • Citizens to Abolish Red Light Cameras calls for rolling back 6 mph speed cam threshold (CBS)
  • Tribune’s Rex Huppke takes a satirical look at the 6 mph ticketing rule
  • Sophie Elizabeth Allen, 27, killed by hit-and-run driver, had survived cancer, was newly engaged (ABC)
  • Driver Huda Alghazali, 25, killed, male passenger injured, in crash on the Stevenson (CBS)
  • Hit-and-Run driver badly injures West Loop community leader May Toy near Racine stop (Block Club)
  • Police called on skateboarding stowaway on the Metra Electric District line

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 16

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  • The Daily Northwestern has published a guide to transit for incoming students
  • Chicago red light cameras now ticket drivers going 6 mph over the limit (Chicago Tribune)
  • DCASE releases full list of upcoming outdoor events and festivals
  • There’s been a big uptick of graffiti on expressways and CTA stations (Block Club)
  • Driver strikes, kills pedestrian crossing the street at Addison and Fremont streets (CBS 2)
  • The renovation of Webster Avenue bridge is now underway (City of Chicago)
  • Chicago magazine ranks the suburbs by how suburban they are
  • Transit agencies around the country prepare for $107 billion investment via infrastructure bill (Washington Post)
  • Inside Climate News interviews Streetsblog Chicago co-editor, Courtney Cobbs

 

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