Today’s Headlines for Friday, July 2

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  • ELPC: RTA’s proposed “performance-based standards” would just maintain the status quo
  • Four local road, bridge projects included in House infrastructure bill (Tribune)
  • CPD: Man shot in neck, critically wounded on Green Line near 51st was not intended target (Tribune)
  • Gun permit holder chases hit-and-run driver after minor crash, engages in gunfight, gets grazed in leg (ABC)
  • Teen arrested in Naperville for battery, underage drinking, “pedestrian under the influence” (Tribune)
  • Cappleman supports Weiss parking lot development with 314 units, only 8 on-site affordable (Block Club)
  • Mr. Dad’s Father’s Club to host a Father’s March in Englewood on Saturday (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, July 1

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  • Transit Union claims the possibility of posting armed guards on CTA is on the table (CBS)
  • Hit-and-run driver injured pedestrian in Schererville, Indiana (NWI Times)
  • $20.3 Million Fulton Market streetscape project finished after four years (Block Club)
  • Ravinia ticket-holders can use their concert ticket to ride Metra to the show (Tribune)
  • Block Club looks at the Folded Map Project, confronting harmful narratives South & West sides
  • 19-story life sciences building with 210 parking spots pitched for Fulton Market (Block Club)
  • Wheel & Sprocket opens new store in Park Ridge (Biz Journal)

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, June 30

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  • Witnesses: Motorist drove around Metra gates before crash that killed Essence Ransberry, 5, and 3 adults (NBC)
  • 6, including 4 children, were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after crash on Dan Ryan (CBS)
  • Man running red light crashed into sedan, seriously injuring 2 teens in Sauganash (Sun-Times)
  • Paintball gun attacks on people riding bikes in Mt. Greenwood (CBS)
  • DuSable Park advocates say Lightfoot has left them out of her $40M plan to finally build park (Block Club)
  • What eye-tracking glasses taught me about riding bikes in Chicago (Built In)
  • Every bike has a story. What’s yours? (Chicago Now)

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, June 29

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  • As Chicago reopens from COVID, traffic is getting worse (Tribune)
  • After vote to rename LSD for DuSable, Lightfoot says she will move ahead with DuSable Park plan (Tribune)
  • Noah Berlatsky: Lightfoot’s DSD opposition is to blame for “throwing the Council into chaos for weeks”
  • Essence Ransberry, 5, identified as child from Beverly Metra/car crash that killed 3 (NBC)
  • 75th Street boardwalk to be dismantled after 6/15 mass shooting, ongoing complaints (Block Club)
  • Hundreds of homes to be built for working-class families on West Side vacant lots (Block Club)
  • Loop ‘L’ trains have ‘major delays’ after small fire at Clark/Lake (CTA)
  • ENR Midwest takes a deep dive into the CTA’s Belmont Flyover project
  • Ida B. Wells monument to be dedicated in Bronzeville Wednesday (Block Club)

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