Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, April 14

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  • Officials announce start of foundation work on Obama Presidential Center, including new bike-ped routes (NBC)
  • SBC writer David Zegeye discusses push to preserve affordable housing near Obama Center (Block Club)
  • Man, 21, accused of pulling cop into vehicle during investigation, driving off and then crashing (Tribune)
  • Journalist with vision impairment discusses DOJ involvement in Accessible Pedestrian Signal suit (Beth Finke)
  • After more than 20 years of work, community farm coming to La Villita Park next year (Block Club)
  • The price of unleaded regular gas rose 11.7% in the Chicago area in March (Tribune)
  • Reader’s Deanna Isaac provides an update on what’s going on with the Chicago Monuments Project

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 13

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  • City deploys barricades, trucks in preparation for potential unrest over police shootings (Block Club)
  • Block-by-block analysis of where North Michigan stands after impact of pandemic, unrest (Tribune)
  • CDOT seeking station location input for West and Southwest side Divvy expansion (Block Club)
  • Bus driver fatally struck Agata Gorz, 42, in Palos Heights (Sun-Times)
  • After driver strikes and drags man, 44, in Logan, officials say new stop signs aren’t an option (Block Club)
  • Man stabbed in neck on Pulaski Blue platform is 4th CTA stabbing victim in last month (Sun-Times)
  • Prosecutors: Des Plaines man was driving 108 mph when he killed family of three (Tribune)

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, April 12

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  • Anti-transit lobbying group decries One Central transit hub plan as a wasteful boondoggle (Tribune)
  • Metra adding more trains as people start returning to office, but roll toward normalcy is slow (CBS)
  • Woman killed after wrong-way pickup driver crashes into her vehicle near Oak Park (Tribune)
  • 7 injured, including 2 children, in multicar crash in Englewood (Sun-Times)
  • CTA service was disrupted between Loop and Belmont this morning due to medical emergency (ABC)
  • Suspect in custody Sunday after violent robbery of woman at the Racine Blue stop this weekend (CBS)
  • Why there’s a shortage of bikes, and how you can make yours last longer (Daily Herald)
  • ICYMI here’s video from Saturday’s SBC event with Ald. Rosa, Meisha Herron, and Jill Sobule
  • Bike Lane Uprising holds a launch party for their gear at BFF bikes tomorrow 4/13, 6:30 PM

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