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Chicago’s Six-Year Residential Construction Boom Is Tapering Off (Crain’s) Report: Due to Larger Households, Suburban Homes Can Be Greener Than Urban High-Rises (CityLab) Driver Injures Pedestrian in St. Charles (Tribune) Sources: City Will Pay $20M to Settle Lawsuit Over Fatal DUI by Off-duty Cop (Tribune) Cyclist’s Lawsuit Against Highland Park Revived by Illinois Supreme Court […]

CTA Riders Sound Off on the Planned 25-Cent Fare Hike at Budget Hearing (WGN) Active Trans Discusses It’s Proposal for 50 Miles of Dedicated Bus Lanes Driver Injured 61-Year-Old Woman Crossing Park Ridge Street, No Citations (Tribune) Hit-and-Run Driver Struck Couple Driving Away From Brookfield Zoo, Ran Off (Sun-Times) Man Who Was Assaulted by Metra […]

More Than 175 Industry Reps Have Signed up for O’Hare Express Pre-Bid Conference (Sun-Times) RTA’s Kirk Dillard: Without More State Funding, Train Delays Will Be an Increasing Problem (CBS) Amtrak Wants to Add a Lake Bluff Stop to Milwaukee Service, Some Locals Are Opposed (DNS) Metra Officials Discuss Strategies to Avoid Winter Train Delays (ABC) […]

Elon Musk (Who Blocked SBC on Twitter) Tweets That He Will Compete for O’Hare Express (Endgadget) Emanuel Comments on CTA Budget, Blames Fare Hike on State Cuts (Sun-Times) Active Trans Also Blames the CTA Fare Hike on State Legislators Lawyers Play Emanuel’s Code-of-Silence Speech at Hearing on Cop’s Fatal DUI (Tribune) Driver Hospitalized After Crashing Into Carol […]

Waguespack & Reilly’s Bid to Require Aldermanic Oversight of CTA Funding Fails (Sun-Times) The Tribune Ponders Uber’s São Paulo-esque Flying Taxi Scheme Metra Kicks off Fox River Bridge Replacement Project in Elgin (Sun-Times) Driver Injures Pedestrian in Elgin Crosswalk (Tribune) LaSalle Street Bridge Is Closed to All Traffic Today for Testing (Sun-Times) North by Northwestern […]

Emanuel’s Proposed Fee on Ride-Hailing to Fund CTA  Approved by Finance Committee (Tribune) Midway Renovation Includes 1,500 Parking Spots, New Pedway to Orange Line Station (Curbed) Suspect Charged in Hit-and-Run Crash in Bolingbrook That Killed Tricia Hoyt (ABC) Police Officer Crashes on the Eisenhower While Pursuing Carjacking Suspects (CBS) A Lane of the Dan Ryan […]

OEMC ‘Taking Over’ $30M Surveillance Camera Contract With Motorola (Sun-Times) Police Searching for Driver Who Fatally Struck Tracy Hoyt, 35, in Bolingbrook (ABC) Kelly Harris, 54, Who Was Blind, Fatally Struck by Metra Train in Midlothian (ABC) 6 Injured in Head-on Hit-and-Run Crash in Hermosa (CBS) Report of Person With a Gun Delays CTA Trains […]

Driver Killed Cyclist Lisa Schalk, 50, Yesterday Morning on Archer Near Midway Airport (Sun-Times) Mom of Crash Survivor Wants Allegedly Drunk Cop Who Struck Her to Work With TBI Patients (Tribune) New LAB Report Finds That Illinois Is Missing Opportunities to Improve Cycling (Active Trans) Metra Is Considering Building a New Stop Near Fulton/Ashland (Crain’s) […]

Guard Rails Will Be Installed Wherever New Separated Bike Paths Are Within 30′ of LSD (ATA) Like Friends of the Park, Midway Plaisance Advisory Committee Opposes OPC Garage (HPH) Too Many Government Units Drive up the Cost of Some Services in Illinois (MPC) Plans Unveiled for What Could Be the City’s 6th -Tallest Skyscraper (Tribune) […]

University of Illinois Plans Public-Private Research Center at Rezkoville Site (Sun-Times) Photos Released of Man Accused of Injuring 81-Year-Old in Brown Line Robbery (Tribune) School Bus Driver Hits Tree in Avondale, Hurting a Few of the Students (DNA) Neighbors Leave Shrine to Lewis Fost, a Man Who Lived in the Mayfair Viaduct for 3 Years […]

Sergio Romero, 61, Fatally Struck by 2 Drivers in Calumet City (Sun-Times) Police: Driver on Probation for DUI Seriously Injures Girl Outside Palatine High (Tribune) CMAP Floats Ideas for Trying to Keep Drivers From Getting Stuck in Expressway Jams (Herald) New Wave of Downzoning Measures Introduced for Milwaukee Avenue (Curbed) TOD Proposed at Clark/School With […]

Man Charged With DUI for Fatal St. Charles Township Crash (Sun-Times) Driver Injured Female Pedestrian Who Was Carrying Parade Baton Near Lane Tech (Tribune) Police: Man Charged After Dropping Gun on Red Line Tracks Near Sox/35th (Sun-Times) Evanston Officials Issue Express “Regret” for Arrest of Black 12-Year-Old on Bike (Tribune) Chance the Rapper Live Streams […]