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Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans, Who Promoted O’Hare Express, Steps Down (Crain’s) Van Driver Dies After  Crashing Into Semi Stopped on Expressway Shoulder (Sun-Times) WTTW Journalist Elizabeth Brackett’s LFT Bike Crash Death Ruled an Accident (Sun-Times) Man Shot While riding a Bike in Portage Park (Sun-Times) Petition Asking CTA & Metra to Install Anti-Suicide Lighting Has […]

Tollway and Canadian Pacific Reach Tentative Deal for Western O’Hare Access (Crain’s) Emanuel Calls for New 2% Airbnb Tax to Fund Shelter Beds for Abuse Victims (Tribune) Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Motorcyclist in Edgebrook (CBS) As Carjackings Rise, So Has the Number of Youth Arrested for It (Tribune) Gunshot Hits Door of 79th Street Red Line […]

Illinois Gets $132M Grant to Reduce South Side Rail Congestion (Tribune) Read Metropolitan Planning Council‘s Blueprint for Addressing Chicago Segregation Suspect Accused of Pushing Woman Onto Red Line Tracks Apprehended (CBS) The Tribune Looks at Thwarted Attempts to Build Affordable Housing on NW Side The Yard Social Reports on Last Week’s Transport Chicago Conference Experts […]

Huge CTA ‘L’ Car Deal Hits Snag in Washington (Crain’s) Moreno, Who Backed DoBi & Car2Go, Proposes Electric Scooter-Share Licensing (Sun-Times) Mayoral Candidate Bridget Gainer Has Racked up a Traffic Ticket Every 10 Days (Sun-Times) Blue Line Service Being Restored After Signal Problems at O’Hare (Sun-Times) New Rail Track in Lake Forest Not Necessary, Metra […]

CTA Getting Ready to Install 600-Plus HD Security Cams Funded by Ride-Share Fee (NBC) Activists: Make 30% of New & Rehabbed Housing Near Obama Center Affordable (Tribune) Police: Apparently Drunk Driver Fatally Struck Sandra Mitchell in Archer Heights (ABC) Preckwinkle: Carjacking Law Would Result in Unnecessary Incarceration of POC Youth (Crain’s) MPC Takes a Look […]

New CTA Stop, Covered Metra Tracks Planned for South Loop Rezkoville Site (Curbed) 1 Dead, 2 Critically Injured After Jeep Driver Crashes Into Pole in South Loop (Tribune) Hit-and-Run Driver Fatally Struck Rafal Ryndak, 28, on His Bike in Barrington Hills (CBS) Transformer Fire on Saturday Halted Travel To and From the Sheridan Stop (CBS) […]

Obama Presidential Center Faces Plan Commission Vote This Month (Curbed) Police Chase in Country Club Hills Results in 5-Car Crash, Multiple Injuries (ABC) Man Accused of Pushing Woman Onto Tracks at Armitage/Western Is in Custody (CBS) Repeat DUI Offender Who Told Cops to “Go Get Real Criminals” Is Acquitted (Tribune) Rauner Participates in Campaign to […]

Metra Has Been Running Shorter Trains, Which Means More Crowded Cars (ABC) You Can Take Metra to O’Hare, But You’ll Also Need to Take a Shuttle Bus (WTTW) Metra Positive Train Control Work Will Cause Delays on South Shore Line (NWI.com) Speeding Driver Causes 9-Car Crash in Gage Park, Flees the Scene on Foot (NBC) […]

$1.5M Settlement for Family of Girl Who Was Struck by a CTA Bus Driver (Tribune) Trains Rerouted After Man Found Dead on ‘L’ Car Near Howard (Sun-Times) What Effect Would Legalizing Marijuana Have on Illinois Traffic Safety? (Reader) City Council Approves Tripling the Fine for Downtown Double Parking to $300 (Tribune) NW Suburban Cary Will […]

After 6-Year Wait, New Metra & Amtrak Station Opens in Joliet (Tribune) Redevelopers of Motorola Campus Want Site to be “Urban, Dense & Walkable” (Herald) Parking Lot That Was Turned Into a Park at Wrigley Renamed “Gallagher Way” (Tribune) Alderman Michele Smith Rejects Proposal for TOD to Replace Gas Station (Curbed) Editorial: LimeBike Is Great, […]

Could Trump’s Trade War With China Affect the CTA’s Rail Car Contract? (Sun-Times) Man Charged With DUI After Abandoning Injured Girlfriend in Des Plaines (Sun-Times) “Worst DUI Offender in the Country” Arrested in Riverside (Sun-Times) Credit Card Payments Back Online for Naperville Metra Parking (Tribune) Plan for 700 Apartments Near the Argyle Stop Moves Forward […]

The Factors Behind Chicago’s Population Loss (Chicago Mag, Aaron Renn) Report: Poorly Maintained Roads & Bridges Cost IL Drivers $16B a Year (SJR) Waguespack: More Oversight Needed for O’Hare Express Approval Process (Sun-Times) Petition Asks Waguespack to Get a Speed Camera Installed on Logan Boulevard Federal Review for Obama Center’s Impacts Continues (Sun-Times) A Developer Is […]