Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, March 20
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• Block Club: Bring Chicago Home, which would have provided alternatives for unhoused people sleeping in trains and on the public way, seems to have failed
• Active Trans discusses the Transit Town Hall event the group hosted: "Our journey towards better transit requires unity and action"
• SUV driver struck turning sedan Tuesday around 11 AM at 87th/Western, killing passenger Tilisha Anderson, 37, and injuring 2 others, fled on foot (ABC)
• Worker killed, another injured after semi driver collided with bucket truck driver Saturday around 8:27 PM near Route 53/North Avenue in Lombard (NBC)
• 2 seriously injured after motorcycle rider, 20, collided with driver, 57, around 6:20 PM near Theodore Street/ Pebble Beach Drive in Plainfield (CBS)
• Social justice groups appeal City’s decision to block Democratic National Convention protests (Block Club)
• Community Meal pays tribute to Marin Lacson, 17, Barrington High School student fatally struck by Metra train while walking to school (Tribune)
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