Today’s Headlines

• CTA Construction to Eliminate Brown Line Slow Zones on Near North Side (DNA)
• CDOT Stripes Buffered Lanes on South Halsted (DNA)
• DuPage County Recommends John Zediker to Join Scandal-Plagued Metra Board (NBC)
• Shaw: Metra Board Member Shouldn't Have Donated to Preckwinkle Campaign (Sun-Times)
• Driver Killed, Passenger Critically Injured in Long Grove Wreck (Tribune)
• City Installing Stoplight at Broadway and Balmoral, Where Pedestrian Was Struck (DNA)
• After Attacks on Sauganash Trail Residents March to "Take Back the Trail" (DNA)
• Hyde Parkers Confused by Safe Passages Signs Since No Schools Have Closed There (DNA)
• Ventra Users Kvetch About the New System on Twitter (RedEye)
• Video: What Happens When You Don't Respect Metra's "Quiet Car" (Business Insider)

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