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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 1

    • 150 Reps Take Action to Move Back PTC Deadline & Prevent Metra Shutdown (Crain's)
    • IDOT: Plan to Widen, Deepen the Ike Would Reduce Noise in Oak Park (Tribune)
    • 11 Years Prison for Driver Who Was High on Several Drugs During Fatal Crash (Tribune)
    • Driver Who Injured a Women in West Chicago & Fled Gets Probation, $33K Fine (Herald)
    • 2 Injured When Driver of a Streets & San Truck Crashes Into a Building in Pilsen (Tribune)
    • Arena Makes a Pitch for Jeff Park Development With 95 Units, 265 Spaces (DNA)
    • Real Estate Agents Say They'd Be Happy to Pay for a Proposed All-Access Parking Pass (Crains)
    • Active Trans Looks at Chicago's Growing Collection of Low-Stress Bike Routes
    • 800 Free Books Will Be Available at CTA Stations & Trains for Ideas Week (DNA)
    • Faster Than a Speeding Bullet? "Man of Steel" Star Takes the Brown Line to Work (RedEye)
    • Last Days of Big Marsh Funding Campaign -- $500 Gets Your Name on the Wall of Chainrings

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