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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, August 3

    • Tributes to MLK Planned on 50th Anniversary of March Through Marquette Park (DNA)
    • The Tribune Looks at the NIMBY Reaction to the Dodge Avenue Protected Lanes
    • Evanston Lifts Rules & Fees for Cabbies to Level Playing Field With Lyft, Uber (Tribune)
    • Hopkins: Need for Security Guards in Wicker "Higher Priority Than Bike Racks" (Tribune)
    • Police: Fender-Bender Leads to Arrest of Driver With a Bag of Drugs in His Mouth (DNA)
    • TOD Across From 35/Archer Orange Stop Would Have 36 Units, 3 Parking Spaces (Curbed)
    • Edgewater Observer: Granville Should Be Designated as a Ped/Bike-Priority Street
    • What Would the Streets of Chicago Look Like With No People? (Curbed)
    • "The Railcar" Theater Game Takes Place on a Runaway Blue Line Car (Chicagoist)
    • Public Input Meetings on West Town Master Plan Scheduled for August, September (DNA)

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