Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, August 3
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9:04 AM CDT on August 3, 2016
- 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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