Today’s Headlines
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9:03 AM CDT on August 5, 2013
- College Students Get Their Ventra Cards This Week (Sun-Times, NBC)
- CTA Rolls Out White-Painted Ventra Outreach Buses (DNA)
- Rough Week for Metra, Now Missing 4 Board Members (Tribune, Active Trans, Chicagoist)
- Top Orland Park Cop Refused O’Halloran’s Offer To Overhaul Metra Police (Sun-Times)
- Homeless Man found Dead in Ravenswood From Possible Hit-and-Run (DNA)
- Pedestrian Struck by Pickup Truck Driver Last Week in Dearborn Homes Dies (Tribune)
- False Alarm About Person on Tracks Delays Blue Line at Jackson (RedEye)
- Tone-Deaf Gazette Editorial Lumps Together BRT With Circle Exchange as Abuses of Power
- Surprise, Surprise: Divvy Stations Are Attracting Customers to Businesses (DNA)
- Washed-Out Fox River Trail Bridge Scheduled for Reconstruction (Sun-Times)
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