Today’s Headlines
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9:02 AM CDT on September 6, 2013
- 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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