Today’s Headlines
Pritzker Tears Down House to Make Room for “Mistake by the Lake” Garage (DNA) Customers Complain of Long Phone Waits While Activating Ventra Cards (Tribune) CTA Riders Say They Got Ventra Cards in Mail But Never Got Password Email (RedEye) Fifth Third Bank Removes ATMs From CTA Property Over Withdrawal Fee Dispute (Tribune) Woman Killed … Continued
9:00 AM CDT on October 8, 2013
- Pritzker Tears Down House to Make Room for “Mistake by the Lake” Garage (DNA)
- Customers Complain of Long Phone Waits While Activating Ventra Cards (Tribune)
- CTA Riders Say They Got Ventra Cards in Mail But Never Got Password Email (RedEye)
- Fifth Third Bank Removes ATMs From CTA Property Over Withdrawal Fee Dispute (Tribune)
- Woman Killed in Kane County Crash (Tribune)
- Man Charged With DUI in Fatal Woodlawn Crash (Tribune)
- Bomb Scare Delays Metra Union Pacific North Line (Sun-Times)
- Meeting on Kenmore Woonerf Tonight at 7 p.m. at DePaul Student Union (RedEye)
- Video: A Portrait of an Andersonville Bike Thief as a Young Man (CBS)
- Another Thief Caught on Camera Stealing Cycles in Old Irving Park (DNA)
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