Today’s Headlines
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9:20 AM CDT on October 23, 2013
- CTA Calling Chicago Card Customers to Help With Transition to Ventra (RedEye, DNA)
- Waguespack Whines About Speed Cameras, Higher Parking Fees (Sun-Times)
- Editorial: Red Line Rehab Is a Transit Story With a Happy Ending (Tribune)
- Driver Rear-Ends School Bus, Ten Students Suffer Minor Injuries (DNA)
- Metra Electric Line Delayed Due to Wire Problem (Sun-Times)
- Metra to Release Report on Monday’s Crash in Bartlett (Tribune)
- So-Called South Lake Shore Drive Extension Opening at U.S. Steel Site (DNA)
- Video: a History of Wacker Drive (WCIU)
- Gallery: Faces of Ashland Bus Rapid Transit Supporters (Active Trans)
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