Today’s Headlines
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8:59 AM CST on November 15, 2013
- CTA to Bill Cubic Up to $33,750 for Ventra Outages (Tribune)
- New Ventra Issue: System Overriding Chase Debit Card PINs (Crain’s)
- Progressive Caucus Asks if It’s Time to Fire the Ventra Contractor (Sun-Times)
- Delays in Processing Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants (Tribune)
- Man Gets 50 Years for 2009 Road Rage Killing (Tribune)
- Tour Bus Driver Gets 34 Years for Fatal Streeterville DUI, Sex Abuse Case (Sun-Times)
- Sycamore Man Pleads Guilty for DUI Crash That Killed 11-Year-Old Boy (Tribune)
- CTA Narrows List of Potential Wilson Contractors Down to 5 Candidates (DNA)
- Metra Grayland Station to Get Pedestrian Refuge Island (DNA)
- SF’s Embacadero’s Waterfront Revitalization Is a Model for Chicago (Active Trans)
- Rules About Pets on the CTA (DNA)
- Ventra “Quick Is Here” Bus Ad Editorialized With Graffiti (Tattler)
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