Today’s Headlines
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By
Payton Chung
10:47 AM CDT on April 8, 2014
- NTSB Reports on O’Hare Blue Line Crash Causes, $9.1 Million Damages (ABC/AP, DNA)
- RTA Chairman Criticizes Quinn’s Transit Task Force, Asks for $5 Billion in Bonds (Sun-Times)
- CTA Re-Assesses Detours Around Blue Line, Will Post Larger Signs (RedEye)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Bicyclist in Evanston; Driver Caught (EvanstonNow)
- Cook County Population Booming, Like Other Metropolitan Cores (MPC)
- East Village Association Declines Ashland BRT Endorsement, 11 Nay to 9 Aye (DNA)
- RTA Chases Down Sales Tax Cheats in Kankakee (Marketplace)
- Local Nonprofit Gives Adaptive Bikes to Children With Medical Needs (Southtown Star)
- Where to Find Cargo Bikes in Chicago, Part 1 and Part 2 (DDLR)
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Payton Chung is Editor at Large of Streetsblog USA. He first addressed a city council about smart growth in 1996, accidentally authored Chicago's inclusionary housing law, and sees the promises and perils of planning every day as a resident of "beautiful as well as sanitary" Washington, D.C.
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