Today’s Headlines
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By
Payton Chung
9:20 AM CDT on May 19, 2014
- New Metra UP-North Station at Peterson Delayed One Year (Sun-Times)
- Better to Have No Bike Lock Than a Cable Lock in Chicago? (The Wire)
- 14-Year-Old Girl Killed By Driver on Route 53 in Joliet (CBS)
- Truck Driver Crashes Into CTA Bus at Cottage Grove & 79th, Injures 10 Aboard (RedEye)
- Get Ready For Many CTA Construction Projects This Summer (RedEye)
- Tribune Editorial on Illiana: “Don’t Build This Road” (Tribune)
- “Blue Line Hero” Eddie Palacios Earns Medal of Valor (DNAinfo)
- Red Light Scofflaw Solicits Donations to Pay His Tickets Via YouTube (Expired Meter)
- Join Ding Ding Let’s Ride for a Women’s Bike Brunch Picnic (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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