Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM CDT on June 4, 2014
- 6 Chicago Congressmen Push for Restoring the Full Transit Tax Benefit (Crain’s)
- Metra Investigating “Scary” Driving by Rock Island Engineers (Tribune, Sun-Times)
- Allegedly Drunk SUV Driver Kills Pedestrian at North and Kennedy (DNA)
- Rolling Meadows Woman Dies in Single-Car Crash (RedEye)
- Truck-Bus Collision Shuts Down Lanes of Ryan; No Serious Injuries (Tribune)
- RedEye Looks at the Chicago Stats in the Portland State Protected Lanes Study
- Edgewater Residents Applaud Plans to Rehab Red Line Stations (DNA)
- Proposals Floated for TOD by the Wilson Red Line (DNA)
- Chicago’s Hated Parking Meter Deal Hurts Walking, Biking & Transit Too (Next City)
- Heart Association Giving CPR Lessons at Metra Stations (Sun-Times)
- “Dead End” Author Discusses Suburbia Today at Noon at MPC, 6:30 at City Lit
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