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9:15 AM CDT on September 11, 2014
- Transportation Officials Discuss Big Plans for Union Station (Sun-Times)
- Active Trans Shares a State Transportation Platform With Gubernatorial Candidates
- Ventra Records Used as Evidence to Charge Man With 3 Sexual Assaults on CTA (Fox)
- Private Company Offering Service from Chicago to Madison on Vintage Rail Cars (Travel Pulse)
- 7 Injured After CTA Bus Driver Crashes Into Parked Car in Oakland (Sun-Times)
- Police Cracking Down on DUIs on North Side and in Back of the Yards This Weekend (DNA)
- CTA Board Approves Contract for Security Guards at Parking Lots (RedEye)
- Park District Selling Monthly Car Parking Passes at Loyola Beach for $129 (DNA)
- Chicago Cycling Club Hosts a Bike Ride to a Yoga Studio (DNA)
- Kickstarter Project to Post 100 Wacky Ads on Red Line Is Fully Funded (RedEye)
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