Today’s Headlines
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By
Steven Vance
9:10 AM CDT on October 30, 2014
- Residents Will Contest Proposed Tower Next to Renovated California Station Tonight (Curbed)
- CTA Debuted Electric Buses Wednesday to Test If They Can Last 100 Miles (Tribune)
- New Edgewater Strip Mall Begins Construction Around Corner From 24-Hour Red Line Station (DNA)
- Court Monitor Appointed to Track IDOT After Quinn’s Patronage Hiring Scheme Unraveled (Tribune)
- Metra Board Chair: We Need Fare Hike Because We Stopped Using Capital to Cover Operations (Tribune)
- CrossRail Is One of Several Options to Link Disconnected Metra Lines (Itinerant Urbanist)
- Screening Your Bag for Explosives Before Entering CTA “Not Overly Inconvenient” (Sun-Times)
- Divvy’s Valet Service – The Endless Dock – Finishes Season on Friday
- Columbia College Animator Draws Faces of the CTA (Sun-Times)
- Hundreds Ask for Better Bus Ride on North Lake Shore Drive (Red Eye)
- Two-Story Building on Damen Next to Bloomingdale Trail Sold for $3.5 Million (DNA)
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