Today’s Headlines

• 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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