Today’s Headlines
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9:00 AM CST on December 15, 2014
- Quigley: $1.1 Trillion in New Federal Spending Will Help Chicago Transit Projects (Tribune)
- Metra Pushing for $1 Billion Project to Address Bottleneck on SW Side (Daily Herald)
- The Engineering Firm Behind the LSD Overhaul Specializes in Road Expansion (Transitized)
- 17-Year-Old Pedestrian Critically Injured in Hinsdale Metra Crash (Tribune)
- Metra Service Suspended After Allegedly Drunk Trucker Crashes Into Electrical Pillar (Tribune)
- Officer, Civilian Injured in Back of the Yards Crash (RedEye)
- UIC’s Obama Library Proposal Calls for Capping the Ike (DNA)
- CTA Is Donating 30 Retired Buses to Downstate Transit Systems (CBS)
- During Damen Stop Closure, Merchants Have Learned How Important ‘L’ Is for Sales (DNA)
- Etiquette Education Would Go a Long Way Towards Making Lakefront Trail Safer (Chicagoist)
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