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    • New Active Trans Survey in Support of Loop BRT Project
    • Argonne Wins $2.9 Million to Study How Transit Could Be Used to Evacuate City (Sun-Times)
    • Truck Driver Fatally Strikes Teen in Front of New Lennox School (Tribune)
    • 40-Car Pileup on Kennedy Between Ohio & North During Snowstorm, 12 Hospitalized (Tribune)
    • Metra Approves $91 Million Contract to Rehab 41 Locomotives (Sun-Times)
    • Kamin Digs McCormick 'L' Stop Design, Says Street Remixes Still Needed (Tribune)
    • Two Chicago Millennials Discuss Why They Still Drive (RedEye)
    • Sorry Fido, Metra Is Postponing Its Pets-on-Trains Pilot (Tribune)
    • Will County Is Launching Its First-Ever Bike Plan (Tribune)
    • 27th Ward Challenger Lambast New Fulton Market Gateway Sign, Burnett as "Idiotic" (DNA)
    • Active Trans' Lakefront Trail Tweets Keep Path Users Informed About Conditions (DNA)
    • And the Car-Alarm Complaint Prize Goes to... Lakeview! (DNA)

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