Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 18
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9:05 AM CDT on May 18, 2015
- LSNA Calls for Property Tax Controls to Help Keep The 606 From Displacing Residents (DNA)
- 294 Killed in Illinois Crashes So Far This Year, 15 More Than This Time in 2014 (Tribune)
- CTA Contract Worker Electrocuted While Doing Work on Brown Line Tracks (Tribune)
- 2 Women Injured, 1 Critically, in Elgin Right-Angle Crash (Sun-Times)
- Activists Hold “Black Lives Matter” Demonstration on Red Line Train (DNA)
- Yellow Line Service Suspended After Embankment Gives Way (Tribune)
- Active Trans: To Judge Whether Chicago Is Bike-Friendly, We Need to Measure Level of Stress
- TOD Project With 33 Units, 6 Parking Spaces Moving Forward by Southport Stop (Curbed)
- Bikes N’ Roses Riders Near Springfield, Where They Will Ask Rauner to Restore Funding (DNA)
- Tips on Avoiding Bike Theft From Streetsblog Freelancer Brett Ratner (The Chainlink)
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In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John has written about transportation and more for many other local and national publications. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city and region on foot, bike, bus, and train.
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