Today’s Headlines for Monday, July 27
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8:59 AM CDT on July 27, 2015
- Mayor Proposes Strengthening TOD Ordinance — More on SBC Later Today (Tribune)
- CPS Cutting 270 Bus Stops, Creating Walks to Stops as Long as 1.5 Miles (DNA)
- Driver Fatally Strikes Pedestrian in Portage Park (Tribune)
- Police Are Investigting Fatal Zion Car Crash as a Homicide (Sun-Times)
- 3 People Struck, 2 Critically, in 2 Different Incidents at Same Des Plaines Intersection (Herald)
- Yet Another Attack on a Metra Conductor (DNA)
- DUI Strike Force in Albany Park Results in 67 Tickets (DNA)
- New Halsted Bridge Over the Ike Opens (Sun-Times)
- Extensive Delays on Metra Due to Fireworks-Like Track Fire Saturday Night (CBS)
- Tribune Columnist Barbara Brotman Goes on a Slow Roll Chicago Ride
- Holy Water: Citing Dearth of Fountains on The 606, Church Passes Out Free Bottles (DNA)
- Activists Strip Down to Their Skivvies on the ‘L’ to Promote Gender Equality (DNA)
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