Today’s Headlines

• Jason Prechtel’s White Whale: Finding Out Exactly Why the CTA Switched to Ventra (Reader)
• 2 Men Arrested for “Inhibiting the Flow of Traffic” at Black Lives Matter Protest (Tribune)
• CDOT Is Reversing the Direction of the Alley Next to the Chicago Cultural Center (Sun-Times)
• Smooth Move: Yacht Club Worker Rescues Driver After He Plunges Car Into the Lake (WGN)
• A Rash of Necklace Snatchings on the Red and Blue Lines (Tribune)
• 4,000 People Participated in Active Trans‘ Commuter Challenger — Here Are the Winners
• Apple Is Moving to Pioneer Court — Will Reilly Stop Blocking a Divvy Station There? (Curbed)
• Unsavory News: Bridgeport Pasty Restaurant Temporarily Closed by Road Construction (DNA)
• Shoe Store Is Filming an Ad on the CTA Near Pritzker Park (RedEye)

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