Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 1
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9:09 AM CDT on October 1, 2015
- 150 Reps Take Action to Move Back PTC Deadline & Prevent Metra Shutdown (Crain’s)
- IDOT: Plan to Widen, Deepen the Ike Would Reduce Noise in Oak Park (Tribune)
- 11 Years Prison for Driver Who Was High on Several Drugs During Fatal Crash (Tribune)
- Driver Who Injured a Women in West Chicago & Fled Gets Probation, $33K Fine (Herald)
- 2 Injured When Driver of a Streets & San Truck Crashes Into a Building in Pilsen (Tribune)
- Arena Makes a Pitch for Jeff Park Development With 95 Units, 265 Spaces (DNA)
- Real Estate Agents Say They’d Be Happy to Pay for a Proposed All-Access Parking Pass (Crains)
- Active Trans Looks at Chicago’s Growing Collection of Low-Stress Bike Routes
- 800 Free Books Will Be Available at CTA Stations & Trains for Ideas Week (DNA)
- Faster Than a Speeding Bullet? “Man of Steel” Star Takes the Brown Line to Work (RedEye)
- Last Days of Big Marsh Funding Campaign — $500 Gets Your Name on the Wall of Chainrings
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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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