Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, May 10

• Sun-Times: Don't Vote for "Lockbox" to Prevent Raiding of Transportation Funds
• Architects Voice Support for the Lucas Museum Proposal (Sun-Times)
• 8 Injured After Car Driver Strikes CTA Bus in Chatham (Tribune)
• 45th Ward PB Election Doesn't Fund Austin Ave. Bike Lanes (DNA)
• Laura Washington: Ride-Share Solves My "Hailing While Black" Problem (Sun-Times)
• RFMA Wants 2-Hour Parking, Traffic Calming, Stoplight on Hubbard, Grand (Gazette)
• River North Parking Lot Could Become a Shopping Mall, Maybe More (Curbed)
• Neighbors Worry 1:1 Parking Ratio Won't Be Enough for Canaryville Development (Gazette)
• Cubs Letter Criticizes Tunney for Blocking Extended Hours for Outdoor Plaza (DNA)
• Steven Wrote the Intro to Chicago Magazine's Bike Week Coverage
• A Guide to Some of the City's Biking Hotspots (Chicago Mag)
• Hyde Park Venue The Promontory Hosts a Bike Tune-Up Session This Sunday 12-6 pm

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Streetsblog Chicago is currently in the thick of raising funds for our next year of publication. Once again, the Chicago Community Trust, a charitable foundation that was one of the early funders of SBC, has very generously offered us a challenge grant. If Streetsblog reaches $50K in donations and sponsorships by the end of May, the Trust will provide the last $25K needed to keep the site running into 2017 and beyond.

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If you’ve already contributed, thanks so much for helping us win the challenge grant. As an added incentive to first-time donors, as well as those who’d like to make an additional contribution, anyone who donates $100 or more from this point on will get a copy of my book “Bars Across America.”

Donate $200 or more and we’ll also throw in a copy of the anthology “On Bicycles,” to which I contributed a chapter about Chicago’s West Town Bikes, while supplies last.

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– John