Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, July 26
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9:44 AM CDT on July 26, 2016
- UIC’s Urban Transportation Institute Releases Report on How IDOT Can Better Engage Public
- One Person Killed in Multi-Vehicle Crash on Stevenson That Resulted in Truck Fire (DNA)
- CTA Bus Driver Cited After Striking Mother & 3 Small Children, No Major Injuries (ABC)
- A Look at Illinois’ Special Purpose Districts (MPC)
- Whole Foods Discusses Why They Chose Pullman as the Site of Their Distribution Center (DNA)
- Major Taylor Cycling Club’s Elihu Blanks Discusses the Benefits of Cycling on WVON (Download)
- Anti-Cycling Crank John McCarron Cites Bike Lanes as a Symbol of Gentrification (Tribune)
- Divvy Station Installed by Sox Park, Valet Service Available During Crosstown Classic (DNA)
- FOTP’s Irizarry Will Discuss the Fight Against the Lucas Museum Plan 6/28 at the Hideout (DNA)
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