Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 27
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9:38 AM CDT on October 27, 2016
- How Often Does the CTA Clean Its Buses and Rail Cars? (DNA)
- Pace Launches Park-and-Ride Service From Toyota Park to Downtown Chicago (DVN)
- State Lawmakers Ask EPA to Keep an Emissions Testing Site Open in Chicago (DNA)
- Loyola Students React to Metra’s Plans for a Fare Hike (Phoenix)
- Garbage Truck Crash Takes Out Pole, Shutting Down Power in Little Village (Sun-Times)
- Men Charged With Stealing Cars From Wrightwood Metra Station on SW Side (Sun-Times)
- Extra CTA Weekend Service Planned for World Series (NBC)
- 1,000 Police Officers Will Control Wrigley Pedestrian Traffic During Series Games (WGN)
- Images of the New Riverwalk Sections on Social Media (Curbed)
- What’s the Best West Side Bike Route While Lake Street Is Being Repaved? (Chainlink)
- WBEZ Talks With Nico Deportago-Cabrera, The Nation’s Top-Ranked *Male* Courier
- Sign Active Trans‘ Vision Zero Petition to Ask City to Do More to Combat Speeding
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