Today’s Headlines for Thursday, December 8
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9:00 AM CST on December 8, 2016
- 6 New Pace Bus Lines Will Begin Running Between O’Hare and Elgin on 12/19 (CBS)
- Survey: Midwesterners Worst for Texting, Racing Through Yellows While Driving (Tribune)
- Red Line Service Suspended between 55th and 95th Due to Medical Emergency (DNA)
- Metra/Car Crash Near 79th and Kedzie in the Ashburn Neighborhood (Tribune)
- Streetsblog Reader Who Filmed Stop Sign Scofflaw Drivers Elaborates on the Issue (Chicagoist)
- 299 High-End Micro Apartments Planned Near Cumberland Blue Line Stop (DNA)
- 20-Story Office Tower Proposed Near Ashland Green/Pink Station (Curbed)
- New App Facilitates Rental of Unused Condo Parking Spaces (Crain’s)
- After Trump Street Sign Flap, Ald. Beale Calls for Reforms to Honorary Sign Program (DNA)
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