Today’s Headlines for Monday, January 9
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9:31 AM CST on January 9, 2017
- Thanks Obama: Feds Approve $1.1B Grant for Red & Purple Modernization (Crain’s)
- $50 Million Garfield Gateway Project to Improve Green Line Station Announced (Sun-Times)
- Police Shot and Killed a Murder Suspect Aboard a Metra Train in Deerfield (Tribune)
- DNA looks at Logan Square’s Affordable Housing Issues
- Anti-TOD With 38 Units, 52 Spaces Proposed Near Chicago Brown Line Stop (Curbed)
- Local Cyclists Share Tips on Winter Biking (RedEye)
- Chicago Has a 60-Year-Old Tugboat That’s Still Used for Breaking Up River Ice (DNA)
- Feeling SAD? Go Check Out the Cheerful Light Installation on the 606 (Chicagoist)
- Active Trans’ Winter Bike Commuter Challenge Takes Place January 13-27
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