Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, April 5
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8:59 AM CDT on April 5, 2017
- Editorial: Tougher Penalties Needed for Distracted Driving (Tribune)
- Jack Burris, 66, Fatally Struck by Police Officer Remembered as “All-Around Great Guy” (ABC)
- WLPN Director Logan Bay Loses Half a Leg After Driver Pins Him to His Car (Reader, DNA)
- DNA Looks at the City’s Vision Zero Efforts to Reduce Pedestrian Fatalities
- Amara C. Eniya: MPC Report on Desegregation as the Route to Equity Is Misguided (Crain’s)
- Kankakee-Area Transit Agency Is Suing the State for Unpaid Funds (WBEZ)
- Draft of Southeast Area Wide Plan Released for Public Review & Comment (Active Trans)
- Hyde Park Herald Checks in With South Side Critical Mass
- North Branch Trail Alliance Hopes to Encourage Commerce Along the Path (DNA)
- Automated Bike Rental Returns to Dan Ryan Woods, North Branch Trail (DNA)
- CDOT Is Hiring Bike Ambassadors to Work From May to October (Active Trans)
- Working Bikes Shows Ovarian Psycos Doc, Hosts Discussion of Street Harassment on 4/6
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