Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, April 5

• 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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