Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 1
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9:14 AM CDT on May 1, 2017
- Active Trans: Tri-State Tollway expansion will only lead to more driving
- Tribune: Emails Reveal IDOT Patronage Hiring Practices Under Pat Quinn
- Ramirez-Rosa Is Downzoning a Stretch of Milwaukee in Logan Square (Curbed)
- Police: Unprovoked Stabbing Attack on Red Line Near Addison Causes Minor Injury (CBS)
- Burnett Hopes Parking Ban Will Stop Rowdy Nighttime Parties at Touhy-Herbert Park (DNA)
- Milwaukee North Metra Train Stopped After Report of Suspicious Package (Tribune)
- So-Called TOD at Wilson/Clark Would Have a 1:1 Units to Parking Ration (Curbed)
- Western-Belmont Project Heads Into Home Stretch (DNA)
- Traffic Concerns Kill Plan for 15-Story Hotel in River North (DNA)
- South Side Critical Mass This Friday Leaving From Nichols Park in Hyde Park
- Public Meeting on Improvements to North/Damen 5/9 at Pritzker Elementary (CDOT)
- Lots of Events on the Lakefront Trail This Month (Active Trans)
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