Today’s Headlines for Friday, May 5

  • State: Selling Thompson Center Would Net Chicago $45M a Year in Property Taxes (Tribune)
  • Chicago Budget Director: No, It Wouldn’t (Politico)
  • Driver Charged With Reckless Homicide After Fatal South Loop Crash (DNA)
  • DUI Crackdown on the North Side’s Town Hall Police District This Weekend (DNA)
  • New Riverfront Public Spaces Need to Be Accessible to People With Disabilities (MPC)
  • Years After It Was Announced, Uptown Streetscape Work, Including Plaza, Will Start in 2017 (DNA)
  • New Interactive Map Shows How Much Apartments Near Transit Rent For (Curbed)
  • Chicago Bicycle Company Has Opened Stores in Printers Row, North Center
  • Love It or Hate It: You Can Now Buy a Toy Cubs World Series ‘L’ Car From the CTA
  • Meeting on Possible Removal of Red Light Cam at 95th/Stony on 5/9 (7th Ward)

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