Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 7
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8:58 AM CDT on August 7, 2017
- Tribune: City Should Do All It Can to Make the South Works Redevelopment Successful
- Local Advocates Push for Law Requiring Vehicles to Warn You if Child Is Left in Car (Tribune)
- Former Uber Driver Charged with Reckless Homicide for Deadly Belmont-Cragin Crash (Tribune)
- Police Warn of Wheels Being Stolen From Cars in South Side Metra Parking Lots (Sun-Times)
- Pedestrian Rage: Man Walking Dog Pulls Gun on Postal Worker Who Ran Stop Sign (DNA)
- Southport TOD Plan Redesigned With Less Height, Density (Curbed)
- Large-Scale Murals Are Being Painted at LSD’s Fullerton Underpass (DNA)
- John Participates in a CAF Talk on the Future of Chicago Biking 8/21 6 PM at Revolution Brewing
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