Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 17
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8:55 AM CDT on August 17, 2017
- Metra Taps James Derwinski, Longtime Employee & Occasional Rail Commuter, to Run Agency (Tribune)
- Metra to Boost Hyde Park Service, Cut Some Trains to Blue Island, South Chicago (Tribune)
- Metra’s Rock Island Line Ends Weekday Express Service Pilot (DNA)
- 3 Aldermen Call for Extending the #155 Devon Bus to Metra’s Edgebrook Station (DNA)
- Robert Amos James, 25, Fatally Struck While Biking in Woodstock (Sun-Times)
- Prosecutors: Driver Who Killed Dominique Wilbourn Returned to the Scene, Left Again (Tribune)
- MPC: Whites Who Oppose Affordable Housing Via Density Arguments Are Part of the Problem (Tribune)
- Experimental Station Hopes to Buy a Vacant Firehouse to Expand Blackstone Bikes (DNA)
- Slow Roll Back to School Family Ride 9/9, 9 AM, at Dyett High School, 555 E. 51st
- Active Trans Is Seeking Volunteers for the Kickstand Classic Ride on 10/1 in Bartlett
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In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John has written about transportation and more for many other local and national publications. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city and region on foot, bike, bus, and train.
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