Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 24
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9:19 AM CDT on August 24, 2017
- CDOT’s Plan for Pedestrianizing Cornell Includes Adding Lanes to LSD & Stony Island (Tribune)
- Lack of TOD on the South Side, Need for More BRT Discussed at Lincoln Square Forum (DNA)
- Driver Turns Herself in After Killing Male Pedestrian, 45, and Fleeing the Scene (Sun-Times)
- Victim’s Attorney: IPRA to Release More Videos of Fatal West Side Police Crash (NBC)
- Man, 60, Seriously Injured After Collision With Another Cyclist on the Bloomingdale (Chicagoist)
- Lawsuit: CTA Bus Driver Knocked Down Woman, Ran Over Leg & Foot on NW Side (Sun-Times)
- Blogger Recommends Defensive Walking as a Response to Dangerous Conditions for Peds (RIC)
- Where Tickets Are Being Written for Parking in Bike Lanes (WBEZ)
- Dozens of Protesters Call for Renaming Balbo Drive and Removing Mussolini Pillar (Tribune)
- Some Recommended Route for Divvy Excursions (RedEye)
- “Blueprint for Bronzeville” Affordable Housing Activism Doc Screens on 8/28 (Chicagoist)
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