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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday December 5

8:58 AM CST on December 5, 2017

    • Wall Street Journal Praises Chicago's Investments in Public Transit
    • Video: RTA Chair Kirk Dillard Speaks at the City Club of Chicago (WGN)
    • Active Trans: Ride-Hailing Companies Should Be Required to Share Anonymized Trip Data
    • Pawar Calls for Council Hearings on Shuttle Bus Company That Released Anti-Chinese Ad (Sun-Times)
    • 90-Year-Old Man With Dementia Injured by Metra Train in Bronzeville (Tribune)
    • Cop Who Caused Brain Injury to Pedestrian Given Community Service, as Victim Requested (Tribune)
    • Video for 4-Tower "Urban Campus" Planned for 700 W. Chicago Plays up Transit Connections (Curbed)
    • Teen Commutes 6 Hours a Day by Car, Metra, and Bus From WI to Chicago to Study Dance (MRT)
    • Randy Neufeld, Gabe Klein Discuss Why Cycling Will Continue to Soar in Popularity (Alternet)

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