Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, December 19
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8:59 AM CST on December 19, 2018
- City of Chicago Is Sending a Delegation to Check Out Musk’s Test Tunnel (Tribune)
- Ald. Burnett: New Damen Green Stop Will Right a Historic Wrong (Block Club)
- Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Pushing Another Man Onto ‘L’ Tracks (Tribune)
- Driver Charged With DUI in Crash That Killed County Correctional Officer (Sun-Times)
- Sydney Weber, 16, Identified as Victim in Ingleside Pedestrian Fatality (Sun-Times)
- MED Service Delayed by Investigation of Deaths of Officers Struck by Train (Sun-Times)
- Chaddick Institute Study Praises Peoria’s CityLink Bus Service (Pekin Times)
- Chainlink’s Yasmeen Schuler: How to Help Chicago Biking Achieve Actual Critical Mass
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