Today’s Headlines for Friday, April 26
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9:25 AM CDT on April 26, 2019
- “Wild Mile” Could Build Bike/Ped Paths Between North and Chicago by 2020 (Block Club)
- NTSB Will Investigate Beach Park Tanker Leak That Sickened Dozens of People (Star Tribune)
- BMW Driver Says He Fatally Shot Alleged Carjacker in Self-Defense (Tribune)
- Janice Meyer, 67, Died in Single-Car Crash in Des Plaines (Sun-Times)
- 4 Officers Injured After Squad Car Driver Strikes a Wall While Chasing Suspect (Fox)
- Curbed: Pilsen Residents Are in No Rush for the City to Establish a Historic District
- SBC Photo Contributor Eric Allix Rogers Discusses Chicago Architecture on ABC Tomorrow
- Groupon Cofounder Buys a $5.1M Loft With a 15-Car Garage (Curbed)
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