- The Blue Line resumes normal service this morning (ABC 7)
- Increasing pickpocketing incidents on downtown trains and platforms (CBS 2)
- Privately operated bus crashed into bus shelter in Humboldt Park (Sun-Times)
- WBEZ looks into resolution forbidding aldermen from riding scooters
- Be on the lookout for deer in the roads, Mary Wisniewski writes (Tribune)
- Scooter startup Bird estimated value to be $2.5 billion (Fortune)
- The I-294 pedestrian bridge connecting Hinsdale and Western Springs to be removed (Tribune)
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