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Today’s Headlines for Monday, December 16

8:55 AM CST on December 16, 2019

    • Curbed: These were Chicago’s 10 most important projects of the past decade
    • Friends want justice for Dennis Ledenbach, killed on his bike in Joliet by a hit-and-run driver (CBS)
    • 7 injured after school bus driver rear-ends CTA bus in the East Side community (Tribune)
    • 2 hurt in stabbing at Cermak Green Line station Friday afternoon (NBC)
    • Police: Officer was injured after driver fleeing traffic stop struck squad car (NBC)
    • Man groped, restrained girl, 16, on Brown Line train near Belmont Saturday morning (ABC)
    • Watch a video of the latest MBAC meeting on the Bike Lane Uprising website (scroll down)
    • Critically ill children got a festive ride on a Metra train thanks to "Operation North Pole" (ABC)
    • According to this WBEZ piece on "dibs," anti-bike Tribune columnist John Kass coined the term

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Thanks for your support, and enjoy the holiday season.

– John Greenfield, editor, Streetsblog Chicago

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