Today’s Headlines for Friday, April 24
- Stay at Home extended to May 30, masks must be worn in indoor public spaces (Block Club)
- With libraries, retail outlets closed more homeless people are sheltering on the CTA (Tribune)
- Ex-Trib transpo columnist Hilkevitch wonders if packed ‘L’ trains will be a thing again (Sun-Times)
- Prosecutors: Man fleeing police caused crash in West Garfield Park that killed passenger (Tribune)
- 95th-bound Red Line trains skipping 3 Edgewater stations this weekend (WTTW)
- Blair Kamin reviews the Riverview Bridge, aka The Hot Doug (Tribune)
- Petition to reopen the Lakefront Trail for bike commuting breaks 1,000 signatures
- Don’t do Critical Mass tonight — do your own #CoronaMass instead
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