Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 7
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9:00 AM CDT on May 7, 2020
- Hit-and-run driver fatally struck man, 57 in North Lawndale (Sun-Times)
- 3 people, including 2 teenage girls, injured when driver slams into ‘L’ support pillar (NBC)
- 2 drivers without insurance crash on South Shore Metra tracks, no injuries (Tribune)
- Controversial City Observatory post uses Chicago’s open streets debate as a case study
- Public policy students have launched another petition to reopen LFT and pilot Slow Streets
- Despite low ridership, Metra will increase MED weekend service as part of PTC install (Trains)
- Virtual Ride of Silence event takes place Wednesday 5/20 at 6:30 PM
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