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  • Lightfoot provides a few more clues about what the reopening of the LFT could look like (Block Club)
  • Hit-and-run driver causes 6-car pile-up in Chatham, injuring one of the other motorists (Sun-Times)
  • Crawford plant redeveloper hit with $2,500 fine due to water running into canal (Block Club)
  • West Ridge’s Great Jewish Family Fest canceled, replaced with a car parade (Block Club)
  • MPC’s Debbie Liu named one of Crain’s magazine’s 20 in Their Twenties
  • “No place like home” mural installed by Bickerdike development at former L. Frank Baum site (Crain’s)
  • Cars sitting idle during Stay at Home is great, but it does present maintenance challenges (Southtown)

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