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  • Findings from ATA’s listening tour of 100+ community leaders and public officials
  • Quarantine order kicks in for travelers from states with skyrocketing COVID cases (Sun-Times)
  • Illinois State Police seek driver who injured pedestrian in hit-and-run on I-290 (NBC)
  • I-55 was shut down in both directions near Braceville after 5-vehicle crash (NBC)
  • Woman, 28, robbed on Evanston’s Davis Metra station platform (Evanston Now)
  • Metra to offer its $10 All-Day Pass through Labor Day (Tribune)
  • Despite the heat wave, Chicagoans aren’t allowed to cool off at beaches (Block Club)
  • Amid COVID-19 bike shortage, ABC7 viewers help each other find shops selling bicycles
  • Why are there Chicago-centric honey bears painted in a West Town viaduct? (Sun-Times)

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