Today’s Headlines for Thursday, July 23
- RTA encouraged by uptick in ridership on CTA, Metra, And Pace (WBBM)
- Cook County commissioners celebrate appointment of 2 Black women to RTA board (Crusader)
- Man’s arm struck by Red train while he reached for a bag at Garfield stop (Fox)
- Proposed Bridgeport logistics facility angers residents worried about traffic, pollution, safety (Block Club)
- Sugar Grove looking at grant to help pay for bike and pedestrian bridge (Tribune)
- How has COVID-19 changed your biking habits? (The Chainlink)
- Today's the last day to pick up the Mellow Chicago Bike Map in the Chicago Reader
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