Today’s Headlines for Thursday, July 30
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9:31 AM CDT on July 30, 2020
- Bird, Lime, and Spin — but not Lyft — are this year’s e-scooter concessionaires (City of Chicago)
- Findings from ATA’s COVID mobility listening tour on the Southwest Side
- CPS parents question safety of students taking CTA if schools reopen this fall (Sun-Times)
- Police: Man, 28, walking in the street on 1400 block of W. Roosevelt fatally struck (Sun-Times)
- Hit-and-run SUV driver critically injured man, 49, walking near Division/Pulaski (ABC)
- 5 hospitalized after crash involving multiple semi drivers on I-80 in New Lennox (NBC)
- How did the Logan Square traffic circle come to have its current, awful design? (Block Club)
- Outdoor dining has helped hundreds of restaurants, but others still waiting on permits (Block Club)
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