Today’s Headlines for Thursday, November 5

• Hundreds of Chicagoans take to the street to demand that every vote be counted (Tribune)
• Pritzker warns of "painful" cuts after Fair Tax proposal fails at the ballot box (Tribune)
• 1 killed in Eisenhower Expressway crash after driver rear-ends semi-truck (ABC)
• Metra, Amtrak ask to continue mediation of Chicago Union Station dispute (Trains)
• Meet Lee Crooks, the Milwaukeean who records CTA announcement (On Milwaukee)
• Ex=messenger Andrea Jablonski is painting a mural at Ainslie/Western arts plaza (Block Club)
• Homewood brothers organize a 24-hour bike ride for charity (HF Chronicle)
• Who’s the former state senator known to bike from his Chicago home to Springfield? (Politico)

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