Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, December 30

• CTA announces disposable mask dispensers to be added to some Chicago buses (ABC)
• Churro Waffle family mourns Giovanny Bucio and aunt Araceli Gutierrez, killed in Gage park (Block Club)
• Evanston's Main St. corridor is slated for pedestrian improvements (Evanston Roundtable)
• The city’s Shared Cost Sidewalk Program opens to applications on 1/11 (Block Club)
• Forty Acres, a Black-owned grocery store, is coming to Austin food desert (Block Club)
• Marquette Bank hosts Christmas Without Cancer’s annual bike contest (Beverly Review)
• Camping was a great escape from the pandemic this year (Sun-Times)
• Here's a guide to good hiking routes in the region (Reader)

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