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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, April 21

9:00 AM CDT on April 21, 2021

    • 7000-Series cars go into service on Blue Line, with screens displaying surveillance images of riders (CBS)
    • Committee vote on DuSable Drive proposal pushed back to 4/29 (BHM)
    • Two CPD officers were injured in a hit-and-run crash in Gresham (ABC)
    • Sun-Times: Lightfoot’s massive rewrite of affordable housing ordinance sails through committee
    • Zoning Committee approves lift of ban on residential developments N. of Lake in Fulton Market  (Block Club)
    • 109-foot-tall office building proposed near Morgan station (Block Club)
    • Chicago Council on Science & Tech hosts program on history and future of local transportation on 5/3

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