Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, May 11
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2:02 PM CDT on May 11, 2021
- ATA supports Rep. Buckner’s bill to block $6.5B in state financing for dubious One Central transit hub
- Michael Reese site primed for $97M sale for development of nearly 7,000 housing units (Block Club)
- Police release images of hit-and-run driver who seriously injured man in 12/6 in Logan (Block Club)
- Pace bus involved in crash on Dan Ryan Expressway at 63rd Street (CBS)
- 47th Ward residents can vote on how to spend $250K in menu money, including bike/bed (Block Club)
- Logan Square Farmers Market vendors look forward to pedestrianization of traffic circle (WTTW)
- Journalist bikes Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica collecting COVID stories (SMDP)
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