Today’s Headlines for Friday, May 14

• CTA is launching a media and public relations blitz to lure back riders (Crain's)
• CTA to begin work on North Side Red Line stations this weekend (WGN)
• CTA board board approves extension of three bus pilots on California and Kedzie routes (Mass Transit)
• ISP: 1 dead, 1 hurt in fiery I-294 crash after driver crashes into maintenance truck (ABC)
• Shift Transit, led by ex-Divvy manager Eddie Inlow, takes over Millennium bike station (Sun-Times)
• Demand for block parties is sky high but city hasn’t started the permitting (Block Club)
• Chicago is rapidly losing its signature home, the two-flat, to tear-downs (Block Club)

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