Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, July 6
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10:23 AM CDT on July 6, 2021
- Suspect charged with fatally stabbing man, 67, during argument on CTA bus neat 86th/Cottage (Tribune)
- U. of C. student Max Lewis, 20, hit by stray bullet Thursday on Green Line near 51st, has died (Sun-Times)
- Hit-and-run driver killed U. of I. grad Rosemarie Garza, 22, Sunday on Dan Ryan near 95th (ABC)
- Man lost wife, son in crash caused by driver of stolen car last month in Bronzeville (CBS)
- Jeep driver strikes woman and puppy in Humboldt Park crosswalk (CBS)
- Woodland’s Island Terrace apartments will stay affordable under new owner (Block Club)
- A new project looks at the history of centuries of displacement in Uptown (Block Club)
- Black Heroes Matter celebrates the renaming of DuSable Drive (Sun-Times)
- Former anti-bike troll John Kass rants about DuSable name change as “pathetic virtue signaling”
- Supply issues make for rocky road for bike store owners, riders in Fox Valley (Tribune)
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