Today’s Headlines for Thursday, July 15
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By
AJ LaTrace
9:16 AM CDT on July 15, 2021
- Residents say West Side Green Line stations need renovations (Block Club)
- Metra UP-W trains delayed by freight train fire (Sun-Times)
- Driver fatally struck Hershell Weinberger, 9, biking on sidewalk in West Ridge (CBS 2)
- Advocates call for more resources for homelessness (WTTW)
- Urban Land Institute report calls for more infrastructure spending in black communities (Sun-Times)
- Lawndale residents can sign up for free tickets to Riot Fest (Block Club)
- Driver slammed into woman walking her puppy in Humboldt Park (Sun-Times)
- Electric scooter and bicycle store Vene Rides expanding into Chicago (Bicycle Retailer)
- Milwaukee is getting its first World Naked Bike Ride (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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