Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 26
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9:13 AM CDT on August 26, 2021
- Tribune editorial: Set too low, speed cams tickets hundreds of thousands of speeders
- Massive Goose Island development poised to get initial approval from city (Block Club)
- New Lenox teen airlifted to Loyola after head-on crash with truck on Laraway Road (Tribune)
- Man charged in CTA hammer attacks; Transit union holds protest for safer working conditions (CBS)
- Police issue alert about group that robbed 3 people of Divvy bikes downtown this past weekend (CBS)
- Concrete falls on Kennedy Expressway from Metra bridge In Jefferson Park (CBS)
- That giant white dome on Grand in Ukrainian Village is a salt storage dome (Block Club)
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