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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 26

    • 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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