Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 1
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10:12 AM CDT on October 1, 2021
- Nearly 200 affordable housing units could be coming to west end of the Bloomingdale Trail (Block Club)
- New study: Affordable housing is rapidly disappearing on the North Side (Block Club)
- Details on judge’s decision that UP is under no obligation to provide service on 3 Metra lines (Railway Age)
- 4 people injured in crash at 87th and Ashland in Auburn Gresham (CBS)
- CTA temporarily stops Red Line lead paint removal in Uptown after “clouds of dust” escape containment area (Block Club)
- AARP Illinois bought an ad in the Sun-Times to publicize the Recyclery’s artistic pothole-filling project
- Cal’s Angels members are biking 1,000 miles Mt. Rushmore to Chicago to raise money for kids with cancer (KEVN)
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