Today’s Headlines for Monday, October 25
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8:59 AM CDT on October 25, 2021
- CTA was ready to attach Brown Line to new Belmont Flyover this weekend (Block Club)
- Driver fatally struck Giovanni Leon, 7, in Chicago Heights (NBC)
- 3 injured after Belmont Cragin carjacking, pursuit ends in 8-car crash (ABC)
- Video captures moments after shooting, crash on Chicago’s West Side, injuring 2 (ABC)
- Off-duty CPD officer injured when car struck on Metra tracks in Elmwood Park (CBS)
- Man accused of robbing high school students on CTA train, ordered held on $50,000 bail (Tribune)
- Duct tape and paint transforms walking and biking infrastructure in Peoria (ATA)
- OnWord skate collective wants to change city’s skate culture from the ground up (Block Club)
- What are the lines like nowadays at downtown destinations that are usually crowded? (Axios)
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