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    • CDOT marked World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims with a CAN-TV segment
    • Suspect in Waukesha parade murders was out on $1,000 bail for running over a woman on 11/2 (CNN)
    • Jeep driver killed Mekhi Sutton, 1, by rear-ending SUV he was traveling in at N. Chicago stoplight (Herald)
    • Metra ticket machine contract aims to eliminate on-train cash sales (Railway Gazette)
    • Franklin Park may get faster train traffic: Metra, CP, CREATE officials herald upgrades (Tribune)
    • UP says CP-KCS merger could impact Chicagoland Metra and Amtrak service (Trains.com)
    • CTA Holiday Train, Bus coming back for 2021 (ABC)
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