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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, January 6

8:58 AM CST on January 6, 2022

    • Activist asks CTA unions to shut down the system if Jason Van Dyke isn't federally charged (Fox)
    • No school Thursday as CPS, union standoff continues over in-person learning (Block Club)
    • Police release photos of Jeep whose driver killed pedestrian at Belmont/Menard on NYE (WGN)
    • Police: Female motorist killed in Antioch after veering into path of semi driver (Tribune)
    • Driver charged with homicide, DUI in wrong-way Oak Park crash that killed female driver, 67 (WGN)
    • North Lawndale News amplifies misleading Illinois Policy report on speed cameras
    • R.I.P. former CTA bus driver Walter Daniel Edmonds, 93 (Legacy)
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