Today’s Headlines for Thursday, January 6

• 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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