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Today’s Headlines for Friday, January 14

9:28 AM CST on January 14, 2022

    • How new laws, advocacy and charity helped strengthen support for cycling in 2021 (Daily Herald)
    • Man critically injured in shooting, 3-year-old girl grazed in Chatham shooting that resulted in car crash (ABC)
    • 2 hospitalized after Metra trains struck person at Millennium, car in Morgan Park Thursday night (Tribune)
    • CPD: 3 injured, including 2 officers, after driver ran a red at 79th and Stony Island (Fox)
    • CTA stabbing epidemic continues with assaults at Jackson Red and Washington Blue stations (ABC)
    • Writer Shawn Taylor says her "best day ever" would include a bike ride from Buckingham to MSI (Axios)
    • Take a survey to let the city know your transportation priorities for the 2022 Climate Action Plan
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