Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, February 1

• Transit rider's union launches on Transit Equity Day this Friday 8 AM at Forest Park branch Western stop
• In reelection bid, Pritzker says he will suspend plan to raise gas tax to keep up with inflation (Sun-Times)
• Alderpeople emerged from ward remap negotiations Sunday without a compromise (Block Club)
• Activists calling for CTA work stoppage to protest Van Dyke release plan rally downtown Thursday (WGN)
• CTA bus driver union is worried "microtransit" is an agency strategy to get around using union labor (Fox)
• After 3-car crash death of Emma Joyce Quarles, 81, in Homewood, police close Halsted for investigation (Tribune)
• Hit-and-run SUV driver crashes into Belmont Cragin building, then injures 2 teens on sidewalks (ABC)
• CPD: Cop driving in the wrong direction on 111th injured after colliding with left-turning motorist (ABC)
• LaSpata is proceeding with PB-elected protected lanes on Wood in 1st Ward, despite driver pushback (CBS)
• Redevelopment of infamous Silver Shovel site at Roosevelt/Kostner could include bike trail (Block Club)

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