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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, February 16

    • Dorval Carter: CTA will let equity and inclusion drive decisions about service (Sun-Times)
    • 15-year-old boy attacks mother, steals SUV and causes fatal crash in Gary (Sun-Times)
    • Body of Thomas Howe, 24, missing since January car crash, found in Des Plaines River near Libertyville (Tribune)
    • Months after Nicholas Bailey, 30, killed in Roseland hit-and-run, family pleads for driver to come forward (ABC)
    • Suspect arrested for armed robbery of Metra conductor at Van Buren station (Fox)
    • City will rule on controversial Southeast Side metal scrapper’s permit by end of week (Block Club)
    • CDOT responds to protest over removal of Halsted bike lane for turn lane by stenciling bike symbols on sidewalk
    • Bryn Mawr bike lanes not funded in 39th Ward PB election, but other bike/ped improvements were (Block Club)

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