Today’s Headlines for Thursday, April 21
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8:59 AM CDT on April 21, 2022
- Free Chicago gas and transit card giveaway narrowly passes budget committtee, full vote on 4/27 (NBC)
- Can the federal government help make the CTA safer? Durbin discusses the issue (ABC)
- Tio Hardiman, fired from Ceasefire after 2013 domestic violence arrest, offers “violence interrupters” for CTA (Sun-Times)
- State worker charged with DUI, reckless homicide in SW Side crash that decapitated female driver (ABC)
- DUI driver charged in Dan Ryan Expressway crash that injured 5, including 2 Chicago police officers
- Metra stages massive clean-up effort along Chicago-area tracks for Earth Day (Fox)
- U.S. PIRG discusses Chicago bike infrastructure
- Green Drives vehicle electrification conference takes place May 3 at Northern IL U. in Naperville
- National Shared Mobility Summit takes place May 17-18 at InterContinental Hotel
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