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    • WBEZ: Speed cams have "little safety benefit" although UIC found they prevented 100s of injury, fatality crashes
    • Full Connected Communities equitable transit oriented development ordinance now available online
    • 6 injured, 4 critically, when woman, 89, strikes people picnicking in Schiller Woods FP (ABC)
    • Man who lost both legs after hit-and-run on Michigan Avenue heads home (NBC)
    • Man, 30, arrested in N. Lawndale slaying after leaving prison also allegedly struck a pedestrian (Sun-Times)
    • After man is shot dead on CTA bus in West Garfield union leader says operators have 'had enough' (FOX)
    • 4 shot, 1 fatally, near 79th Street Red Line station Thursday night (ABC)
    • Chicagoans take to the streets to protest reversal of Roe Versus Wade decision (Block Club)
    • Think Outside Da Block holds 9th Roll N Peace bike rally (CBS)
    • Car-free Sundays On State Street returns in July with 250 artists, businesses, workshops and more (Block Club)

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