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Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 1

9:00 AM CDT on August 1, 2022

    • 7 killed after speeding wrong-way driver strikes van with mother and 5 children on 1-90 (CBS)
    • SUV driver, 21, crashes into sedan in Park Ridge, killing passenger and critically injuring driver (WGN)
    • Driver fatally struck man on 4500 block of W. Diversey in Hermosa and fled
    • CPD officer seriously injured in crash with unlicensed teen at Madison/Central Park (WGN)
    • NBC Chicago interviews John about our city's hit-and-run fatality epidemic
    • Can new 43 Green TOD revitalize Bronzeville without displacing residents? (Reader)
    • Lake Forest is replacing the bike-ped bridge over Woodland between Western and McKinley
    • CLA: Lolla results in near-peak ped counts on State Street and elsewhere in the Loop (ABC)

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