Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, November 30

• Buttigieg discusses Chicagoland bike issues, including need for truck side guards to prevent crash deaths (Axios)
• Driver hospitalized after inbound Rock Island Metra train struck car in Midlothian (NBC)
• 2 officers hospitalized after collision with Jeep driver at 16th and State (CBS)
• Lawsuit filed against drunk trucker who injured 16 St. Ignatius hockey players and 4 trucking companies (My Stateline)
• Suspect charged with 10/2 robbery and battery of CTA worker on train at Fullerton station (FOX)
• Metra to expand Union Pacific-West schedule beginning next week (NBC)
• Lake Forest resident Norman Carlson is set to retire from the Metra Board of Directors (Tribune)
• All-affordable TOD next to Western Brown stop approved by zoning committee (Block Club)
• What if all of Chicago’s too-large streets were replaced with scenic canals? (@urbenist)
• CTA hosting career fair for bus operators and mechanics Friday, 12/2, 9 AM to 1 PM at Malcom X College 
• Better Streets Chicago action fund launch party Wednesday 12/7, 7 PM at Emerald Loop, 216 N. Wabash

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