Today’s Headlines for Thursday, March 2

  • Englewood voters overwhelmingly support nonbinding referendum to reopen Racine Green Line station (Block Club)
  • Sheriff’s deputy injured in Waukegan crash with driver who ran a stop sign while opening a beer (QC Online)
  • Calumet City mayor Thaddeus Jones, 4 others injured in crash on 300 block of River Oaks Drive (FOX)
  • Part of Fabyan Parkway in suburban West Chicago closed after minivan and Smart Car driver collide (CBS)
  • School bus driver cited after striking child, 12, on bike in Mt. Prospect, injuring leg (ABC)
  • Turano bread truck carrying hamburger buns engulfed in flames on I-55, no injuries (ABC)
  • Man, 35, suffers cuts to face, ear and arm after woman swings knife at him on 69th Red platform (FOX)

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