Today’s Headlines for Friday, April14

• During a time of unreliable transit and multiple highway projects, WBEZ survey asks about your commute habits
• Driver killed after crashing and being ejected from vehicle in the outbound lanes of Dan Ryan at 28th Street (NBC)
• Police release image of car whose driver struck Tracy Burton, 55, at Jackson/Laramie and fled (CBS)
• An update on the current Red and Purple Modernization project (NBC)
• What should we use the space under the reconstructed north Red Line for? Psst... parks not parking (Crain's)
• 17 state-owned Siemens Venture business-class cars are now hosting passengers on Midwest Amtrak routes (Trains.com)
• New housing planned next to Palatine Metra, replacing the legendary, questionably named music venue Durty Nellie's (TRD)

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