- As Red Line extension plan moves forward, planners share vision of a thriving Far South Side (Block Club)
- Buffalo Grove High School student Ricky Barcenas, 17, one of four killed in Wheeling crash, to be laid to rest Monday (ABC)
- Police: Lake Zurich driver Kevin Rediger killed in crash with tree (Tribune)
- "Emergency, emergency, emergency": Witnesses detail fatal Metra crash one year ago (Daily Herald)
- Woman in custody after man shot during argument on CTA Roosevelt Red Line train, police say (ABC)
- Girl charged with robbing man at gunpoint on Jackson CTA Red Line platform (FOX)
- Chicago police: Bicyclist beaten with construction sign, own bike in South Loop (ABC)
- Metra announces service changes for 2 major lines serving several Chicago suburbs (CBS)
- Metra files suit against STB over CPKC merger (Railfan & Railroan)
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