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• Metra SWS line halted after freight train strikes car at Ashland this morning (CBS)
• Leopoldo “Leo” Ambriz, 82, missing after going on bike ride in Roseland (WGN)
• CPD releases images of suspect in 7/23 robbery at Green Line Pulaski stop around 7:30 PM (FOX)
• Metra to add to Electric line’s Blue Island Branch schedule (Trains)
• Block Club looks at the Leavitt Street Neighborhood Greenway plan
• Updated Elgin parks and rec plan calls for more bikeability between parks (Tribune)
• Info on the 40th Ward "People's Budget" participatory budgeting election (Ald. Vasquez)
• 8,000 CPS students won’t have school bus service on first day of school (Block Club)
• "Lollapalooza traffic, road closures, rideshare drop-off areas to know about" (or you could just take CTA or Metra) (NBC)
• Chicagoans can get a taste of the Bike Grid this Sunday with 7.8 miles side street tour (Chicago, Bike Grid Now!)
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