• CPD is reporting violent crime on CTA is down 13% so far this year while overall transit crime is down 9% (WGN)
• Building crash: SUV driver strikes building in in the 400-block of S. Cicero in Austin, causing partial collapse, flees on foot (ABC)
• Metra Union Pacific Northwest trains disrupted late Wednesday night due to police activity in Woodstock (CBS)
• Morton Grove continues plans to build new Metra train station to replace "embarrassment" (Tribune)
• Metra to add to Electric line’s Blue Island Branch schedule (Trains.com)
• Lincoln Square’s Lawrence project with bike-ped safety upgrades between Western and river will continue Into 2024 (Block Club)
• Royal George Theater at 1641 N. Halsted, near North/Halsted Red stop, will be converted to 134 apartments, 15% affordable, with 35 car spots (Block Club)
• Meet Beverly’s "Bike Whisperer" Louie Burrel, who has helped over 200 kids ditch training wheels (Block Club)
• Aurora eyes spending $1.7 million for sidewalk and bike path work (Tribune)
• The northern border of the West Ridge eruv is the Yellow Line tracks just north of Howard St. (WBEZ)
• In ‘The Bear,’ Chicago’s public transportation never goes off the rails (Eater)
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