Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 14
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• Herald looks at CMAP's proposal to merge Metra, Pace, CTA into a mega-agency, and the resulting pushback
• $80M Damen Green station is expected to open next spring and will be primary stop for the United Center, home of the 2024 DNC (Axios)
• Tesla driver, 27, seriously injured male pedestrian in his 40s Monday night at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Winter Avenue in North Chicago (LMS)
• Building crash: Driver struck home Wednesday around 5:45 PM near South Quentin Road and Silent Brook Lane in Rolling Meadows (ABC)
• One of the complaints about this weekend's Riot Fest in Douglass Park is traffic congestion around Mount Sinai and St. Anthony hospitals (Block Club)
• CTA holding bus operator and bus mechanic Hiring Event on Friday 9/15, 1-4 PM at CTA Headquarters, 567 W. Lake St.
• After RAGBRAI ride across Iowa, cyclists look back on 50th anniversary (Tribune)
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