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• Sun-Times: Nearly a year after ordinance for camera enforcement of drivers blocking bus lanes, bike lanes, crosswalks passed, it's still not enforced
• ATA: Inadequate hiring pipeline continues to impact CTA service
• Activists fighting for permits to protest closer to DNC in Chicago (CBS)
• Boy, 15, in good condition after being shot in the back after exiting CTA bus around 10 PM in 200 block of West 115th in Roseland (WGN)
• CPD releases images of 3 people who allegedly robbed and attacked a man on 1/30 on the Red Line near 47th Street (Sun-Times)
• Man gets frustrated when Ventra card reader doesn't register his card reader at Lakeview's Belmont station, smashes it and another reader (FOX)
• CTA: Chicago Police Department issued more than 6,300 citations for smoking on CTA properties in 2023
• CTA and Metra, essentially: "Take our buses and trains to the the Chicago Auto Show so you can buy a car and stop using public transportation!"
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