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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, November 14

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• Chicago Transit Board approves CTA’s 2025 budget – more on SBC later today

CTA Signs new two-year, $2M agreement for expanded social service outreach

• Metra OKs $1.1B operating budget; No fare changes planned for 2025

• 40% drop in Metra trains could come in 2027, leaders warn (Daily Herald)

• Hit-and-run driver killed Jorge Carmona, 17, on bike Sunday around 12:45 a.m. near Belvidere Road and Fulton Avenue in Waukegan (FOX)

• On Saturday, a driver struck and critically injured man, 33, biking across West Rockland Road from the Des Plaines River trail in Libertyville Township (ABC)

• School SUV driver ran over and killed Sylvia Coton, 65, on a bike at Latham Road/Deborah Avenue in Rockford on Monday around 7:30 AM (My Stateline)

• Person stabbed on Red Line near Chicago Avenue station Wednesday afternoon (CBS)

• SBC contributor AJ LaTrace was puzzled by CDOT's actions on Belmont in Avondale, "ripping up the brand-new sidewalk they had just poured" (NBC)

• Ex-Aldi at 3835 W. Madison, near Pulaski Brown, Blue stops will become 55 affordable units with grocery store, restaurant, 72 car parking spots (Block Club)

Reimagining 16th Street community engagement session, Thursday 11/21, 3-6 PM at UIC Neighborhood Center 1558 S. Hamlin

• "Lessons From Japan’s Shinkansen 'Bullet Trains'” with Tuesday 1/7, Maggiano's Little Italy, 516 N Clark (High Speed Rail Alliance)

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