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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, November 26

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• Better Streets Chicago's Micheál Podgers: "Chicago area should get onboard a unified transit agency" (Crain's)

• A driver fatally struck a child Monday around 5:05 PM at Algonquin Road and Thoreau Drive in Schaumburg (NBC)

• Occupant of gold sedan shot driver of another car, 57, in head, critically injuring him and causing building to crash into Gage Park building (CBS)

• Motorist, 47, arrested after she drove sedan into convenience store Monday around 8:35 PM night in 5300 block of N. Cumberland near O'Hare (Tribune)

• After a driver crashed into iconic Harold's Chicken at 103rd/Halsted for the 2nd time in months, injuring 1, Ald. Mosley wants safer intersection (Block Club)

One again, merchants claim potentially live-saving protected lanes will drive them out of business, this time on Chicago Ave. in Evanston (Evanston Now)

A reader called out car-centric, NIMBY-friendly Edgewater News-Booster for calling the City's Smart Streets pilot program a cash grab

• Also in the News-Booster, a guest article from right-wing Illinois Policy implying red light cameras, proven to save lives, make streets more dangerous

RTA's 2025 Regional Transit Operating Budget and Capital Program now open for public comment

Chicago thinks Steve Albini was great: A stretch of Belmont in Avondale now has an honorary street sign for the late musician and engineer (Block Club)

• Tribune: CTA’s holiday fleet to begin spreading cheer this week

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