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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