Today’s Headlines for Friday, December 6
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• RTA: “Last chance for public comment on 2025 budget and 5-year capital program”
• Block Club: “Bronzeville Trail Project Gets $900K Grant From Mellon Foundation”
• Letter to the editor: Build the Chicago Avenue bike lane (Evanston RoundTable)
• Driver crashed into empty CTA bus shelter, light pole, mailbox Thursday morning at Clark, Division in Gold Coast (ABC)
• CPD: Driver fleeing police struck bus shelter near Grace/DLSD in Lakeview, 4 car occupants flee on foot, 3 arrested, guns and drugs found in car (ABC)
• Police release images of 2 people who allegedly attempted to rob and attacked Red Line rider on train last Friday near Argyle (ABC)
• Block Club: “After Child Hit By Car, Alderman Seeks Input To Make Busy Ravenswood Manor Intersection Safer”
• Block Club: “As City Moves To Clear Its Biggest Tent Encampment, Some Living In Humboldt Park ‘Refuse’ To Go”
• Tribune: Future of Northbrook’s Metra station coffee shop cast into doubt
• RTA: “How to use transit to get to Chicago area concert venues”
• “Hop Aboard the CTA and Enjoy All That Chicago Has to Offer This Holiday Season”
• Axios: “All aboard the CTA Holiday Train” this weekend
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