Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, January 28
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• Active Transportation Alliance: Let your alder know you support lowering Chicago’s default speed limit to 25 mph to save lives
• Metra trains on MD-W, NCS lines halted after train struck vehicle this morning near River Grove. No word on injuries. Extensive delays expected. (CBS)
• Block Club: “Police Still Looking For Driver In Fatal Ukrainian Village Hit-And-Run After Releasing Images Of Car,” more info about victim Halyna Hudzan, 66
• 2 men, 18 and 19, were arrest roughly 15 minutes after allegedly robbing a man, 22, on the 95th station platform, and charged with felony robbery (FOX)
• Block Club: “What’s Next For La Salle Street? Make It More Residential Friendly, City Says”
• Block Club: “Can The Google Effect Revive The Loop? Experts Say Yes”
• Block Club: 16 apartments, 3 affordable, with no off-street car parking spaces. proposed for 1920s church at 2625 N. Talman Ave. in Logan Square
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