Today’s Headlines for Monday, February 17
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• New IDOT crash data shows drop in traffic deaths but pedestrian fatalities spiking (Daily Herald)
• While lowering speed limits to 25 has made streets safer in peer cities, SW Collective notes this wouldn’t apply to state roads in CHI (South Side Weekly)
• High Speed Rail Alliance: “Bills to Expand Illinois Railway Program Introduced”
• 6-year-old boy dead, woman critically injured after fire tore through apartment building on the 2700 block of West Granville in West Ridge (Sun-Times)
• Officer Robert Fryc, 43, who saved another officer’s life last June, was killed in 2-car crash on way to work Sunday 4 AM in 200 block in Barrington (Sun-Times)
• Driver seriously injured after veering into lake downtown at Balbo Drive near the Lakefront Trail (ABC)
• After at least 1 firefighter injured after firetruck driver crashed into church Friday at 103rd/Morgan, union blames decades-old equipment (WGN)
• South Shore Line will implement a new train schedule, effective Tues. 2/18
• CDOT and Ald. Vasquez (40th) host Lawrence Streetscape ribbon cutting Tues. 2/18, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Lawrence/Washtenaw in Lincoln Square
• Palenque LSNA hosts Future of Transit Town Hall for Fullerton Sat. 2/22, 10 AM in Riis Park, 6100 W. Fullerton, with complimentary tamales, hot chocolate
• On Tuesday 3/4, Good For Us will “launch a network of people helping each other center their lives around active mobility.” Previous SBC coverage here.
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