Today’s Headlines for Monday, April 21
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• Block Club: 4 killed since Saturday in crashes in Austin, River North, Roseland “is the worst 24-hour stretch for traffic deaths in over a year, data shows.”
• Driver fatally struck Jorge Velasquez, 31, around 5 AM while he was trying to cross 7-lane Route 83 at Sherwood Avenue in Wood Dale (Herald)
• A person shot in the thigh Sunday around 9:14 PM on a Blue train near Racine was the 2nd person shot in a CTA railcar in 4 days (FOX)
• Deep dive: “Doors Closing: With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the ‘L’ is in trouble. Here’s why our train is worth saving.” (Chicago)
• On Sunday CTA reportedly added more service to Blue and Yellow lines; and “Skokie Swift” trains were supposed to resume posted speeds
• Block Club: Week-long pedestrianization of 4700 block Lincoln Ave. in Lincoln Square for construction may foreshadow turning the block into a ped-only zone
• Block Club: “Environmental Justice Ordinance Stalls In City Council”
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