Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 29
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• SUV driver, 21, arrested after jumping curb and killing woman, 25, Tuesday around 4:15 AM at 13th/Lawndale Ave. in North Lawndale (Sun-Times)
• Female sedan driver critically injured girl, 17, jogging around 5 PM at 112th/Stewart in Roseland, motorist fled on foot (ABC)
• Man, 42, who fell on Granville tracks and was struck by train and died was 6th person injured or killed on Metra and CTA tracks recently (Tribune)
• Man 30, arrested after pistol-whipping man, 42, in fight on Red Line Sunday around 9:40 PM near 35th, causing gun to fire, no serious injuries (ABC)
• CTA’s Juana “Juanita” Fuentes Alacantara, “a friendly, familiar presence at the 18th Street Pink station,” died 4/5 due to cancer and pneumonia (Block Club)
• Block Club: “New DuSable Park Plans Would Bring A Boardwalk, Lush Greenery To The Lakefront”
• Finally, someone else used “austerity” to describe looming cuts to Chicagoland transit service… uh, World Socialist Web Site (So is John really a Marxist?)
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