Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, May 13
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• “CTA workers’ union leaders say banned rider list isn’t being sufficiently enforced” (CBS)
• Tragically, yet another person has died after falling onto ‘L’ tracks, 2nd time in 2 days, this time before 2 AM Tuesday at Clark and Lake station (NBC)
• Car driver badly injured woman on foot Tuesday around 6 AM on I-57 near 127th Street (ABC)
• Photos of aftermath of Sunday morning crash in 4700 block of N. Western that injured 3 and took out a light pole, 1 block W. of car-free Lincoln (ABC)
• Good news from a crash report: After a scary-looking collision 5/4 around 11:30 AM at 95th/Leavitt in Beverly, man on bike, 70, wasn’t seriously injured
• Five-way intersection of Ridge, Hollywood and Wayne avenues in Edgewater is getting Chicago’s first-ever pedestrian-activated stoplight (Block Club)
• “City Crews Remove All Tents From Gompers Park Encampment To Clear Path For Construction” (Block Club)
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