Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, July 1
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• “Video shows what led up to Douglass Park shooting that killed teen, injured Laquan McDonald’s cousin.” Shooter: Victims were trying to steal bike. (ABC)
• Hit-and-run driver fatally struck pedestrian Sunday around 2 AM at Oak Park/Windsor in Berwyn (ABC)
• 2 men, 19 and 21, arrested minutes after attacking and robbing a man, 47, on CTA bus Saturday near 34th/Indiana (FOX)
• Illinois gas tax increased from 45 cents per gallon to 48.3 cents today (WGN)
• “Let the Professionals Do the Driving and Take CTA to the NASCAR Chicago Street Race and Festivities,” which will delay CTA buses
• “Will NASCAR Return To Chicago? Aldermen Push For Post-Race Meeting As Contract Ends” (Block Club)
• Letter: “Free the city of NASCAR.” (Tribune)
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