Today’s Headlines for Friday, July 11
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• “Developers reveal new ‘scaled down’ plan for Lincoln Yards site” (Crain’s)
• F.K. Plous op-ed: “Build the CTA Super Loop to get Lincoln Yards and The 78 developed” (Tribune)
• After pushback from “small but vocal minority of residents” to plan, “tepid” support from Ald. Waguespack, Wellington Greenway Support drive launched
• Active Transportation Alliance: “2025 Bike Challenge winners: Time to take a bow”
• “Current projects, jackets, bike crash audit, training dates & more” (Bike Lane Uprising)
• “Fight over [Union Pacific’s] Hubbard Street walls puts historic murals in the middle” (Sun-Times)
• “CTA Will Get You to a Variety of Music Festivals Across Chicago” this weekend
• “Work to impact Metra Electric, South Shore service on two weekends in July”
• “Back To School Free CTA Rides Returns for Chicago’s K-12 Students” on Mon. 8/18
• Equiticity hosts “Claiming Our Space: Powering an Equitable Future,” to “center BIPOC leadership” in advocacy, Fri. 9/12, 5:30-9:30 at Marriott
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