Today’s Headlines for Thursday, June 17
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• Chicago Reader: “CPD touted a beefed-up surveillance center that grants authorities real-time access to tens of thousands of [CTA] cameras.”
• Driver suspected of recent hit-and-run killing of bike rider Nick Laureys, 15, in Crystal Lake found dead in Woodstock (ABC)
• “Proposal To Allow New Coach Houses, Basement Units Citywide Stalls — For Now” (Block Club)
• “As Burnett exits City Council, Johnson’s in a bind to find a new zoning chair” (Crain’s)
• Ald. Harris (8th) faces pushback to plan to re-zone 79th St. properties in South Shore from existing retail and mixed-use to single-family homes (Block Club)
• “Nostalgic for bar cars? Metra may introduce ‘café cars.’” (Daily Herald)
• “New Divvy station opens in the Loop” (NBC)
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