Today’s Headlines for Monday 7/21
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“CTA Customers Enjoy Ceremonial ‘First Ride’ on the New Red, Purple Line Elevated Tracks” with stops at Bryn Mawr and Berwyn”
• More coverage of the the opening of 5 new Red Line stations (Block Club, WGN, ABC, NBC, CBS)
• NIMBY op-ed from Edgewater condo association prez: “Cutting parking requirements while upzoning Broadway will create a crisis” (Tribune)
• Hit-and-run driver fatally stuck Marcela Hernandez, 22, seriously injured man, 21, she was walking with at Ashland/Cullerton in Pilsen, no arrests (ABC)
• CPD: 4 men punched victim in face on CTA escalator, stole wallet, pulled gun when he tried to get it back, 7/12 around 12:47 AM (ABC)
• CDOT newsletter provides updates on Granville, Archer/Kedzie, Milwaukee, and 71st Complete Streets projects
• Chicago Grit bicycle race series in West Dundee (Daily Herald)
• Chicago Critical Mass this Friday, July 25, 6 PM at Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington St.
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