Today’s Headlines for Tuesday 7/22

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• Capitol Fax’s Rich Miller: “New sales tax revenue will help mass transit, but there’s still a long way to go” (Sun-Times)

• New CTA press release on Red Line station opening includes information about the new artwork

• Tribune editorial on Red Line, Broadway: “Business owners fear their parking being swept away by a lobby that often demonizes their needs”

• The Trib piece includes a stealth shoutout to SBC (Bluesky, Twitter)

• Driver fatally struck woman around 9:40 PM in 5-lane, 2300 block of Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove (ABC)

• Hit-and-run SUV driver seriously injured female pedestrian, 58, Monday night near Grand/Pulaski in Humbolt Park (FOX)

• No injuries reported, light poles and traffic signal poles strewn across street after SUV driver crashed into Cicero Green stop’s wall Tuesday 4:22 AM (NBC)

• “Thieves steal cellphones from waiting passengers at CTA Sox-35th station, police warn” (CBS)

• “Downtown Chicago sees an increase in pedestrians” (WGN)

• Oak Park firefighters rescued potentially “backbiting snake” stuck on CTA train (CBS)

• Community Meeting: Grant Framework Plan at Maggie Daley: Tonight, 6 PM, Maggie Daley Fieldhouse, 337 E. Randolph St.

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