Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 28
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• Active Trans: “More than 70 organizations urge lawmakers to pass transit funding & reform in veto session”
• Millionaire Willie Wilson welcomes bringing National Guard to Chicago. Couldn’t he just go back to clogging roads with free gas giveaways? (Tribune)
• Community Renewal Society and Live Free Illinois: “The City should continue its quest to stop police from targeting Black and Brown drivers” (Sun-Times)
• “5 Cops, 2 Suspects Hospitalized After Railcar Burglary Ends In Multiple Car Crashes, Police Say” (Block Club)
• “Metra train derailment near Union Station disrupts 3 lines” (CBS)
• “5-Story Apartment Complex Could Replace Developer’s Offices At Dangerous Irving Park Intersection” a mile west of Belmont Blue stop (Block Club)
• “Chicago Grant Park vendors say special events harm business: ‘Time to call it quits'” (CBS)
• Wauconda forever! The suburb’s Street Dance, Safe Ride event on 8/30, from 5 PM to midnight, offers 1,500 one-way Lyft discounts at $15 each (Herald)
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