Today’s Headlines for Thursday, November 13
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• Finally! National coverage of the surprising early-morning 10/31 passage of Illinois’ robust transit reform/funding bill, the “Halloween Miracle” (Governing)
• CTA re: yesterday’s board vote: “Budget Includes No Fare Increases, No Service Cuts and No Layoffs Thanks to Passage of State Transit Funding Bill“
• More coverage of the CTA board meeting (WTTW)
• Man, 22, charged with multiple felonies for a string of violent robberies Jan. 5 on Red Line trains on the South Side. (WGN)
• CDOT just released the Four-Year Plan Update, “detailing many of the projects and programs that have advanced the plan’s four core pillars”
• Block Club: Guinness has picked up on Chicago’s longtime ‘L’ racing phenomenon. Here’s some of our previous coverage of this competition
• SBC leads a ride from Daley Plaza Sun. 11/16, noon, leaving by 12:30 PM, to a showing and Q&A for the doc “Power Trip,” about media-inspired risky driving
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