• Hit-and-run driver left female pedestrian, 40, lying in the street with critical injuries Wednesday around 1:39 AM in West Garfield Park (FOX)
• Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition: "Governor Pritzker Signs Transformational Public Transit Bill Into Law"
• "Nattering nabobs of negativity" Pritzker referred to at signing: Illinois Policy complains, "RTA will increase sales tax by 0.25% as part of transit bailout."
• Pritzker just signed a bill that includes transit safety strategies, but Tribune columnist Laura Washington praises Trump's bullying of the CTA
• "CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling talks CTA crime, Officer Krystal Rivera death in year in review" (ABC)
• 2 men in their 20s charged with knifepoint robbery of man, 26, in 2500 block of S. King, were apprehended 15 minutes after the incident (FOX)
• Jury refuses to award damages to Ariel Roman, shot by police at Grand stop buying the argument that cops shot him "in self-defense" as he fled (CBS)
• "CTA Yellow Line service resumes for afternoon commute after earlier train derailment" (ABC)
• Attention-seeking grinches 'subway surfed' in Christmas outfits atop CTA's holiday train in Loop, a potentially deadly stunt (Sun-Times)
• "Chance the Rapper gets into holiday spirit with a bike giveaway for 100 children in Chicago Ridge" (WBEZ)
• "Make your holiday travel plans on Metra with Family Fares, holiday schedules, and free New Year’s Eve rides"
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