Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, January 13

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• Longtime Loop Alliance CEO Michael Edwards, who oversaw the car-free Sundays on State initiative, to step down (Crain’s)

• Man, 40, charged in fatal stabbing of man, 37, Saturday around 2:30 AM at Clark/Lake, one of 4 stabbings on CTA in less than a week (Fox, WGN)

• “Chicago officials seek to curb violent crime amid threats to federal CTA funding” (NBC)

• “Violence prevention group to ride CTA rails overnight in effort to curb crime” (CBS)

• “New Morton Grove Metra station opens but more work on the $4M project still to be done: ‘It was a big deal for us'” (Tribune)

• “Here’s What A Plaza At Kimball And Wellington Avenues In Avondale Could Look Like” (Block Club)

• “Fulton Market Could Get A New Public Park Under 30-Story Apartment Project” (Block Club)

• “Is the Flamingo endangered? Trump fires workers who look after federal artwork” (Sun-Times)

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