Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 13
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• Person died after being struck by Yellow Line train Thursday around 12:30 PM by Niles Center Road near Skokie, police say gates, signals were working (WGN)
• Suspect stabbed man, 37, in arm around 11:58 PM on Grand Red Line platform in River North, no one in custody (ABC)
• “CTA vows to move forward with Red Line Extension Project despite federal funding uncertainty” (CBS)
• “State Senator Mike Simmons says – biking gets you outside and moving!” (Chicagoans Who Bike)
• Woodlawn’s Blackstone Bicycle Works got a USA Cycling Everyone Rides Community Impact Grant.
• “A proposed building with 54 supportive housing units for single women, office space for support staff” (Chicago Cityscape)
• Ride the Green Line! “CTA Will Get You to All the St. Patrick’s Day Parades and Annual Dyeing of the Chicago River”
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