Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 18
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• What do Chicagoans want to see here in 2050? Tribune letter writers, including SBC reader Andrew Mack, call for better walk/bike/transit.
• Sponsored by road-building lobby: “Investment in roads, bridges, parks, libraries and vital infrastructure is a proven way to create good jobs and promote economic growth” (Crain’s)
• Hit-and-run sedan driver fatally struck man, 36, Thursday around 11 PM near 87th/Ashland, intersection of two 5-lanes streets, in Auburn Gresham (ABC)
• “Cook County State’s Attorney’s office to discuss new crime-fighting team for public transit” (CBS)
• “A 51-year-old Chicago man has been charged with kidnapping in a CTA bus hijacking earlier this week, Chicago police said Friday.” (ABC)
• Video: “Chicago’s Blue Line suffers because of its modern design” (Daily Northwestern)
• “Breakthrough Urban Ministries Opens Transitional Housing Complex In Garfield Park” near Kedzie Green Line station (Block Club)
• Ald. Vasquez says 300-unit housing complex with 60 affordable units could be coming to Lawrence/Western, a block from Brown Line station (Block Club)
• Urbanize looks at transit-friendly synagogue redevelopment proposal for Emanuel Congregation, whom Inside Publications likened to “money changers in the temple”
• Letter: “Unionizing would give needed protections to rideshare drivers” (Sun-Times)
• On Sunday, hundreds of people showed up for the annual Tamales Ride in Pilsen and Little Village (Southwest Collective)
• A car-free trip between Milwaukee and Chicago with lots of good food (Journal Sentinel)
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– John Greenfield, editor
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