Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 24
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• Driver seriously injured, Metra trains seriously delayed, after freight train struck car in Lake Forest Friday afternoon (CBS)
• “Students receive free rides on CTA, Metra and Pace for first day of school” (NBC)
• “Cortland Bridge Will Remain Closed [to drivers, not people on foot, bike, and e-scooter] For Years, Vexing Neighbors After New Problems Found” (Block Club)
• “Bridgeport Residents Furious About Amtrak Rail Yard Plans — And Fear Losing The White Sox” (Block Club)
• Is it “punk rock” pay $50 to park your car at Riot Fest, locally virtually next door to a Pink Line station, and not far from a Metra stop? (Block Club)
• Complete Streets opponent Ald. Raymond Lopez (15) and his spouse have launched a new podcast called “Sunday Clapback”
• “Steelworkers Park To Get Community Building, Bridge Over North Slip Under New Plan” (Block Club)
• “Editorial: The Sears Sunken Garden gets new life on Chicago’s West Side” (Tribune)
• “Famed Sculptor Hired To Build DuSable Statue At Long-Planned Lakefront Park” (Block Club)
• After Green Machine Cycles (an SBC supporter) lost their lease, the local chamber of commerce “is “collecting community members’ stories and memories from the shop”
• Equiticity is promoting The State of Equity: A Mayors Transportation Roundtable,” Tue. 8/25, noon to 1 PM, UIC Student Center East, Illinois Room, 750 S. Halsted St.
• NIMBYs will protest in front of synagogue that would be redeveloped to build new temple, TOD w/ affordable units, Sun. 8/30 1 PM at Thorndale/Sheridan (Midwest Antiquarian)
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