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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, May 20

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Ald. Moore insists that CTA board members who oppose Mayor Johnson’s prez pick, the alder’s ex-COS, would be “backbiting snakes”

Automated Enforcement

Debate over speed cams, proven to save lives, continued at Tuesday’s committee meeting. CDOT announced 11 more locations today.

Statewide advocacy

Food for thought: Cycling and pedestrian advocates converged on Springfield for the 2025 Illinois Bike & Walk Summit

CTA

Living, working, and talking transit: The agency launches its new podcast “Moving Experiences: Stories of the CTA”

Pedestrian Fatalities

Turning trucker allegedly disobeyed signal and fatally struck man, 44, next to Juarez High in Pilsen

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Safe Streets

An intersection redesign advocates pitched years ago might have prevented the latest serious bike injury crash on Wrightwood Avenue

A driver fatally struck Ron Mendoza, 43, at Wrightwood/Pulaski in 2023. Another motorist seriously injured a boy, 16, Thursday at Wrightwood/Cicero.

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Allegedly drunk hit-and-run SUV driver struck and killed a man, 76 Tuesday night in Chicago Lawn

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