Today’s Headlines for Friday, August 30
• NASCAR, a money-loser for Chicago that negatively impacts walk/bike/transit while glorifying driving, is returning to our city next year (Block Club)
August 30, 2024
Are Tribune’s calls to move Greyhound terminal due to the paper’s ties to the current station owner, who would profit from selling the land?
Tribune editorial page editors say no. But a spokesperson for Amtrak, which opposes bus rider using Union Station, wondered why it took a while to run the railroad's rebuttal.
August 29, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 29
• Sun-Times editorial: "CTA shined bright during the DNC, so why not every day?"
August 29, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, August 28
• Block Club: "CTA Boss Spent More Time Traveling World Than Visiting Chicago Transit Stations, Schedule Shows"
August 28, 2024
How can we stop Chicago from becoming the world’s largest northern hemisphere city without an intercity bus terminal?
More than 100 people showed up for a talk where Ald. Ramirez-Rosa said a resolution has been submitted calling for creative solutions to save the Greyhound station.
August 27, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, August 27
• Block Club looks at the largely completed Complete Streets project on 24th Street/Boulevard in Little Village, with a short section of PBLs that is flooding
August 27, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Monday, August 26
• Block Club: One first day of school, more than 1,000 CPS students with disabilities waited for bus rides.
August 26, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, August 23
• Mayor Johnson calls the DNC a success, hopes it will lead to more federal dollars to support the CTA (Block Club)
August 23, 2024
Hit-and-run pickup driver fatally struck James Reed Tillman, 67, in Rogers Park
Tragically, last Saturday night in Chicago's Rogers Park community, a pickup truck driver struck and killed 67-year-old pedestrian James Reed Tillman, and then fled the scene. Police eventually located the vehicle and made an arrest, but currently no one is in custody for the crime.
August 22, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 22
• FOX: Man protesting Israel-Hamas war climbed Green train beam near DNC with Palestinian flag, "drawing concern from police worried about his safety"
August 22, 2024