Today’s Headlines for Monday, October 26

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  • Driver struck and killed Czeslaw Kosman, 78, on his bike Friday in Norwood Park (Sun-Times)
  • Driver charged in South Loop hit-and-run crash that left woman critically hurt (ABC)
  • 25 years later, Fox River Grove Metra-school bus crash still haunts engineer, other survivors (Sun-Times)
  • Zotti: To save Chicago post-pandemic, leverage rail to increase opportunities for all (Sun-Times)
  • Daily Herald looks at the challenges facing Pace as it finalizes its 2021 budget
  • Letter: Metra, enforce your mask rules! (Here’s South Shore Line’s controversial approach) (Sun-Times)
  • Loomis bridge reopens with concrete-filled bike lanes (City of Chicago)
  • Aurora will apply for state grant to finish connecting bike trail through far East Side (Tribune)
  • MPC hosts “Life on Wheels” future of mobility documentary screening & conversation on 11/12

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 23

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  • WTTW looks at the movement to make North LSD less car-centric
  • Lightfoot announces return of ban on indoor bar service, 10 PM curfew (Block Club)
  • 2 separate fatal crashes on Tri-State Tollway (WGN)
  • Sana Saleem, 38 killed in I-294 crash in Schiller Park Thursday morning (ABC)
  • 2 critically injured after BMW driver struck motorcycle on LSD and fled (Sun-Times)
  • Time Out’s 20 influential people and things list includes West Side bike library
  • Andersonville hosts socially-distanced trick-or-treating on the Catalpa shared street (Block Club)

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 22

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  • Several UP-NW station houses reopened after being closed since early in pandemic (J & T)
  • Flooding slows morning commute in Chicago, flood advisory issued for much of area (Tribune)
  • Police: 2 CPD members hurt after driver veers into squad car in I-290 hit-and-run (Sun-Times)
  • Police officer injured after driver allegedly runs red in Little Village (Sun-Times)
  • Man, 40, charged with violent robbery on Red Line at Cermak on 10/12 (Fox)
  • Plan for 56 apartments with 28 spots on 4500 block of Clark moving forward (Block Club)
  • 2 other 2-3-story Uptown buildings will be redeveloped into mid-rise buildings (Block Club)
  • Chicago Century Club cyclists celebrate community, Black-owned businesses (Sun-Times)
  • Columbia Chronicle checks out the Bikes, Birds and Environmental Justice ride

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, October 21

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  • Colorado, Ohio, Delaware, W. Virginia, Texas added to Chicago travel quarantine list (Block Club)
  • RTA sounds federal transit alarms as 2021 budget work begins (Bond Buyer)
  • Secretary of State announces IL teen driver deaths are down 74 percent since 2007 (WBBM)
  • 2nd man has died after a motorist drove off I-290 in Elmhurst and struck another vehicle (Sun-Times)
  • Rep. Kam Buckner’s is facing charges after a DUI arrest outside of the Illinois State Capitol (HP Herald)
  • After Lightfoot told SBC indoor bar service isn’t a major spread source, Pritzer says it is (Block Club)
  • Wear a costume and try Haymarket’s new Bike Lane Uprising beer on 10/29, 6 PM

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