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Here’s some steps Mayor Brandon Johnson can take to fix public transit

For one, the Johnson administration’s choices around community development and public safety matter for improving public transit, a UIC urban planning professor writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

While stymied on a budget, Illinois legislators addressed issues including abortion, book bans and south suburban airport during spring session

While failing to get a budget done by its self-imposed deadline, the Illinois General Assembly passed measures addressing issues ranging from abortion rights to full-day kindergarten during its spring session, which this week goes into overtime.

Chicago Tribune

Woman in custody after shooting man on CTA Red Line train: police

The woman was arguing with a man on the train when she pulled out a gun and shot him in the 1100 Block of South State Street, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

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From dealing drugs to working for CTA, Hostess: Cook County Drug Court program grads get felony records expunged to begin new lives

Cook County Judge Charles Burns, who’s presided over 23 graduations in 13 years running the court, sped the process for the 10 participants to get felonies removed from court records.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago to work with Biden administration on plan to fight homelessness

The White House on Thursday announced a two-year, multiagency federal partnership with Chicago aimed at curbing unsheltered homelessness, placing a federal official within city government to organize response plans and help coordinate sources for additional federal funding.

Chicago Tribune

50 closed schools 10 years later, the Bears hope for Springfield help in moving stadium and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

I’ve been riding CTA all my life. It’s time for a reckoning on public transit’s problems.

I’ve been riding the CTA since my mother was pregnant with me, Natalie Moore writes. I don’t mind the peddling, whether it’s music, socks or incense sticks. But when safety and cleanliness become problems, change must be afoot.

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South Side gets its first electric CTA buses

Two electric buses rolled out Tuesday on the No. 63 route, one of the CTA’s busiest. It runs between 63rd/Stony Island and Midway Airport and is the second route to feature electric buses.

Chicago Sun-Times

Homeless man beaten at subway stop died of drug overdose; ‘stress’ of attack listed as secondary cause

CTA employee Emmett Richardson has pleaded not guilty to felony counts of aggravated battery in connection to the March 25 attack captured on surveillance cameras.

Chicago Sun-Times

Are bike shares cost effective?

Many are looking at ways to save some money and cut down on everyday expenses. One of these cost-saving measures is leaving the car at home and using a bike to get around town. With bike share programs now available in most of America’ bigger cities, one doesn’t even have…

Cycling Weekly

Faster police response would not have saved slain Officer Areanah Preston, Johnson’s chief of staff says

Rich Guidice, who for 20 years ran the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, said “Chicago Police did the best they could to get to the scene of the incident as quickly as they did.”

Chicago Sun-Times

First NextGen TV-Certified Receivers to Hit the Market by This Summer

ADTH-Tolka 3.0 set-tops will retail for $120, early birds can get it for $80

TV Tech

We’ve lost control of our border, and that’s no way to run a country

We don’t have a problem with immigration or migrants, we just have a few basic requests, reader Larry Craig writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Crash hits bus stop in North Lawndale, 3 injured

Three people were injured and hospitalized in fair condition, and four others declined medical attention, officials said.

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CTA gets $200M in federal funds for ‘next generation of railcars’

The money will help replace the agency’s oldest carriages, some of which were manufactured more than 40 years ago, CTA said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Homeless people deserve to be treated with respect on CTA

Verbal abuse and other harassment by CTA-contracted private security workers occurs on a daily basis, a homeless outreach volunteer writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

South Sider recalls childhood before home was demolished, CTA’s grime-fighting campaign and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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CTA’s grime-fighting campaign is overdue, riders say

The agency’s efforts include more janitors and more power-washing to boost public confidence in public transit.

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Chicago asking Congress for big boost in federal dollars for 2024 DNC security costs

Security plans will be developed by Chicago and Milwaukee with the Department of Homeland Security and related agencies for the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lake Street bridge stuck in up position for hour, causing delays on CTA Pink, Green lines

Trains were running on both lines by 12:15 p.m.

Chicago Sun-Times

No old faces should be in the running for Chicago police superintendent

Every one of them should have given it everything they had before leaving, and therefore should have nothing left in the tank.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The wall needed painting,’ Chicago graffiti artist Joos says is the philosophy behind his ‘beast on the streets’ spray-painting

He’s drawn to viaducts, L trains, abandoned buildings and other sometimes-dangerous settings.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bronzeville high-rise near CTA Green Line to open by summer

Half the units in 43G One, a 10-story mixed-use building next to the 43rd Street station, will be affordable for lower-income residents. The second phase of the project is expected to be completed next year.

The Guardian - UK

‘Public lynching’: Barça’s Laporta hits back at claims of payments to referees

Joan Laporta denied allegations Barcelona tried to buy favourable decisions from referees insisting the club were victims of a gigantic smear campaign

Chicago Tribune

Chicago's mayor, mayor-elect weigh in on weekend shootings as summer approaches

CHICAGO — The weekend shootings of three teenagers in two separate incidents drew responses from Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson as summer looms.

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