Marni Pyke
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How Metra is working harder to stop suicides on tracksOct 31, 2023 7:31 am - Interventions to save lives and prevent death by suicide on railway tracks increased substantially in 2023, Metra reports. Through mid-October, police and train crews tr...
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Trump Jr. talks inflation, Ukraine war to base voters in the suburbsOct 29, 2023 7:48 am - It wouldn't have been an authentic Trump family event if former President Donald Trump's son hadn't roasted Democrats during a speech in Addison Friday. But some of the ...
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Tollway shifting to stickers in January, transponders will still workOct 30, 2023 7:44 am - The Illinois tollway will switch to a sticker system to collect tolls instead of transponders in January. At a Thursday meeting, officials explained the stickers would b...
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Donald Trump Jr. fundraising visit to Addison excites GOP baseOct 26, 2023 7:09 am - Republican voters in Illinois have caught the attention of two presidential campaigns this week with contender South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott in Chicago Monday and Donald...
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Swastika found on playground equipment at Downers Grove elementary schoolOct 26, 2023 7:46 am - Downers Grove Grade School District 58 officials have asked for extra police patrols in the area around Lester School after a swastika was found etched onto a piece of e...
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Stickers not transponders for tolls? Tollway could shift gears next yearOct 24, 2023 1:41 pm - Now might be a good time to let your Illinois tollway transponder know how much you love it. That's because the agency could follow an industry trend shifting from hard-...
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Supernatural suburbia? Check out these reportedly haunted local sitesNov 01, 2023 6:33 am - For years, it was “a rite of passage” for Northwest suburbanites to check out supposedly haunted Cuba Road at night, actor/filmmaker Jon Lee Brody explained. So it made ...
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'The stakes are ... high': 5 takeaways from CMAP's report on transforming transitOct 17, 2023 6:52 am - A seismic report on how to pull Metra, Pace and the CTA away from a $730 million fiscal cliff and transform public transit is headed to the General Assembly and Gov. J.B...
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More ramp closures on the Kennedy, multiple ones reopen late this monthOct 18, 2023 6:40 am - Two new inbound Kennedy Expressway ramps are down for the count this week as a massive rehabilitation continues. The Milwaukee Avenue ramp to the expressway and the Kenn...
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New transit plan clears first hurdle. Next stop, SpringfieldOct 13, 2023 8:59 am - A plan that could raise taxes to rescue regional transit from a “fiscal cliff” and merge Metra, Pace and the CTA is now in the hands of state lawmakers. Members of the C...