Marni Pyke
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Hopping on the Kennedy for Cubs, concerts? More lane closures aheadMay 17, 2024 6:00 am - Just when you thought the inbound Kennedy Expressway lanes were free and clear — they're not. Illinois Department of Transportation crews begin installing a massive over...
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Metra piling more trains on UP and Milwaukee lines; Edgewater stop to debutMay 13, 2024 4:46 pm - Metra continues a restoration of service disrupted during COVID-19 by adding more trains to its Union Pacific and Milwaukee District lines this spring and summer.
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From ho-hum to 6 levels: New parking lot at O’Hare’s Terminal 5 hits milestoneMay 13, 2024 11:25 am - Anyone who’s parked at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5 knows the lot is about as fancy as a strip mall’s. That will change in October when the Chicago Departme...
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‘Right now, it’s almost a nightmare’: After years of crashes, IDOT eyeing fix for exit ramp in ElginMay 13, 2024 6:00 am - Elgin resident Christopher Hilton’s wish is simple — a yard without careening cars. After years of screeching tires and hawklike vigilance when his three kids play outsid...
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Ascension confirms hack, disruption impacts health records, put some hospitals on diversionMay 09, 2024 9:34 am - Ascension health care confirmed a cyberattack Thursday and said it was “working around the clock,” to restore offline systems, including patient records. The hack was dis...
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‘Time for action is now’: Wheaton residents call for pedestrian traffic light on Roosevelt RoadMay 08, 2024 6:47 pm - Wheaton residents and educators implored state lawmakers to help save lives and fund a stoplight on a perilous stretch of Roosevelt Road at a Wednesday hearing in Springf...
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‘Beautiful’ is lovely: Feel the earth move with vibrant take on Carole King’s life at ParamountMay 08, 2024 3:29 pm - It might be an oxymoron to call a toe-tapping and funny musical gripping, but “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” playing at Aurora’s Paramount Theatre is just that.
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Metra ‘wants to be part of the conversation’ on merging with CTA and Pace, but stays neutralMay 07, 2024 6:23 pm - Metra leaders issued a carefully worded statement Tuesday about the commuter railroad’s potential merger with Pace, the CTA and the Regional Transportation Authority. “We...
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Dino-might: Field Museum’s Archaeopteryx may be the ‘most important fossil ever’May 06, 2024 6:11 pm - The Field Museum’s iconic T. rex, Sue, may be a little jealous. There’s a new exhibit in town, Archaeopteryx, and it’s “perhaps the most important fossil ever discovered,...
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A good deal for the suburbs? Transit merger proposal raises questions about finances, fairnessMay 06, 2024 6:00 am - Ripple effects continue from a proposal to abolish the boards of Metra, Pace, the Chicago Transit Authority and the Regional Transportation Authority and merge the four a...