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Midday News Links

By Staff in News on Jul 25, 2011 5:32PM

  • Chicago Breaking News reports the Kinzie Street bike lane is completed. Must be official. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • A University of Chicago student and her parents were killed in a plane crash near downstate Rantoul. [Tribune]
  • Sun-Times Media Group reconsiders a surprise fee to retirement plans after members of the Newspapers Guild Union objected. [Crain's]
  • The Civic Federation offers up recommendations to make the City budget financially sustainable. [Chicago News Cooperative]
  • A Chicago cop catches a baby thrown to him by a kidnapping suspect. [Sun-Times]
  • Sen. Dick Durbin announces federal funding for Red Line upgrades. [CBS Chicago]
  • A $7 million plan is in place to put more surveillance cameras into Chicago Public Schools. [ABC 7]