Extra Extra: CTA Waives $5 Ventra Fee For Remainder Of 2013
By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 30, 2013 9:00PM
- CTA announced Friday it was waiving its $5 fee to obtain a Ventra card through the end of the year. [Tribune]
- Take a look inside a cinder-block hut built by a homeless man on the site of a failed Wicker Park condo project. [DNAInfo Chicago]
- Smokers who flick their cigarette butts on the street or out a car window in Illinois can face a $1,500 fine for littering under a law that takes effect Jan. 1. [Rockford Register Star]
- The man accused of trying to blow up Cal's Liquors earlier this year was also charged with trying to arrange the murder of an FBI agent slated to testify against him. [Reuters]
- Illinois has a low HPV vaccination rate for girls. [Fox News Chicago]
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