Extra Extra: CTA To Overhaul Orange, Brown Line Cars
By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 11, 2015 11:30PM
- CTA is spending $166 million to overhaul 257 rail cars on the Brown and Orange Lines in order to get a few more years of service from them. We'd be happy with no Hobo Corner surprises. [Tribune]
- Bulls guard Jimmy Butler is listed as day-to-day with a shoulder injury. [CBS Chicago]
- A proposed call center in Englewood could bring 1,200 jobs to the struggling neighborhood. [DNAInfo Chicago]
- Some Grateful Dead fans hoping for tickets to the band's farewell shows at Soldier Field are receiving rejection letters instead. Bummer, man. [DNAInfo Chicago]
- Gov. Bruce Rauner took time away from waging war on organized labor to say he's confident the state has the money to fund schools and other programs. (Rauner didn't say what wouldn't be funded, however.) [Fox News Chicago]
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