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South Side Christmas toy drive seeks donations to serve 10,000 kids: ‘We need a miracle on 95th Street’

The drive, called Operation Cover Chicago, doesn’t have the funds needed to buy enough gifts for the roughly 10,000 kids expected to show up to receive toys Dec. 20.

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds make $2B commitment to CTA Red Line extension

After 50 years of baby steps, the promise Mayor Richard J. Daley made when he opened the 95th Street station in 1969 is nearing the finish line.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago State University faculty strike after months of unsuccessful negotiations: ‘Where there is people there is power’

CHICAGO — The Chicago State University chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois stood on the picket lines Monday after almost a year of negotiating for better wages. More than 70 union members held green and white signs with the words “on strike for a fair contract” at 95th Street…

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Community activist turns attention to safety locks to promote responsible gun ownership

“It’s pretty simple: Children are getting a hold of the guns and shooting themselves or turning it on their brothers and sisters accidentally,” Andrew Holmes said Monday

Chicago Sun-Times

Richard J. Daley talked about it, Lightfoot delivered: City Council approves mass transit TIF to help bankroll Red Line South extension

The City Council on Wednesday created a new transit tax increment financing district to bankroll about one-fourth — $959 million — of the cost of extending the CTA’s Red Line from 95th Street to 130th Street and building four new stations along the way.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man charged with hitting Red Line passenger with bottle, robbing other man

Solomon Washington, 30, is charged with battery, robbery and theft for an incident that occurred early Sunday near the Red Line 95th Street station.

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Chicago police release photos of pair who beat and robbed man on Red Line train near 95th Street station

The two walked up to a man as he was riding the train at 15 W. 95th St. around 2:40 a.m. Sunday, according to a police alert. They rifled through his pockets and hit him in the head with a bottle.

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Student, family attacked outside 95th Street Red Line station: ‘I don’t feel safe in my community, and that sucks’

Police said 10 people began beating a teenager, and when a mother and daughter intervened, people in the group attacked them.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man robbed at gunpoint on Red Line train; suspect critically wounded during struggle

The man, 55, struggled with two suspects over his bag on the train near the 95th Street station about 3 a.m., police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Wilson wants CTA to bring back conductors and its police unit to stop ‘crisis’ of mass transit crime

“If she has 71 security officers around her house, why can’t she protect the citizens that get robbed and things of that nature on the CTA?” asked mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, who rode the Red Line downtown from 95th Street Monday morning.

Chicago Sun-Times

2 shot on I-94 in Longwood Manor

State police responded to a call of a shooting on Interstate 94 near 95th Street about 8 p.m., officials said.

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