CTA ‘committed’ to Red Line Extension despite federal funding freeze, acting president says • Bernard Joseph Ford, former CTA executive director, dies at 89
Working Lunch Thursday, October 9, 2025 | | |
| | Experts, as well as union leaders representing air traffic controllers and security screeners, warn that the impact could grow significantly worse if the government shutdown continues and employees start to miss paychecks. | | | Advocates for the Red Line Extension, discussed for 50 years, describe it as an overdue promise to the people of the city’s Far South Side. | | | Bernard Ford was a longtime transit executive who led the Chicago Transit Authority as its executive director from 1982 until 1985, and again from 1989 until 1990. | | | Federal auto safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into Tesla’s so-called full-self driving technology. | | | President Donald Trump could soon move to cancel more than $1 billion in federal grants for General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV and $800 million total in Michigan. | | | Before the arrival of sprawling suburban malls featuring amusement park rides and stores peddling anything from jeans to jelly beans, there was Hudson’s in downtown Detroit. | | | The City Council wants more info on traffic management plans for the Dutch Bros drive-thru coffee shop proposed for Naperville. | | | Gov. Mike Braun has appointed businessman Tom Collins Jr. as the new chairman of the Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority, replacing former congressman Peter Visclosky who resigned in July. | | | |