SPECIAL REPORT: If Marconi closes, students will have to walk past drug dealers on way to Tilton

PART 2 OF 3: If Marconi Community Academy is approved Wednesday to be closed, its students will be sent to Tilton Elementary School, just half a mile away but across one of West Garfield Park’s open-air drug markets.

• CTA Red Line shutdown’s big test: ‘No problems at all,’ riders say

  The CTA’s total shutdown of the Red Line between Cermak and 95th Street to rebuild tracks and stations — disrupting 80,000 weekday commuters — got its first rush-hour test Monday morning. The early verdict: Not bad.

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