Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, August 18, 2016.
  • Art Institute student killed by semitruck that veered into bike lane

              Twenty-year-old Lisa Kuivinen (who identified as non-gender-binary and went by plural pronouns) was riding their bike in the bike lane on Milwaukee Avenue Tuesday morning when they were fatally struck by a semitruck, according to authorities. Kuivinen was the third Chicago cyclist killed this year. [Streetsblog Chicago]