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FORD IN CHICAGO
• Rob Ford’s greatest hits [Toronto Sun]
• Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz invites Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to the city after geographical error [Toronto Sun]
• Rob Ford to Chicago: ‘Toronto is open for business’ [Toronto Sun]
• Ford declares Chicago trip ‘a victory for Toronto’ [Toronto Star]
• I’m really pumped up,’ Toronto Mayor Rob Ford gushes on meeting with Rahm Emanuel, connections to Chicago [National Post]
• Girl in Chicago: I’ve been to Canada, ‘that part across from Detroit.’ Rob Ford: ‘Winnipeg?’ [National Post]
• Rob Ford declares Chicago trade mission won’t cost taxpayers ‘a dime’ despite evidence to the contrary [National Post]
• Mayor Ford in Chicago: Toronto is open for business [Globe & Mail]
• Councillors didn’t travel to Chicago by gravy train [Globe & Mail]

FORD’S FOLLIES
• Reporters ordered to stay off Don Bosco property during football practice [Toronto Star]
• Mayor Rob Ford out of town, but aide and city car appear at football practice [Toronto Star]
Mayor Ford pressed city on repairs to road outside family business [Globe and Mail]

TTC
• TTC won’t operate Eglinton LRT [Toronto Star]
• ‘The way he died was just unfair’: Colleagues, relatives pack church to mourn TTC worker killed by train [National Post]
•  Mourners gather for funeral of TTC worker killed on the job [Globe & Mail]

SPEED LIMITS
• Should residential areas have a default speed limit of 40km/h? [Toronto Star]
• Lower residential speed limits, Ontario coroner urges [Globe & Mail]

OTHER NEWS
• Emergency response times are improving in Toronto, but they’re still well below standards [National Post]
• Marriage on the decline in Toronto, Census shows [Globe & Mail]