People walk near a crosswalk button to cross North LaSalle Street at Lake Street in the Loop, March 18, 2025. The intersection has audible crossing signals.

Chicago installed to order a whole lot more audible crosswalk signals for visually impaired. Right now, only about 3% of intersections have them. Latest ...

City officials have proposed in court a more limited program, to replace up to 70% of the signals over 15 years. In contrast, in a similar case, New York City already had nearly 2,400 warning ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge has ordered Chicago to install audible crossing signals at intersections with traffic lights to help people who are blind or have problems seeing to cross public ...

On a recent rainy morning in Chicago’s Loop, a group of visually impaired students made their way along a sidewalk, sweeping their white canes back and forth to feel curbs and planters.

A federal judge has ordered the city of Chicago equip about 70% of intersections with the audible crossing cues over the next decade, and 100% over the next 15 years. "It's a long time coming ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge has ordered Chicago to install audible crossing signals at intersections with traffic lights to help people who are blind or have problems seeing to cross ...

CHICAGO — On a recent rainy morning in Chicago’s Loop, a group of visually impaired students made their way along a sidewalk, sweeping their white canes back and forth to ...