A federal judge has ordered the city of Chicago equip about 70% of intersections with the audible crossing cues over the next ...

The plan is in response to a class action lawsuit filed in 2019. It requires the city to install more than 1,700 specialized ...

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 streets.

The order follows a ruling last year that found that the city failed to fully install audible crosswalk signals at nearly 97% of the city’s 13,200 intersections with pedestrian signals.

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 streets.