Justice Department holds Chicago in violation of American With Disabilities Act

The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that Chicago has violated the Americans With Disabilities Act for its lack of special crossing signals for blind and sight-compromised pedestrians. Accessible pedestrian signals provide pedestrians with safe-crossing information in a non-visual format, such as audible tones, speech messages and vibrating surfaces. The ruling stems from a disability discrimination lawsuit filed in late 2019 by the American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago and three visually disabled individuals. The suit alleged that the city violated disabled pedestrian...