Traffic crashes accounted for 39 deaths, among pedestrians and cyclists under age 20 in Cook County between 2018 and 2022.
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Chicago Tribune

Can Chicago make its streets safe for students to walk and bike to school?

Low-cost interventions that Chicago and other cities have added to select streets in the last two decades to make school routes safer for students to walk and bike to school have brought communities lasting benefits — and spurred a precipitous decline in injuries, experts say. But local data suggests much work is to be done.

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