Donald Gleichman passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the McAlester News Capital on 2024-04-03.
After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago s Lincoln Park Zoo at the same intersection where a 4-year-old girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver years earlier.
Nearly 3,000 Chicago intersections are equipped with visual crossing signals, yet fewer than three dozen include audible cues. In a landmark victory for blind residents challenging the accessibility of a major city s signalized crosswalks, a federal judge in March ruled in a class-action lawsuit that such disparity violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.