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Chicago lags behind other major cities that have audio signals at street crossings for blind pedestrians. Boston has more than 300. Chicago has 18.

Chicago lags behind major cities that have audio signals at street crossings for blind pedestrians. Boston has more than 300. Chicago has 18.
Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune
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Denise Avant uses a crosswalk with a voice command at the corner of Roscoe Street and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago s Lakeview neighborhood on April 15, 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit against the city that alleges it doesn t provide enough of these accessible pedestrian signals.
In 2019, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago would make the city’s intersections more accessible for blind and low-vision pedestrians, pledging on the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act to add more crossing signals with audible tones. ....

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Daytona attorney overcomes blindness, alcoholism to re-pass Bar exam

Four years ago, Norton moved to Daytona Beach, home of the Division of Blind Services rehabilitation center, where he learned new skills, graduated from the Daytona State College paralegal program and, at age 72 earlier this month, passed the Florida Bar exam more than 40 years after clearing it the first time.
For Norton, life is again going swimmingly.
One day in Miami
Norton had a charmed childhood. Born in San Diego in 1949, his family moved to New York, then later Miami, following the career arc of his father, Dr. Edward Norton, an ophthalmologist who was on his way to founding the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami today the U.S. News & World Report No. 1 rated eye hospital. ....

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