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A recent ruling was a second landmark victory for blind residents who challenged the accessibility of a major city's signalized crosswalks.

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.

A recent federal court ruling criticizing street crossing signals in Chicago could push other cities to install accessible pedestrian signals.

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.