Almost a decade after the city set out to eliminate all traffic deaths by 2026, nearly as many people are dying on Chicago streets as they were when the ambitious goal was announced.

The number of yearly injuries and crashes on the roads has actually increased in that time, despite the city’s efforts to upgrade dangerous intersections and install miles of bike lanes, among other safety measures.

In 2024, Chicago logged 109 deaths on the road — 38 pedestrians, two cyclists and 69 people in vehicles. Although that represents a drop from a spike in deaths during the pandemic, that’s only 18 fewer than in 2017 when the city’s Vision Zero plan was published.

And more than 23,000 people were injured in crashes in 2023, the most recent year for which collision data is available — an 8% increas

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