At Streetsblog Chicago, we try to do writeups of every case in which a person walking, biking, or riding an e-scooter dies in a traffic crash on our city’s surface streets. We often hear about these cases through Google searches for sustainable transportation-related news stories, which appear in our daily Today’s Headlines post.
We also learn about incidents from the Chicago Police Department’s Media Major Incident Notifications website. In some cases, Police News Affairs can provide additional information.
Another source is the Monthly Fatal Crash Summaries released by the Chicago Department of Transportation. These reports are typically published a month or two after traffic crashes occur. Currently the most recent report is for July 2026…