It used to be far worse....

My friend sent me this. As of June 7, 1925, 304 on-street deaths in Chicago had occurred that year. By way of comparison, in 2017 there were 132 for the whole year, and that was a substantial increase. It's hard to imaging how dangerous the streets were back then.

CarDeaths1925.pdf

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 7, 2019 at 10:05am

Interesting indeed. So many seem to have been run down in the street. Looks like lots of children & older folks. The one that caught my eye in particular was the first listing under May: "James Aldrich, 83, watchman...Parnell av. Vampire."

"vampire???!"