Strong winds Friday were partially to blame for a streetlight coming crashing onto two vehicles in Streeterville.
of Columbus Drive and Grand Avenue. It also had a rusty base and had looked questionable for years.
The falling poles have left pedestrians injured too. A couple of years ago, a pole fell onto a 25-year-old woman's Jeep at Illinois Street and McClurg Court – from the intersection where the last two incidents happened. That incident left the woman, Isabella Keating, with the concussion, and resulted in a lawsuit against the city.
Kirk suffered serious injuries to her heard and leg when the pole snapped at its base as she walked past the State of Illinois' James R. Thompson Center, around 161 N. LaSalle St. The faulty pole problem spurred the city to commission a $2.5 million audit years ago, where surveyors examined and graded every pole in Chicago - more than 300,000 of them. and found 10 percent - more than 30,000 poles - were graded as having a concerning problem.While the Chicago Department of Transportation has replaced many light poles throughout the city. But the fact is plenty of rusty poles are still standing around Chicago – and they keep falling.
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