🚨 CITY FAILURE WORSENS FREEZE THREAT: UNPLOWED ADA RAMPS WILL ICE OVER

(Reporting by the TNW News breaking news team, Weather Center team, and the Chicago division Newsroom team)

[CHICAGO, IL – BNWC NEWS]

The Black Ice Guarantee is now compounded by a critical and potentially life-threatening delay.

The city's effort to clear pedestrian infrastructure has effectively collapsed, with the ADA Ramp Backlog confirmed to be running 2 hours and 15 minutes behind schedule. With temperatures plummeting and a guaranteed 8°F low tonight, this means hundreds of unplowed mobility access ramps across the city are now freezing solid and will become impassable ice sheets within the next 60 minutes.

This failure directly contradicts public safety mandates and places the most vulnerable citizens—those relying on these ramps for essential mobility—in immediate danger as the severe weather event begins.

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