ALT 1. Text: Mayor Johnson & CDOT Improve Traffic Safety for Students and Families at Schools Across Chicago. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson, in a bike helmet on a Chicago Cubs Divvy bike, waves at the camera while riding a bike surrounded by children and parents riding bikes on the way to school in North Center.

ALT 2. Text: Mayor Johnson’s School Zone Program makes streets around schools safer with infrastructure designed to protect students and families on their way to class, with improvements like curb extensions, pedestrian refuge islands, and raised crosswalks. Image: A Safe Passage worker, in a yellow vest, helps a Black elementary school student cross the street to school in Englewood, with cars in the background.

ALT 3. Text: These investments build on citywide progress in traffic safety under Mayor Johnson, with traffic fatalities in Chicago declining 35% from their 2021 peak, beating national trends. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson high fives a young elementary school student outside Hamilton in North Center, surrounded by other excited elementary school students.

ALT 4. Text: The School Zone Program is one part of the Mayor Johnson’s broader investment in safer streets around schools, parks, transit, commercial corridors and other neighborhood destinations. In 2026 alone, the Program has improved streets around: Edison Regional Gifted Academy, Englewood STEM High School, Hefferan Elementary, Hibbard Elementary, Hubbard High School, Johnson College Prep, Mays Elementary, Parker Community Academy, Senn High School, Sizemore Academy, St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Urban Prep Academy. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers remarks outside Mays Academy in Englewood, whose sign says 'Welcome Mayor Brandon Johnson"