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Re:911 emergency services go down across the US after Centur... by JadeNB on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:13PM (#18792963)
> 911 is a creaky old system put in place by a Chicago mayor looking to score some points with the electorate.

I'm always interested in Chicago history, so I went looking, but couldn't find anything at, for example, https://www.nena.org/page/911overviewfacts . Do you know anywhere this history is written up?

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Re:911 emergency services go down across the US after Centur... by JadeNB on Monday December 31, 2018 @10:02PM (#18798657)
Ah, I may have seen what you mean. According to https://www.countyofunion.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=180009... :

> 1976 Chicago claims to have had "the first enhanced 911 system of any major city" in the United States.

… so I guess in

> > 911 is a creaky old system put in place by a Chicago mayor looking to score some points with the electorate.

you meant E911 (which, as the linked page points out, is a nebulously defined and variously implemented technology), not necessarily 911?

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