Chicago drivers should be on the lookout for pedestrians Monday evening. City officials are stepping up efforts to make sure motorists pay attention to crosswalks.

It almost happened Monday afternoon, as Jamie Gagamov and her children entered the crosswalk at Belmont Avenue and Orchard Street, on Chicago’s North Side.

GAGAMOV: This area in general is kind of busy.  The taxi cabs are usually pretty good about stopping, but then another car wasn’t even paying attention that we were in the intersection, so luckily, we were paying attention.

That’s why off-duty undercover cops and city transportation officials will be posted at the intersection for two hours Monday night.

They’ll be ticketing drivers who don’t stop for pedestrians.

The city’s been conducting these crosswalk stings since last year, but this will be the first one held at night.

A spokesman for the city Department of Transportation says there were 99 nighttime crashes involving pedestrians in Wrigleyville between 2005 and 2007.

It’s one of four areas officials will be targeting over the next few months.