Chicago soul-funk band Pieces of Peace didn’t put out their only album till 35 years after they broke up.
Tag: Pollution
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East Side residents enraged by manganese pollution tear into city and federal officials
“Half-assed everything, that’s what we get.”
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Dangerous levels of heavy metals found at homes near industrial storage facility
Samples in four homes showed manganese concentrations beyond the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for Superfund sites.
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U.S. Steel dumped more toxic chromium into Lake Michigan in October, asked state regulators to ‘keep it secret’, and other Chicago news
Also, man freed by Cook County state’s attorney’s office after serving 29 years in jail on two wrongful convictions of arson.
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An East Chicago community dissolves in the fallout from a decades-long lead crisis
Residents from the West Calumet community in East Chicago are scattering across the region as they flee dangerously contaminated homes.
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EPA employees are mad as hell and they’re not taking Trump’s policies any more
Longtime bureaucrats are stepping into the limelight to protest the president.
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Some East Chicago residents fleeing lead contamination are being moved to Chicago’s ‘toxic doughnut’
Altgeld Gardens is a poor place for relocation, residents say.
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A bus tour stops by polluted Altgeld Gardens
For more than 30 years, residents of the south-side housing project—called the “toxic doughnut”—have been fighting for environmental justice.
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One more reason to thank God the Koch brothers didn’t buy the Tribune
Chicago Tribune links refinery waste to brothers once interested in buying the paper.
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There goes the Englewood neighborhood
The city levels a swath of the Englewood community to make way for a rail yard.
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Lake Michigan politely returns our trash
I recently wrote about how much I love swimming in the lake, and how I sometimes see litter on the lake bottom when I’m offshore a couple hundred yards. That hasn’t been an issue this week. Winds, currents, and waves stirred up the water enough that it’s been so cloudy I could barely see my […]
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Youth Violence: The lead cause?
Could lead abatement lead to declines in urban crime? It’s a theory that’s been kicking around for awhile.
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Chicago’s 2016 Olympic Bid
Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke on Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games
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The Redevelopment-Via-Upscale-Golf-Course Plan
High-priced golfing has arrived in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Now we’ll see if rising fortunes follow.