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A month into a hunger strike protesting the relocation of the General Iron metal-shredding business to the Southeast Side, activists said they were ending their campaign and noted their disappointment that Mayor Lori Lightfoot didn’t meet with them.
Yesenia Chavez, a lifelong resident of the Southeast Side and one of the first four hunger strikers, said at a rally Thursday night that she lost 17 pounds and experienced a host of physical and psychological stresses.
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“I was 134 pounds when I started. Today I am 117 pounds,” Chavez told a crowd of around 150 supporters outside Grace United Methodist Church near Lightfoot’s house in Logan Square.
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In early May 2018, some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s top aides were emailing each other about their concern that a pair of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers were about to go public with a study showing the poor air quality around the General Iron metal-shredding facility in Lincoln Park.
Dr. Julie Morita, then the city’s commissioner of public health, was preparing to meet with the researchers. She kept Deputy Mayor Robert Rivkin and Chicago Planning and Development Commissioner David Reifman apprised of developments. Morita, in an email heavily redacted by city officials in response to an open-records request, suggested going to UIC’s top brass to intervene.
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