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Both U.S. senators from Illinois and two U.S. representatives have spoken out in favor of efforts to prevent a metal recycler from opening a facility on the city s Southeast Side.
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Jahmal Cole, right, talks to young people in the My Block, My Hood, My City nonprofit that he founded. | Photo courtesy Jahmal Cole
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A protester attends a rally demanding Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to deny the final permit that will allow General Iron to move from Lincoln Park, a mostly white neighborhood, to the Southeast Side, which has a mostly Latino population, at 3325 W. Wrightwood Ave. near Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 14, 2020. General Iron’s metal shredding facility in Lincoln Park has received several citations for pollution, nuisance law violations and explosions. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
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We have never liked the idea of General Iron relocating its metal scrapping operations to the Southeast Side.
The state approved relocating the long time North Side environmental headache from predominately white and well-off Lincoln Park to South Deering, a working class Latino and Black community historically overburdened with toxic industries and the health problems that come as a result.