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Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone had asthma.
Raised among heavy industry on the Southeast Side of Chicago, Colón had no reason to believe otherwise: her entire family and neighbors shared the same respiratory issues. The rituals that came with them – like keeping windows shut to ward off billowing clouds of petroleum coke – seemed ordinary.
She remembers how once or twice a year, she would be driven to the clinic by her mother when her bronchitis would act up, to receive treatment her family often couldn’t afford.
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Isis Camisa, 6, of South Haven, build a snowman with her dad, Antonio, and mom, Rachael, on Sunday morning. Northwest Indiana received 5 to 11 inches of snowfall, according to preliminary reports released by the National Weather Service. John Luke, The Times
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Jacob Wilkerson, of Gary, clears snow from a car Sunday morning. John Luke, The Times
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Robert Scoggins, of Gary, shovels snow Sunday morning. John Luke, The Times
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
The hunger strike comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development take a closer look at city and state actions benefiting Reserve Management Group.
Feds investigating Pritzker EPA for approving new scrap shredder on Chicago s heavily polluted Southeast Side chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gov. J.B. Pritzkerâs administration is facing a federal environmental justice investigation after approving a new scrap shredder in a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood on Chicagoâs Southeast Side.
The probe announced Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency comes amid a separate-but-related investigation of Mayor Lori Lightfootâs administration.
Civil rights divisions at the EPA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are digging into why the state and city cleared Reserve Management Group to build a shredder in the East Side neighborhood after the Ohio-based company agreed to close a similar operation in Lincoln Park, a wealthy, largely white neighborhood on the cityâs North Side.