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A boil order was issued Thursday afternoon after a Southwest Side pumping station shut down for about an hour, affecting thousands of people in Morgan Park and Beverly.
The 110-year-old station lost power from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. after maintenance by Commonwealth Edison, according to Richard Guidice, executive director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
The outage largely affected people in the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods, officials said, adding that the cause was being investigated.
A city map shows the area under a boil order.
Department of Water Management
Buildings as far west as Albany Avenue, north of 119th Street, and west of I-57 to southwest of Beverly Avenue, are under a boil order. The boil order was issued “out of an abundance of caution” while the water is being tested, according to Andrea Chang, deputy commissioner for the Department of Water Management.
Boil order lifted for thousands of residents on the Southwest Side
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - A boil order issued for thousands of people on the Southwest Side has been lifted after officials determined the water is safe to drink.
Water samples tested by the Department of Water Management verified the water is safe to drink, department spokeswoman Megan Vidis said in a statement Friday morning.
The boil order was issued Thursday afternoon as a precaution after a 110-year-old pumping station in Roseland shut down for about an hour on Thursday, according to Richard Guidice, executive director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
Blue Spring Farm, where Julia lived. This is the last standing slave building on the property, likely used as a kitchen. Courtesy photo
by PETER DORFMAN
Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers regards her work as an academic focused on slavery and Black women’s history as a “labor of recovery.” Her subjects, many illiterate, left little behind.
Myers’ second book,
The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn, due out in 2022, focuses on the life of Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman in the early 1800s, on the Kentucky estate of Richard Mentor Johnson. Chinn had two children by Johnson, to whom she was married for 23 years. Because Chinn was Black, the marriage was not legal, but Johnson publicly treated her as his spouse. Chinn was literate, and Johnson put her in charge of the plantation (including oversight of the enslaved laborers) when he was away from home. “She was his wife in every sense,” Myers asserts.
My New Orleans
04/01/2021
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