Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times 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. Lea este artículo en español en , un servicio presentado por AARP Chicago. “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.