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CHICAGO — Straight out of the starting blocks, Chicago is learning how hard it will be to write an ordinance to reduce a broad array of pollutants built up over many years across a big, diverse city. Chicago’s first-ever “Cumulative Impact Assessment,” released in September, is already sparking debate. In its current form, the assessment contains an index that assigns a 35.3 percentile ...

Straight out of the starting blocks, Chicago is learning how hard it will be to write an ordinance to reduce a broad array of pollutants built up over many years across a big, diverse city. Chicago’s first-ever “Cumulative Impact Assessment,” released in September, is already sparking debate. In its current form, the assessment contains an index that assigns a 35.3 percentile environmental ...

A recent report on the distribution of pollution and industry across Chicago could be a first step to addressing decades of discriminatory planning, zoning and land-use policies in Chicago. But,

A recent report on the distribution of pollution and industry across Chicago could be a first step to addressing decades of discriminatory planning, zoning and land-use policies in Chicago. But, some residents on the South and West sides say their communities have been overlooked yet again. Coined a cumulative impact assessment and released by the Johnson administration in September, the ...

Johnson and Vallas seemed to align in some ways on setting up a Department of the Environment, but clashed on other issues.