Chicago’s Southeast Side neighborhood advocates hope changes to zoning and land-use rules could curb some polluters. Presented by SiemensUSA ad
As a kid, Oscar Sanchez remembers his brother wearing a special mask to help him breathe at night. He was among many residents of Chicago's Southeast Side with asthma and other respiratory diseases.and is among the most polluted sections of the city — the legacy of landfills, chemical-incineration plants, scrapyards, now closed steel mills, and other environmental hazards. It's also predominantly Black and Latino.
"If you take away our health, you take away our wealth," Sanchez, a community planning manager at the, told Insider."Just because you're poor doesn't mean you should be treated poorly." The first-of-its-kind settlement with HUD could be a model for environmental justice advocates in other cities. Robert Weinstock, an attorney representing two environmental-justice groups who's also the director of the Environmental Advocacy Center at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, said that structural racism exists everywhere he's looked in the US, but it is baked into policies in different ways.
"This is a historical time for us," Cheryl Johnson, the executive director of People for Community Recovery, told Insider."Now all levels of city government have to listen to us and develop policies that are protective of public health."that her mother in the 1970s dubbed the"toxic donut"
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