Neighbors For Environmental Justice (N4EJ) @n4ej.org · Jun 12

When we say Chicago uses planning and zoning to keep pollution out of white neighborhoods and put it in communities of color, this is what that looks like. The General Iron fight happened because the city tried to move a scrap metal shredder from the first area to the second one

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Neighbors For Environmental Justice (N4EJ) · Jun 12

( Strictly speaking, General Iron itself was located in that tiny pink strip of the 2nd ward immediately next to the 43rd. But the 2nd Ward is a gerrymandered tetris nightmare, and the city wanted to protect Lincoln Park )