The Environmental Protection Agency said Chicago and Cook County contributes more smog violations in other states than any other county in the nation.
Visitors from Illinois to Wisconsin are greeted warmly when they enter the state, but the unwanted guest of lung-damaging smog produced by Chicago and suburban Cook County also drifts across the border.
The EPA projects Chicago and Cook County suburbs will account for more than 25% of this summer's smog problems in Kenosha.
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