Residents called for soil sampling, a city ban on all methods of implosion and pollution reviews that factor cumulative impact.
Activists representing various Pilsen and Little Village neighborhood organizations march to the office of Ald. Michael Rodriguez, 22nd, on West 25th Street, Feb. 23, 2023, in Chicago. The groups demonstrated outside the alderman's office before delivering a letter to demand a Spanish translation of a leaked inspector general's report on the 2020 Crawford power plant implosion by Hilco.
Little Village activists met Thursday to deliver a list of demands after a confidential inspector general’s report was recently publicized on the botched Hilco smokestack demolition. According to the report, city officials acted with “willful bureaucratic negligence” when allowing Hilco Redevelopment Partners to implode the smokestack at the old Crawford coal-fired power plant in April 2020. A“This report confirms what our communities have known to be true — that this administration and Hilco cannot be trusted,” said Kim Wasserman, executive director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization at a Thursday morning news conference.
Wasserman, joined by members of other environmental groups, outlined residents’ demands of the city and state at the morning news conference. Activists later delivered those demands in writing to the office of Ald. Michael Rodriguez, 22nd, whose ward includes Little Village. Rodriguez did not comment publicly, but activists who delivered the letter summarized his responses outside his office.
Community members want a meeting with Rodriguez, the city Department of Public Health, Department of Buildings, and Chicago Fire Department where they can ask questions about the dust storm, subsequent policy changes and the ongoing Hilco Development project at 3307 S. Lawndale Ave., Wasserman said.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
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