On Poisoned Ground: East Chicago’s legacy of lead pollution

"East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned."

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Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show

"Chicago required the use of lead service lines between street mains and homes until Congress banned the practice in 1986. Yet as Mayor Rahm Emanuel borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to overhaul the city’s public water system, Chicago is keeping lead service lines in the ground."

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Illinois Cops: Don’t Legalize Weed, Or We’ll Have to Kill Our Drug Dogs

"Sheriff Buffett isn't just any sheriff. He's the son of Omaha billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and he's used his family wealth both to finance law enforcement spending in the county and to basically buy his way into the sheriff's office."

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