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Brett Chase

Reporter - (Environmental, Planning & Public Health)

Brett Chase reports on environmental protection, pollution and public health. He is a former investigative reporter for the Better Government Association, and, before that, worked at Bloomberg News, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Crain’s Chicago Business. He has a journalism degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and has taught journalism at Loyola University in Chicago.

Marlene Hopkins was the city official in charge of reviewing plans for the 2020 Crawford coal plant implosion that ended up blanketing the Southwest Side community in dust.
Guzmán ganó a pesar de recaudar menos de $658,000, una cuarta parte de la cantidad de su oponente.
With almost 90% of the vote counted, Guzmán was declared the winner over Toro, defeating her with almost 50% of the vote to Toro’s 30%. Guzmán won despite raising less than $658,000, or about a quarter of the amount of money raised for Toro.
Crawford had the backing of Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch. However, Guzmán beats Senate incumbent Toro in another test of Democratic establishment muscle.
In all, 129,000 children, 68% of those 5 or younger, had lead in their home drinking water, a study found.
The addition of the long-abandoned and contaminated Acme Steel plant’s land to the government’s priority cleanup list offers hope of a conversion to a park or other place for recreation.
After three years of behind-the-scenes planning, trash hauler LRS scraps an idea to send waste down to Central Illinois from the Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Las acciones de Marlene Hopkins y el ex funcionario, Jorge Herrera, “constituyeron una mala administración pública”, según reporte.
Los funcionarios ambientales de Illinois reforzarán su supervisión de los contaminadores que estén estableciendo operaciones o expandiéndose.