All that is left of the former Acme Steel plant on Chicago’s Southeast Side are a pair of soot-covered smokestacks and a few other graffiti-riddled ruins that draw curious passersby to the weed-strewn property. Two nearby industrial wastelands have been cleaned up and transformed into city parks. But the Acme site is still contaminated with a century’s worth of cancer-causing chemicals and .
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