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But, no, every now and then something unexpected pops up, forcing me to exclaim:
Damn, that’s outrageous even for Chicago.
And so it was that last Thursday my eyes fell on the headline over an article by Brett Chase in the
Sun-Times.
Uh-oh, Mayor Rahm in trouble?
Turns out that back in May 2018, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago were preparing to release a report documenting “poor air quality” around the General Iron scrap metal facility near the proposed Lincoln Yards development on the north side.
For reasons unstated, Emanuel administration officials were alarmed about the report, as Chase discovered by plowing through dozens of highly redacted e-mails.
Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
In early May 2018, some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s top aides were emailing each other about their concern that a pair of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers were about to go public with a study showing the poor air quality around the General Iron metal-shredding facility in Lincoln Park.
Dr. Julie Morita, then the city’s commissioner of public health, was preparing to meet with the researchers. She kept Deputy Mayor Robert Rivkin and Chicago Planning and Development Commissioner David Reifman apprised of developments. Morita, in an email heavily redacted by city officials in response to an open-records request, suggested going to UIC’s top brass to intervene.
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