Sun-Times file
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Administration denied to federal investigators that it helped General Iron’s owner relocate its car-shredding operation to the Southeast Side from Lincoln Park, despite a previous agreement to assist in the company’s “expeditious transition” to the new location.
“The proposed expansion is not a relocation of General Iron’s operation at North Clifton but an entirely distinct effort undertaken by a different entity,” city lawyers wrote to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this week.
The letter, dated Tuesday, defends the city’s actions as HUD officials continue their investigation into whether the Lightfoot Administration violated Southeast Side residents’ civil rights. Advocacy groups have accused the city of helping move a polluting nuisance to a Latino-majority neighborhood to make way for a $6 billion residential and retail development in the mostly white and affluent Lincoln Park. The new facility bei