City official lays out stark disparities between Lincoln Park, Southeast Side where scrap-metal shredder wants to open
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Heather Cherone | July 29, 2021 7:23 pm
An aerial shot of the newly constructed Southside Recycling, 11600 S. Burley Ave. (Courtesy of Reserve Management Group)
The parent company of General Iron, which wants to operate a metal shredding and recycling operation on Chicago’s Southeast Side, failed to notify city officials that a vacant building collapsed on the site of the proposed facility, officials said Thursday.
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Officials with the city’s Department of Buildings discovered Wednesday that the roof of a vacant building on the RMG industrial campus at 11600 S. Burley Ave. partially collapsed in April when a firm applied for a permit to demolish the rest of the building, officials said.