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CHICAGO â A metal recycling company s bid to relocate to the Southeast Side hit another roadblock last week when a federal judge tossed out its lawsuit against the city of Chicago. Reserve Management Group (RMG), which bought the former General Iron recycling facility on the North Side and hoped to move it across the city, filed suit after Mayor Lori Lightfoot halted the permitting process. Join Tristan DeFord, Jami Rieck, and Nancy Zakutanksky on a shift working for Superior Ambulance in Merrillville. Lightfoot s decision came after U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Michael Regan asked the city to launch an environmental justice investigation into the possible effects of the move to a site at 116th Street and Burley Avenue in the East Side neighborhood. ....
CHICAGO â When news broke last week that city officials had halted the permitting process for a controversial metal recycler s relocation to the Southeast Side, it was an emotional moment for Yesenia Chavez. I was pretty shocked by it, she said Monday. I m not going to lie, stunned. I had to process everything. I cried for sure. Ride along with LaPorte Police Specialist Justin Dyer as he patrols the streets of LaPorte. Chavez was part of a group of Southeast Side residents who staged a hunger strike earlier this year. The strikers aimed to bring attention to local opposition to the Reserve Management Group s bid to open the metal recycling facility at 116th Street and Burley Avenue in the East Side neighborhood. Southeast Side activists consider the facility to be a successor to the General Iron site in Lincoln Park that closed on Dec. 31, 2020, after being cited for multiple environmental and safety violations. ....
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season Isis Camisa, 6, of South Haven, build a snowman with her dad, Antonio, and mom, Rachael, on Sunday morning. Northwest Indiana received 5 to 11 inches of snowfall, according to preliminary reports released by the National Weather Service. John Luke, The Times UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season Jacob Wilkerson, of Gary, clears snow from a car Sunday morning. John Luke, The Times UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season Robert Scoggins, of Gary, shovels snow Sunday morning. John Luke, The Times UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season ....
Four local organizations recently received an early Christmas present of $1,000 each from Christian County Farm Bureau Association to help feed people in need during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives from the Salvation Army, Aaron McNeil House, Impact Ministry and Micah Mission collected their organizationâs checks recently at Farm Bureauâs Burley Avenue location. âEspecially this time of the year and with the pandemic, it is very important to help out the local community,â said J.E. Pryor, farm bureau president. âI know there are many people out there who are suffering because of the pandemic. We want to try to help as many as we can.â ....