Diesel Trucks Swarm In Chicago Neighborhood Already Plagued By Pollution And Racism

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The project will bring at least 178 permanent jobs to a neighborhood where chronic unemployment provides a steady stream of recruits for murderous street gangs. It will replace a coal-fired power plant that spewed soot and sulfur dioxide into the neighborhood for nearly a century, and that’s been rotting away since closing in 2012. But to neighborhood activist Kim Wasserman, this e-commerce incursion into Little Village is still a prime example of environmental racism.