that his test results were all "positive"!

It is caused by gang warfare in the streets... this is the most challenging problem Chicago faces, and a huge failure for leadership so far..

Indiana KNEW of the smelting pollution, but since the residents were all people of color, they didn't care.

Also, cadmium, copper, heavy metals

They had to know that it was across the street from a superfund site and should have known (via title searches etc) that it was on the site of a small lead smelter. This is brain dead ... as well as unconscionable.

Yes, it is confusing. I was born in East Chicago, Indiana and moved to a nearby town at 7 years old -- 59 years ago. I remembered the name of the street where my family lived and just spent about 15 minutes looking at google maps. The toxic site is between where we lived and where my grand parents lived. The area we lived in, 5 minutes from the nearest corner of the Superfund site was a friendly, lower middle class neighborhood then -- and mostly white. I remember that in winter, the adults turned the center of block into a skating rink once the temperatures got consistently low enough.

That area experienced the classic white flight where white people who could moved from East Chicago, Hammond, and Gary to the suburbs - like Highland, Griffith and Munster - then Schererville, Merriville and Crown Point.

over the steel plants?

Gawd, that had one awful stink. As ein junger, I could not wait to get away from that area.

Because of family connections. I was able to get a job in the office of one of Inland Steel's mills in the summer - making a lot more money than my previous job at a suburban DQ - owned by friends of my parents. Like you, leaving the area - first to Bloomington and then for a job in Morris County NJ - was something I did without hesitation.

I think as a child, I may not have considered that that was not normal ... sadly. I hope the federal government/State/City move quickly, but I really doubt they will. They may need to garner attention as Flint, MI did. (Wonder if Pence being VP might make that more likely - as he clearly is not responding to this ... though he did pass out play do in Louisiana.

Original material? If so, well done!

I did concoct it, but sadly, it mimics the truth too much. I could actually imagine him doing this.