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Chicago violated residents’ civil rights by relocating polluting business to Latino and Black neighborhood, federal agency finds
CHICAGO — The metropolis violated the civil rights of its people by participating in a “driving role” in the proposed relocation of a scrap steel facility with a background of pollution problems from a primarily white neighborhood in Chicago’s North Facet to a mostly Latino and Black neighborhood in the Southeast Side, in accordance to the success of a two-year-very long federal investigation. In a letter obtained by NBC News outlining its findings and shipped Tuesday to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the U.S. Office of Housing and Urban Progress mentioned it located that the town experienced a “broader plan of shifting polluting pursuits from White neighborhoods to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods,…
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Lucrative Business Ideas for Startups in Chicago
The pandemic crisis has put a good deal of stress on entrepreneurs. With the disrupted provide chain and significant limits, they had limited operations. As a end result, lots of companies opted to shut temporarily or forever. It marked a enormous downturn in the US financial state considering that the Global Fiscal Crisis in 2008. Now, the nation sees a new hope amidst the continued vaccination and border reopenings. Firms in most cities are returning, stimulating manufacturing, income, and marketplace demand. Thanks to the strategic restoration roadmap of the regional federal government, like in Chicago. It now presents extra optimistic expansion prospective buyers across industries. Hence, we will focus on…
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Chicago small businesses suffer from crime plague with no ‘effort’ from city to stop it
Civil Rights Attorney Leo Terrell argues that Lori Lightfoot is one of the ‘worst’ mayors in the country and her policies are causing the crime spike in Chicago. Chicago small business owners are coping with theft and destruction while, according to them, there is no “collaborative effort” from local leaders to crack down on rampant crime sweeping the city. “When we’re like, as a small business, worried about constantly being robbed like that – we’re very easy to break into – and we’re not getting any response,” BFF Bikes owner Gillian Forsyth told CBS Chicago on Monday. “And I’m not blaming the police or anything – I’m sure they have…