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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,…