It appears that the Chicago city government doesn’t care much for the 25,000 illegals who have come to the city in the last seven months. With no room in any of the city-run shelters, Mayor Brandon Johnson hatched a plan to construct a tent city that could hold 2,000 people.
The state authorized the funding and Governor J.B. Pritzker signed off on the plan. Johnson chose a 16-acre site in Brighton Park, permits were let, and the only thing remaining before the governor approved the project was an environmental impact inspection.
What the scientists found was unsettling, to say the least.
Soil testing found mercury, arsenic, lead, manganese and a chemical used in PVC…. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, “these contaminants were detected at levels that require cleanup to protect human health, according to a nearly 800-page report City Hall released late Friday evening.”
When confronted with the fact that Johnson was trying to place people with families in what amounted to a toxic waste dump, the mayor said that the city had removed most of the dangerous chemicals and the site was now fit for human habitation.
Not so fast, said Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The governor had the city’s…
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