We started this journey thinking we were alone, however we soon discovered this threat of Light Industrial Warehouse & Distribution Centers is invading all of our communities. Sign the petition which can help your representatives understand your priorities.

Developing farmland to build warehouse/distribution centers next to our parks, schools, Forest Preserves and neighborhoods is a BAD IDEA. Families live, breathe and get their drinking water from the wells and streams from the underground aquafer’s. This type of development would be a catastrophic move for our community.
As seen in the Chicago Tribune, “Chicago is 3rd in the nation of diesel pollution deaths.” Developers are looking at the suburbs to build bigger with less regulation. Their goal is to make a profitable deal. This would impose on our health, damage to our roads and the contaminate water supplies and will hurt all of us. Economic growth at the expense of people who live here isn’t growth, it’s a transfer of wealth from residents to the developers.

Who will want to travel to this community and spend their tax dollars when more and more trees are cut down making it less attractive to dine, shop, play, spend time outside, not to mention the increasing frustration with increased traffic at ever stop light?

The profits and tax revenue promised from distribution transfer centers come at the expense of those who’ve invested their lives and children’s futures. Towns have fallen for empty promises, poor working conditions, high turnover rates, damaged roads and concrete industrial landscapes.

There are dangerous health consequences from breathing small particulate matter emitted from diesel fumes directly impacting those in surrounding neighborhoods, schools and parks where we walk and play. There is a direct correlation with increased cancer rates, lung damage and respiratory disease as the diesel soot rising in the air or settles into our lakes, drinking water recharge zones. Many will be impacted living along Jelke Creek and Fox River from Dundee to Elgin.