Chicago is perpetuating environmental child abuse by pushing industrial polluters from the wealthy, largely white North Side to low-income communities of kids of color on the South Side effecting their ability to grow up in a clean neighborhood.

Environmental activists filed a federal civil rights complaint against the city arguing the city deepened housing segregation by allowing polluting industry to cluster on the Southeast Side over decades.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s health officials said that they should have let the community know before issuing an air pollution control permit General Iron — one of two permits needed to allow it to operate a metal shredder on the Southeast Side — considering the “sensitive” nature of the project which is opposed by many local groups. Yet everything is still in motion

The controversial metal scrapper currently neighbors the site of the $6 billion Lincoln Yards mega development and plans to move to 11600 S. Burley Ave., blocks from George Washington elementary and high schools.

The city’s General Iron deal sparked the complaint, as all Fair Housing Act complaints must address be filed within one year of a specific incident of alleged housing discrimination.

But the complaint’s intent is broader than any one company, activists said. It aims to go beyond address unequal burdens of pollution and industry in neighborhoods across the city.

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