Climate Justice
Redevelopment ahead for Chicago’s two coal plant sites
Chicago Tribune, Jule Wernau. When Chicago’s last two coal plants shut down two years ago, residents who had lived amid the plants’ pollution were still angry. “You killed my mother,” one woman told the president of Midwest Generation, the coal plants’ owner, at a hearing to determine how to redevelop the sites. Residents in Pilsen […]
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The goal of this project is to improve the environmental quality on this section of the Chicago River System and to make it a cherished public amenity.
The Pilsen-Little Village River Corridor Project was established in 2014 to develop a master plan that will result in a healthier, more accessible Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal corridor from Bubbly Creek to west of Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side. It is the goal of this project not only to improve the environmental quality […]
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The intent of this project is to view this long segmented section of the river as a single unit and remediate the damage.
The Pilsen-Little Village River Corridor Project was established in 2014 to develop a master plan that will result in a healthier, more accessible Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal corridor from Bubbly Creek to west of Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side. It is the goal of this project not only to improve the environmental quality […]
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