Feds Tell City: Don’t Issue General Iron Permit Until Civil Rights Investigation Is Completed – Block Club Chicago

The complaint alleges the city deepened housing segregation by allowing polluting industry to cluster on the Southeast Side over decades. Federal officials have found the complaint — which argues RMG’s Southside Recycling operation would cause “serious and irreparable injury” to residents of surrounding neighborhoods — to be “persuasive."

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