Word: altgeld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name Altgeld Gardens evokes images of brilliant flowers rampant in golden sunlight. But if you follow your nose into the black ghetto on the Far South Side of Chicago, it will lead you to a dilapidated housing project built atop a former landfill whose fetid odors still rise from the basements after more than 60 years. The plight of nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should...
Tens of thousands of impoverished people -- mainly blacks and other minorities -- living in the countless Altgeld Gardens and Forest Glens in the inner cities and rural pockets of the nation are the victims of what critics call environmental racism. The victimizers are mainly waste-management firms and local politicians hoping to attract revenues to their towns. They need cheap land where they can dispose of garbage and build air-contaminating incinerators. That all too often means land in poor areas with large minority populations. And those people, burdened by drugs, poverty, crime, bad medical care and joblessness, have long been...
...Altgeld Gardens, Hazel Johnson has organized a movement called People for Community Recovery, which has successfully crusaded against the establishment of yet another neighborhood landfill...