A photo of General Iron Industries on the North Side of Chicago taken on May 16, 2009.
Patrick Houdek
A photo of General Iron Industries on the North Side of Chicago taken on May 16, 2009.
Patrick Houdek
Metal-shredding recycler General Iron recently closed its operations in Lincoln Park on the North Side after more than a century. The company is now awaiting a final permit from the city to start setting up shop further south — but some residents are pushing back.
Reset brings on two community activists to discuss the area’s continuous battle for less industry and more clean air, which has culminated into a growing hunger strike.
GUESTS: Melany Flores, community activist
Audrey Harding, fundraising director at United Neighbors of the 10th Ward
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