The plans for this storage facility come after much controversy. In July of 2021, The developer Hilco opened a Target distribution center on the site of the botched implosion of a coal plant that sent smoke and particulate matter in the air during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. Community activists opposed the opening of this warehouse, fearing it would bring more diesel trucks and air pollution into an already industrial area with high rates of asthma.

Reset learns what this will mean for Little Village residents.

GUESTS: José Acosta-Cordova, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Brett Chase, reporter for Chicago Sun-Times