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Dispatches from a Pandemic: This Chicago neighborhood was already combating air pollution when the coronavirus pandemic hit it hard

On April 11, the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, a 145-foot smokestack was demolished in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, spreading brown dust over a major cultural and economic corridor — and a COVID-19 hotspot in one of America’s hardest-hit cities. For nearly 90 years the smokestack had …

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