Changing face of a neighborhood – Were Latinos left in the dark about thorium contamination? – West Chicago
Tagged: Chicago, children, Illinois, radioPosted on: November 4th, 2007
Whites flee radioactive cleanup site, replaced by Hispanics. And all say they were left in the dark about thorium problem that’s plagued the area for decades.
In the 17 years since she moved to her West Chicago home and raised three children, no one told Olivia Reza that much of her neighborhood had been excavated to remove cancer-causing radioactive thorium.
“It worries us,” Reza said in Spanish. “We wouldn’t have moved here if we knew.”"*
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Community, Eye Openers, Health
Comments
