East Chicago Residents Search For Answers About Their Health
It’s a Thursday, not a Sunday, but the First Baptist Church in East Chicago is open for business. The president of the state’s NAACP is...
EPA Response In East Chicago Typical For Soil Contamination
Government officials first found high levels of lead and arsenic at an East Chicago lead smelting plant in 1985. Thirty years later,...
MAP: EPA Named East Chicago A Superfund Site, But What Does It Mean?
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program was started in 1980, and since its inception, it has added 49 sites in Indiana to...
East Chicago School, Families Face Challenges After Lead Discovery
Latasha Marshall waits for a cab. She sits in the lobby of a Hilton Garden Inn, which serves as her living room this week. The...
East Chicago Residents Want More Time, Help To Move From Lead-Tainted Homes
The West Calumet neighborhood in East Chicago, Ind. is a federally designated clean-up site — a Superfund. Its soil contains lead and...
East Chicago Schools receive disaster relief funds
East Chicago, Indiana’s school district has received a $3 million state disaster relief loan to make an abandoned middle school suitable...
West Calumet Residents File Lawsuit To Halt Relocation
Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex are suing local officials as well as the private companies responsible for cleaning the...
Gubernatorial Candidates Weigh In On Lead Contamination
Gubernatorial candidate John Gregg accuses the state government of not doing enough when it comes to East Chicago’s lead contamination...
Residents Disappointed Lead Issue Not Addressed By City Coucil
East Chicago is grappling with a lead contamination crisis in the city’s Calumet neighborhood. Some local residents were disappointed the...
Schools Don't Currently Have Protocol For Lead Contamination
An East Chicago elementary school next to a lead contamination site has relocated to a former middle school across the city. It’s a...
