November 4, 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."
The same response is echoed by dozens of people living near the shuttered Kerr-McGee factory, many of whom these days are Latino.
They say no one explained that, during ongoing cleanups that began in the 1980s, the site has been used as a temporary holding facility for contaminated dirt.
No one told them that studies have shown elevated cancer rates in the area.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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