The more time passes, the more we learn about the foul-ups and outright negligence that led to Little Village being carpeted in hazardous dust following a 2020 coal plant demolition.
In the latest round — courtesy of an Aug. 5 story by Brett Chase, the Sun-Times’ environmental reporter — a since-retired city employee warned his boss in writing seven months in advance that imploding the giant smokestack at the former Crawford Generating Station at 3501 S. Pulaski Rd. could cause “almost cataclysmic” harm.
