Time and again, it seems, we’re finding out that City Hall fell down on the job when it comes to health-related environmental issues and keeping our air and drinking water safe.
There’s the snail’s pace in replacing lead water service connections, a long-standing problem that, as this Editorial Board has noted, other cities have dealt with more swiftly. Then, there’s the fumbling of the 2020 Crawford coal plant smokestack implosion that left Little Village covered in a cloud of dust.
