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Angela McGhee didn’t trust the purity of the water flowing from the faucets of her Chatham home. So she signed up for a city program that replaced her lead pipe connecting to a city water main. (Anthony Vazquez / Sun-Times)

Angela McGhee never trusted the tap water flowing from the faucets of her more than century-old home. 

The 50-year-old Chatham resident gets her drinking water from store-bought bottles because she suspected her tap water might contain high levels of brain-damaging lead.