The owner of a scrap-metal business barred from opening on the Southeast Side because of air pollution and health concerns is set to argue before a city administrative judge April 21 that it should be allowed to operate.
In February, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady denied the permit for the rebranded and relocated General Iron business. Arwady said the car and metal-shredding operation — completely built at East 116th Street along the Calumet River — posed “an inherently dangerous activity in a vulnerable community area” that is already stressed with pollution.
