Getting environmental justice can take decades. Just ask the folks in the working-class neighborhood of Little Village, who for years have endured the terrible stench emanating from the Collateral Channel, a slip of water that juts out from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
They’re still waiting for a solution. The federal Environmental Protection Agency is now involved, and should deliver one, as speedily as possible. Because given how long residents have lived with the problem, it’s hard to disagree with what the then-executive director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization said 10 years ago:
